'Good without God' billboards now up in Sacramento...

http://www.examiner.com/x-8947-LA-Atheism-Examiner~y2010m2d11-Good-without-God-billboards-now-up-in-Sacramento ^ | Feb 11th, 2010

[TaraP]

"Are you good without God? Millions are" is the message on 10 new billboards in the Sacramento, CA area. The billboards, which are part of a nationwide campaign that began last year, were put up by the Sacramento Area Coalition of Reason. It's an umbrella organization for a variety of groups including the First Atheist Church of True Science, Humanist Association of the Greater Sacramento Area, Sacramento Area Skeptics, and Atheists and Other Freethinkers.

Sponsors of the "good without God" billboards say it's not an attack on theism but, instead, a message directed to their own community.

"It's a way of reaching out to people," said Fred Edwords, national director of United Coalition of Reason (quoted in the Sacramento Bee). "Many folks who think like us think they are the only ones." "We non-theists are your family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers," said Rachael Harrington, coordinator of the Sacramento group, in a news release. "We're just like you, except we don't believe in a supreme being. It's about time we were equally free to be open about our views."

[TaraP]

People are not *GOOD* We are all Wretched Flawed Sinners in need of redemption..

Jesus said who is GOOD...

MARK 10:18

Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.

[a fool in paradise]

Are you healthy without exercise? Millions are.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Maybe somebody can put up billboards with Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and Hitler labeled “BAD WITHOUT GOD”.

[Pegita]

"We're just like you, except we don't believe in a supreme being. It's about time we were equally free to be open about our views."

2 PETER 3

8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

[a fool in paradise]

"Good" is a moral evaluation. So by what standard do they make the definitive claim that millions are "good"?

2004 Interview: Obama Talks about Jesus, Heaven and Sin June 3, 2008 (CBN)

GG: Do you believe in sin?

OBAMA: Yes.

GG: What is sin?

OBAMA: Being out of alignment with my values.

GG: What happens if you have sin in your life?

OBAMA: I think it’s the same thing as the question about heaven. In the same way that if I’m true to myself and my faith that that is its own reward, when I’m not true to it, it’s its own punishment.”

[Ben Mugged]

I wonder what drives their need to convince others that there is no God?

[i_dont_chat]

Good without God is simply “0”.

[MarkeyD]

We need some “Good without Obama” billboards.

[a fool in paradise]

Fundamentalist Atheism

[HiTech RedNeck]

What a flim flam.

[a fool in paradise]

Charitable Without Socialism!

[Allegra]

"Are you good without God? Millions are"...

Well, bless their little pointy heads.

I hope they like the weather nice and hot. ;-)

[highlander_UW]

I must have missed that interview at the time.

OBAMA: I think it’s the same thing as the question about heaven. In the same way that if I’m true to myself and my faith that that is its own reward, when I’m not true to it, it’s its own punishment.”

There is firm proof he's not a Christian. That's a humanist response, not a Christian one.

[sniper63]

"So is Jeffery Dahlmer "good" if he thinks so from his personal preference?"

He's goo dand dead now, thanks to some fellow prisoners who saw what he really was......

[TaraP]

EVIL DOES.....

We are now in a *Battle* of all battles...

SATAN VS GOD...For the Souls of MAN...

Of course we know GOD wins, but many men won’t...

This is why GOD is so patient, and why we as Christians have to do the will of GOD, because GOD desires that none perish in these very perilous times on earth....

[Ben Mugged]

Seems to me they are trying to get the message out that "you are not alone in your beliefs".

Ironically the same message as the Bible.

[mrs. a]

“Are you good without God? Millions are”

I suppose they are...for the moment...

[HarleyD]

Good without God???

By whose standards?

[dfwgator]

He's goo dand dead now, thanks to some fellow prisoners who saw what he really was......

Even prisoners have standards.

[highlander_UW]

He's goo dand dead now, thanks to some fellow prisoners who saw what he really was......

That's a shame...it should have been done by the "justice" system.