Posted on 03/04/2022 6:49:54 PM PST by marshmallow
‘The only way we can have streets that are welcoming to all is if all religions can equally go through them and be on them without feeling like they are less than.’
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Standing atop an approximately 8-foot-high ladder, Evan Clark tugged at a sign tightly nailed to a utility pole on the intersection of Echo Park and Bellevue avenues, just beyond the 101 freeway ramps.
The sign quoted John 14:6, and as Clark spun and pulled it to loosen it from the pole, a man in a car shouted, “The way. The truth. The life!,” quoting the words from the Bible verse emblazoned on the placard Clark was trying to take down. The man, Clark said, likely assumed he was placing the sign, not removing it.
“People put a lot of passion behind these signs and their messages and ideas about Jesus and God,” Clark said. “I don’t like to be confrontational about any of that. I just wanted to do this as a casual thing to keep our streets secular.”
Clark is part of the Atheist Street Pirates, a team of lookouts who track and occasionally take down illegally placed religious material on public streets and overpasses around the city of Los Angeles and neighborhoods in the county. They’re a subset of the LA-based Atheists United, a nonprofit that’s been in the city for nearly 40 years and that seeks to “empower people to express secular values and promote separation of government and religion.”
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What about the ones that say “Caliph Baraq is my homeboy” ??
Evil.
No other word for it.
Atheist pirates? In the City of Angels? Removing religious signs?
Something tells me these morons haven’t thought their plan completely through.
Does he have a problem with the name of the city, too? And all of those cities that start out with San or Santa?
What does Los Angeles mean? Asking for a friend.
Do and it gets done.
One main reason why I moved out of LA 18 years ago was that the city took the cross off the seal that showed the mission. I guess they’ll have to change the name of Los Angeles to Los Diablos.
How eloquently hypocritical. Nature abhors a vacuum, and forbidding all religious expression implicitly means there is no need for dependence upon Deity nor gratitude to the same, thus promoting atheism.
“Secular values”. I’ve heard of these. They’re collectively called “humanism”, a belief that man is just an animal with no spiritual aspect. I think the Pope shares it.
LA-based Atheists United, a nonprofit that’s been in the city for nearly 40 years and that seeks to “empower people to express secular values
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Secular Humanism IS a religion.
Wonder how much the CEO salary of this non profit is.
Ban all Atheist!
These fatheads don’t under stand the difference between freedom OF and freedom FROM.
Just like the whole separation of church and state misinterpretation. A city putting up a cross is NOT Congress Enacting a National Religion.
The City of the Queen of Angels.
True atheists don’t care.
These are anti-Christian bigots!
Suppressing the truth in unrighteousness. Been done before. Maybe God will teach him a lesson or let him go as far away from God as possible. Eternally.
They’re so threatened by Christianity that it kills them to have to see any of it on display. Now just what biblical character does that remind us of?
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King Herod.
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