Comments on: A Strategically Placed Atheist Billboard

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:48:19 +0000

@Anthony:
Ever heard of the Treaty of Tripoli? Signed 1796 between the US and the Barbary States. So very early in the country’s history.
In article 11 it says “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”

How much clearer do you want to get? The thing was signed by John Adams himself. So the intent of the founding father’s should be pretty obvious. It’s also obvious from the Declaration of Independence which in deistic fashion only mentions a general “creator” and the constitution, which doesn’t mention god at all.

And freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion. Yet, for the past few decades Christians have very deliberately infiltrated and undermined the political process everywhere and try to get all laws changed according to their rules. That’s exactly what wasn’t supposed to happen, because those people clearly saw the harm organized religion did in Europe.

In addition to that we have the constant proselytizing by Christians (like you here). If your god is so great and awesome, why don’t his believers shut it up and just wait for everyone to see the light?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:22:17 +0000

It’s ironic that the same God who everyone on this site seems to hate so much is the same God whose Word this nation was founded on – and that Word guarantees the freedom of religion and speech that folks are exercising right now! God doesn’t force anyone to believe in him or his personal revelation of himself in Jesus Christ, he merely puts the offer out there for anyone. Agreed, some Christians are wrong to think religion can be enforced by the state (indeed, this is what Islamic countries do). But don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater! God is still there, still loving, and still offers freedom to his creatures to believe whatever they want. It’s just that at the end of this life, they had better be ready to give an account for those beliefs.

By: martymankins

martymankins — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:34:25 +0000

Great billboard. Love it. Of course, there will be those that don’t.

Louis Bowman would turn in his grave to see this.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:44:23 +0000

I like it!

Cheers and Excelsior!

By: muggle

muggle — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:02:16 +0000

Great billboard!

By: Hypatia's Daughter

Hypatia's Daughter — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:48:41 +0000

While I like most of the atheist billboards, I think the ones that quote the Constitution (“We, the People….”) and this one are especially effective and to the point.
Bob, maybe you can’t teach a sneach, but you can often enlighten the fence sitters who will only get their info from the deluded & the liars.
Alas, Americans so frequently say things like “Well, I don’t really care but if the Constitution says we’re a Christian nation….”. When you point out God is not mentioned at all in the Constitution, they do a “Whoa, I didn’t know that!”
Shameful, though, that so many Americans don’t read that amazing document that only takes 20-30 minutes to read and is written in plain simple English.

By: Skippy

Skippy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:38:23 +0000

There is a North Carolina Secular Association and I just registered for it! Who knew? I’ve been a daily reader of Hemant’s blog for the last few months and really enjoy it.

By: KM

KM — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:55:29 +0000

Just a question, but why are people so occupied with what some “founding fathers” several hundred years ago might have wanted or intended?

It doesn’t matter what they wanted. It’s the country of todays generation.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:28:47 +0000

Lagunatic Says:
Yay!

But, as you can well expect, some of the comments from the peanut gallery are eyerollable at best.

http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/96900729.html?commentPage=2

I also noticed that in the video they didn’t mention even once that they were simply using the pre 1954 wording of the pledge, not making up a new one as the title and reporter seem to suggest

But going by the comment section on that page it probably wouldn’t have made much of a difference

And seriously what is it with some people using caps to emphases every other word

By: Trace

Trace — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:05:05 +0000

Hi Lagunatic, it has been a while.