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Starman
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Sweden
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 Posted - 02/12/2008 : 02:22:59
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Battle of the Chambersburg billboards The new billboard, posted on Thursday, is sponsored by "In God We Trust," a national advocacy group based in Arlington, Va. It poses the question: "Why Do Atheists Hate America?"
The sign depicts a child saluting the U.S. flag and includes the Web site: InGodWeTrustUSA.org.
The new billboard is in response to the sign, "Imagine No Religion," that was posted before Christmas.
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When asked about the question, "Why do atheists hate America?" Nedd gave a quick reply: "That's what we're trying to figure out. We don't know the answer." |
[Edited to fix link in quote - Dave W.]
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"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 02/12/2008 : 04:17:34 [Permalink]
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Comparing the two messages of the billboards, a better question might be: "Why are theists so paranoid?"
But no matter, In God We Trust is little more than a lunatic fringe split off from the Episcopals, who were probably glad to see them go. | The Episcopal Missionary Church (EMC) is a Continuing Anglican church body in the United States and a member of the Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas. Its founding in the early 1990s can be traced to the protests of members of The Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA) who were concerned that their church had become massively influenced by secular humanism (i.e., liberal theologies). At first, these clergy and laypersons sought to change the direction of their church by working from within it, to which end they formed a voluntary association, the "Episcopal Synod of America." |
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
~~ John Lennon, en pace resquiat
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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recurve boy
Skeptic Friend
Australia
53 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 06:20:44 [Permalink]
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| I like the quotes page. 1) They weren't brave enough to link directly to the ffrf.org page. 2) The quotes make more sense than the ingodwetrust.com rant. Still. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/12/2008 : 07:26:38 [Permalink]
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Y'know, it's always struck me as kind'a funny, not to come right out and say: asinine!, that almost every time any of these far-right fools want to advertise how evil someone they don't like might be, they use the "XXXX HATES AMERICA" nonsense. Why is that, I wonder.
I would never state that Council Nedd hates America, but that he only despises what it and it's Constitution stand for.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that paranoia goes with the theist territory; the ones that are the most vocal, at any rate. Think about it; an ogre in the sky is said to watch everything we, as individuals, do/say/think & so forth, and will give us our comeuppance in due course. And that, brothers & sisters, ain't gonna be pretty. Yeesh, if I believed such shit, I'd be raving from a pulpit or hiding in a prayer closet, too!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Ricky
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Dave W.
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the_ignored
SFN Addict
2562 Posts |
 Posted - 02/12/2008 : 12:06:42 [Permalink]
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Anyone check out the address for that ingodwetrust group?
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1934 Old Gallows Road, Suite 350, Vienna, VA 22182-4050
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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perrodetokio
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 02/12/2008 : 12:16:39 [Permalink]
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I´ve just read the link above and I agree completely with those atheists´opinions. Are the IGWT people shooting their selves in the foot by publishing such rational and logical opinions from atheists? Hmmmm.
Cheers!
perro de tokio |
"Yes I have a belief in a creator/God but do not know that he exists." Bill Scott
"They are still mosquitoes! They did not turn into whales or lizards or anything else. They are still mosquitoes!..." Bill Scott
"We should have millions of missing links or transition fossils showing a fish turning into a philosopher..." Bill Scott |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 02/12/2008 : 13:11:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by the_ignored
Anyone check out the address for that ingodwetrust group?
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1934 Old Gallows Road, Suite 350, Vienna, VA 22182-4050
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I can get there in about 20 minutes, from home.
Old Gallows Road is only about two blocks long. And it doesn't even connect directly anymore to the many-miles-long Gallows Road, you need to take Gallows Branch Road to get from one to the other. WTF is a Gallows Branch?
Old Courthouse Road is also close by.
That whole area is now dominated by shopping malls (scroll North), not judicial buildings. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/12/2008 : 13:19:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by the_ignored
Anyone check out the address for that ingodwetrust group?
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1934 Old Gallows Road, Suite 350, Vienna, VA 22182-4050
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I can get there in about 20 minutes, from home.
Old Gallows Road is only about two blocks long. And it doesn't even connect directly anymore to the many-miles-long Gallows Road, you need to take Gallows Branch Road to get from one to the other. WTF is a Gallows Branch?
Old Courthouse Road is also close by.
That whole area is now dominated by shopping malls (scroll North), not judicial buildings.
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Wow! I used to work in an office building in Vienna on Gallows Rd. I know that area (Tyson's Corner) quite well.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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