The “controversial” atheist sign displayed adjacent to a nativity scene in the Olympia, Washington capitol building1 was stolen on Friday. It resurfaced later at a right-wing radio station in Seattle.
I’m so incredibly tired of the double standards. Humanists put up, for the first time ever, a pro-humanism ad on Washington DC metro buses, and Christian haters explode. I’ve been using the DC metro for about eight years now, and I’ve seen dozens of pro-Christian ads on these very same buses. “Need Healing? Come pray with us!” That sort of stuff. On the buses, in the metro, in the free “news” papers (even the liberal-slanting Express (a derivative of The Washington Post) has a pro-Christian ad in it nearly every week), on billboards, on television, everywhere! You can’t escape it. Do you have cable? Flip around some weekend and see if you can get through all of your channels without hitting at least one or two religious oriented shows.
What, essentially, the religious opposition to atheist and humanist signs is saying is that Christians should have a monopoly on dissemination of any form of potentially influential information. Bullshit.
Anyway, the stolen sign read:
(image from FFRF)
At this season of the Winter Solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
The Supreme Court has even held that if a public entity (like the state capitol) allows one religious display, it cannot then discriminate against any other viewpoint, even nonbelief.
When will this blatant discrimination end? When we get some rational people in the government.
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Here are some interesting videos on the topic:
Fox News says (of course) to treat Atheists like Trolls
(Although this next one is a Billo the Clown excerpt, it’s worth watching for Megyn Kelly)
And, of course, I have to throw in some Olbermann.
FFRF Links:
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- Care of Dan Barker, of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. http://www.ffrf.org/news/2008/reasonsgreetings_madison.php [<]
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I like seeing somebody giving shit to Bill O’Reilly. That was excellent! I’m sure she doesn’t share my opinion of religion, but I will give her kudos for not only defending free speech but telling Bill-O that he doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about. She should make appearances more often.
I wonder if Megyn Kelly is single: Wow, those looks and that mind!
The sign stealing is just stupid. On the good side, stealing the sign probably massively increased the exposure of the message. It seems like more and more the atheistic message is being publisized.