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In LA, ‘Atheist Pirates’ Remove Religious Signs from Public Streets and Overpasses
Religion News Service ^ | 3/3/22 | Alejandra Molina

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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TOPICS: Current Events; Religion & Culture; Skeptics/Seekers
KEYWORDS: antifa; atheiststreetpirates; atheistsunited; evanclark
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To: HighSierra5

Los Angles has simply become Lost.


21 posted on 03/04/2022 8:06:29 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reg45

Yet God has many people there.


22 posted on 03/04/2022 8:11:16 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Species8472

I’d like to see them try that atheist stuff with a mosque.


23 posted on 03/04/2022 8:16:12 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: marshmallow

“Causal thing” = a thief and a vandal


24 posted on 03/04/2022 8:18:55 PM PST by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

I guess he’d better not move to Corpus Christi, TX or Damascus, MD.


25 posted on 03/04/2022 8:29:49 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He could be busy for years if he didn’t mind moving around a lot.


26 posted on 03/04/2022 8:53:39 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: BenLurkin

The signs they are removing are illegally placed.

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27 posted on 03/04/2022 8:58:29 PM PST by Mears ( )
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To: Mears

That doesn’t make targeting them any less evil.


28 posted on 03/04/2022 9:02:31 PM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Species8472

Boy that’s the truth.

It would be an interesting experiment to see if they would take down something Islamic too... or if they would limit their censorship just to Christianity.


29 posted on 03/04/2022 9:08:16 PM PST by Sarcazmo
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To: marshmallow

Fighting a God that they claim to not even believe in….

It’s utter insanity if they’re right.

It’s utter insanity if they’re wrong.


30 posted on 03/05/2022 5:11:37 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: joethedrummer

Exactly right. I enjoy pointing out to them how absurd it is to hate and expend so much energy fighting something that doesn’t exist. Then congratulate them on their faith in God’s existence.


31 posted on 03/05/2022 5:20:40 AM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: marshmallow

For atheist’s they sure do fear signs of God.


32 posted on 03/05/2022 5:24:07 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: marshmallow

Feral people doing feral things in the city of angles.

If something is right make a new angle about it


33 posted on 03/05/2022 8:30:41 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Does he have a problem with the name of the city, too? And all of those cities that start out with San or Santa?

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Just wait until they find out what Corpus Christi means.


34 posted on 03/05/2022 4:07:29 PM PST by Graybeard58 (`)
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To: Graybeard58

Or the Sangre de Cristo Mountains .


35 posted on 03/05/2022 5:36:07 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: marshmallow

At the moment these people die, they will have to answer for their misdeeds to Jesus himself.


36 posted on 03/05/2022 5:54:36 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: No name given

Right up there with the chief priests; but Pilate - OTOH...

John 19:21-23

21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but only that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’ ”
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His garments into four parts, one for each soldier, with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.


37 posted on 11/16/2023 1:00:28 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: HighSierra5

“I guess they’ll have to change the name of Los Angeles to Los Diablos.”

Thread winner!!!


38 posted on 11/16/2023 1:30:30 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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