Atheist Billboards Go Up in Wichita, Kansas

Your proof that atheists are immoral and harmful to humanity: http://online.worldmag.com/2012/03/28/richard-dawkins-encourages-atheists-to-mock-and-ridicule-christians/

Nah, not in Wichita…never…

http://www.tomscott.com/stupidfight/#hemantmehta-vs-pzmyers

Heh heh. That’s fun. Thanks for the link.

Whether it be Kansas or New York City, places are never strictly one thing or another.  Given the cultural climate of Kansas, I suspect there are many free thinkers who keep a low profile as a matter of self preservation.

If you really believe that, then you’d have to accept that it also applies to a great number of religious people who do far worse, to atheists and to each other.  Mocking beliefs has been a religious tradition for millenia.

Billboard looks great!  Way to go Wichita  Coalition of Reason.  Isn’t Westboro Baptist near Wichita?  I suppose we will hear some BS comment from them pretty soon about this.

I would love to see some of these popping up here in “Louisiana’s Other Side”

Looking that good is what you get for living a sinful lifestyle.

When was the last time a religion has sacked a city? Seriously. Why are we comparing what happened centuries ago to today. Also, try not to look at the outliers. An extremist is named so because they do not fit the prototypical mold. To say that this religion is nuts based off the actions of an extremist is like doing an experiment with the sample size of 1 and then saying that you’ve discovered some important new discovery (like the team that thought they observed particles faster than the speed of light).

The reason I bring this gentleman up is he may also be an outlier of the atheist community, but he is looked up to as someone people inspire to be more like. 

The general population of Christians are not striving to become more like the WBC now are they?

On faith: Some time ago, at the Outer Banks, I watched pelicans skimming across the ocean in formation. Anyone who thinks such a thing of beauty is the result of time plus chance has a lot more faith than me. It says of King David, referring to God, that he “mused on the work of thy hands.” God has made His reality evident in the creation (Romans 1:20, Psalms 19 and 104:24 etc), but not everyone has “eyes to see and ears to hear.” Don’t fall into that category. In Christ, God has paid for the sin that separates us from Him. If you have a heart to know God, call upon Him, trust in Christ. Acts 2:21; John 3:16

 It is not that simple.  I do not have a problem with “god” because I do not believe “god” exists.  That would be like saying I have a problem with unicorns.  I have a problem with religions because they are the source of so much pain, suffering, bigotry, etc in the world today–and claim they are acting in the name of this non-existent “god”.

If you want to make up your own definitions for words like ‘dead’ then you can say pretty much whatever you want.

You might be saved with God, but you are also purple with God.

When was the last time religion flew a plane into a building?  Or killed a child because she was possessed by demons?  Or stoned a woman for being raped? Or tried to make someone feel guilty or scared because of what one particular books says?

Outliers?

When was the last time an atheist hurt anyone because no god told them to?

The problem with your outliers, is that they’re so far out there that by contrast, ‘everyone else’ can get away with some real crazy.  If the likes of Dawkins and PZ Myers are our extreme cases, then I’ll take a mocking over a stoning any day.

When has a Christian ever burned someone for not being a Christian? If I am not mistaken we are the ones who get persecuted for our beliefs all over the world. I feel sorry for people like you, and I pray that one day you will FEEL the power of Christ. It’s an something that cannot be explained only experienced. If you want to support these signs being put up that is your own right but it is also our right to spread the word. God help you! Regardless of your beliefs EVERYONE will have to answer to him. It’s not an opinion it is a fact.

What I don’t understand about you christian is, if you care a millionth as much about the less fortunate as you pretend to when you find it convenient, why do you keep regurgitating idiotic nonsense about atheists when you could be feeding the hungry? 

 Nathan,

I suggest you read some history.   Michael Servetus was burnt in Calvin’s Geneva for being a unitarian.   If you want to include hanging, then the Massachusetts Bay Colony hanged Quakers for being Quakers.    Christian pogroms against Jews (which included killing them sometimes by burning) happened throughout history.  It was also usual for the Inquisition to hand those found guilty of heresy or apostasy over to the secular authorities for burning or other form of execution (Cayetano Ripoll in 1826 who was hanged and then possibly burnt seems to have been the last). 

Because people keep trying to modify my behavior based solely on a particular interpretation of a particular god(s).  That’s it.  If you stopped using God to explain why some people shouldn’t get married, or on what days one can buy alcohol, or what decorations should go on public property, or what I should be promising to my county, or what should be written on my money, or what my kid should be taught in school.

If you want to tell me what to do or not to do, then have a good reason, not one from your God that I don’t believe in.  And I know, you’ll say you don’t.  Fact is, you do, you just don’t think of it because your Godly reasons are so ingrained into your psyche they’re as natural as tying your shoes.

(Edit- that first one is one heck of a train-of-thought-run-on, but I think you get the point)

Before I take the time, are you really interested in an answer, or are you just preaching?  You start with questions, but then end with statements that make me think you’re not really interested in hearing what any of us has to say.

We have thought about those questions.  Many on here came from deep faith, and fought to keep it.  Some of us have tried to find it.  I’m sure your concern is genuine, but it’s also nothing new to any of us.

Nope, never had faith.  I’ve believed in some crazy stuff, but once I figured out Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, there wasn’t any room for God either.

I’m happy that a belief in God helps you focus your life more positively.  From my point of view what you’re missing is that you expect everyone else to be the same way.  You can’t imagine a positive life with more than living for yourself without God.  I personally can’t imagine depending on a God I know doesn’t exist, but so be it.  The best we can do is to trust that the other person is being honest in presenting their view.

Do more good than harm.  Make the world a better place.  With or without God.

Nobody says you have to be a believer in order to be a good person.

Sadly, a lot of people do say that, which is a a large part of why atheists put up billboards.  I’m glad you don’t.