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Atheist Ads in Chicago Say Man Created God
ICR ^ | June 4, 2009 | Christine Dao

Posted on 06/04/2009 10:23:17 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Atheist Ads in Chicago Say Man Created God

by Christine Dao*

“In the beginning, man created God,” according to recent advertisements posted on 25 Chicago buses. The Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign targeted the country’s third largest city to espouse “the idea that man created God as well as all religions.”[1]

The ads were inspired by similar campaigns elsewhere, including...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: atheism; atheistbelievers; atheistreligion; atheists; belongsinreligion; catholic; christian; creation; darwincult; darwindrones; evolution; gagdadbob; intelligentdesign; materialistreligion; moralabsolutes; nonscience; notscience; onecosmos; removesciencekw; science; templeofdarwin; timetobangodgunsguts
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To: GodGunsGuts
A real A-thiest would be like the man who is A-political, and just holds no views on the subject. I have yet to meet any athiest who isn't really an "anti-thiest".

These people are roughly like an individual who, having taken a moral stand against the existance of breakfast, insists on pi$$ing on your waffles just to make a point.

21 posted on 06/04/2009 10:43:13 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
Anyone taking offense at mere words on a placard lacks beliefs worth honoring.


22 posted on 06/04/2009 10:43:15 AM PDT by Goldsborough
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To: Scarchin

I agree. They are boring me.


23 posted on 06/04/2009 10:43:32 AM PDT by svcw
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Can you prove that, or were you taught that mantra by the Temple of Darwin?


24 posted on 06/04/2009 10:43:44 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: WOBBLY BOB
God invented evolution. Man invented religion.

That's always been my take on it, too.
25 posted on 06/04/2009 10:44:00 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: 50sDad

So-called atheists are usually just ‘anti-Christian.’


26 posted on 06/04/2009 10:44:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (USM is Gator Bait! (Congrats to U-Dub!))
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To: MrB

I’m just tired of these folks acting as if they’ve just “discovered” something.

To me, it’s a reflection of the state of perpetual adolescence our culture entered into in the 1960s and continues to wallow in.

I regret to say that perhaps it will take a disaster (economic, terror?) to reintroduce adulthood to America.


27 posted on 06/04/2009 10:48:09 AM PDT by Scarchin (Obamanation = I feel like I'm stuck in a car with a drunk driver!)
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To: Scarchin

I always thought they were just lost.


28 posted on 06/04/2009 10:48:24 AM PDT by devistate one four (Back by popular demand: America love or leave it (GTFOOMC) TET68)
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To: GodGunsGuts

sorry, I’m not a Darwinist.


29 posted on 06/04/2009 10:48:33 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Goldsborough

I’m sure there wouldn’t be a peep of protest should we take out ads calling athiests a bunch of puss swilling sheep molestors either.


30 posted on 06/04/2009 10:52:40 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (When you put Democrats in charge, stupid things happen)
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To: Scarchin

My latest branch of study is into the “nothing new under the sun” concept.

There isn’t. The same arguments have occurred throughout human history. The same “worldly wisdom” vs its opposite, “Godly wisdom”.

Pilgrim’s Progress, written over 330 years ago, has a passage in it about “if you have faith, society will tell you you’re ignorant in the sciences”. And we have people today that think they’re so clever and hip to come up with the idea.


31 posted on 06/04/2009 10:53:15 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts; WOBBLY BOB; dfwgator; All

The Creator vs. The Scientist

God was sitting in heaven one day when a scientist said to Him, “God, we don’t need you anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing – in other words, we can now do what you did in the beginning.”

“Oh, is that so? Explain…” replies God. “Well,” says the scientist, “we can take dirt and form it into the likeness of you and breathe life into it, thus creating man.”

“Well, that’s very interesting… show Me.”

So the scientist bends down to the earth and starts to mold the soil into the shape of a man. “No, no, no…” interrupts God, “Get your own dirt.”

Just as man can’t see gravity, yet know that it is real, we may not see the Lord, but He is omnipotent, omnipotent, and omniscient.


32 posted on 06/04/2009 10:58:58 AM PDT by This Just In
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To: This Just In

Poor analogy. Gravity can be measured, and various gravitational theories can predict how it affects matter and energy to a precise degree. This is not the case with God, (if He/She/It even exists in the first place).


33 posted on 06/04/2009 11:04:20 AM PDT by GL of Sector 2814 (One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. -- R A Heinlein)
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To: GodGunsGuts
That's funny, my Bible says, "In the beginning God created..."
34 posted on 06/04/2009 11:06:56 AM PDT by ninergold3 ("Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?" -Mark Lowry)
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To: GunRunner

“Is it professing faith if I say Man created Odin, or Man created Jupiter?”

Depends on whether or not you believe it and why you believe it.

In short:

Too often, atheists scorn those who have faith in God but are unable to prove God’s existence, while at the same time the atheists say there is no God but they can’t prove it.

An atheist’s unprovable belief that there is no God is a matter of faith on the part of the atheist which weakens their attack on others who believe something based on faith.


35 posted on 06/04/2009 11:07:13 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

If these are city buses, I would like to know if they would allow Christian Adds on the buses to counter the lie.


36 posted on 06/04/2009 11:08:00 AM PDT by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: GodGunsGuts

That was right after man created the universe, I’m sure.

Or did we create God first, then the universe?


37 posted on 06/04/2009 11:08:19 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: KrisKrinkle
A true A-theist wouldn't express ANY opinion on the existance of God.

Only ANTI-theists feel that need. And in so doing, they are expressing their beliefs about God, ironically becoming theists, expressing a theology.

38 posted on 06/04/2009 11:09:38 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: GL of Sector 2814

The point is that you can’t see it, just as man can’t see air or wind. Scholars have confirmed the accuracy of God’s Word throughout history, just as they have confirmed the existence of Christ.

Whether or not a man chooses to believe in the Lord is another facet to the age old question, “Does God exist?”


39 posted on 06/04/2009 11:09:57 AM PDT by This Just In
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To: 50sDad

Holding no views on a subject, either the person is ignorant and not studied the issue in question, or is deliberately deciding NOT to investigate the issue and determine what is correct and what is not.

To be truly a-political is to either be ignorant of the facts, or to be ignorant of the facts on purpose. I can excuse the former, but not the latter. Especially when the latter is held up as somehow being more virtuous than the people who actually have a belief, whatever it may be.


40 posted on 06/04/2009 11:10:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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