Dear Atheist Santa...

Evolution News and Views ^ | December 3, 2014 | Michael Egnor

[Heartlander]

"Dear Atheist Santa... "

Michael Egnor December 3, 2014 11:47 AM | Permalink

The Brights are feeling the holiday spirit. As the Telegraph reports, "American Atheists launch provocative campaign in religious Deep South":

Atheist activists are taking their campaigns to the Bible Belt this Christmas with a provocative billboard campaign that is expected to stir controversy in America's religious heartlands.

The giant advertising hoardings in the Tennessee cities of Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis and Fort Smith, Arkansas show a mischievous-looking young girl writing her letter to Father Christmas: "Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is to skip church! I'm too old for fairy tales," she writes.

The advertising campaign by the American Atheists group will run until Christmas Eve and is the first time the group has aimed its anti-God adverts directly at residential religious areas, having previously targeted urban audiences in big venues such as Times Square in New York.

"Today's adults have no obligation to pretend to believe the lies their parents believed. It's OK to admit that your parents were wrong about God, and it's definitely OK to tell your children the truth," said David Silverman, the group's president, as he launched the campaign.

In a sign of the hostility the adverts are expected to generate, American Atheists said that it had failed to secure a single billboard site in Jackson, Mississippi after leasing companies collectively refused to offer space, fearing a community backlash.

I suspect the reluctance of billboard companies to offer space to the atheist elves is due less to fear of community backlash than concern about traffic accidents when the good folks of Mississippi burst out laughing while driving.

Here's a suggested caption for a Christmas billboard, right next to the atheist one:

Dear Atheist Santa, What I want for Christmas is an explanation. All of my Christmas gifts are designed and are given to me by someone who loves me. None of my Christmas gifts happen by themselves. So why am I wrong to believe that my life is a much bigger gift, which is given to me by Someone who loves me, too?

[secret garden]

I LOVE the idea and message of the corresponding billboard.

[sodpoodle]

I believe the last line is: “I don’t believe in fairy tales”.

So the child actually believes there is a Santa??

Dumb and dumber!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The best response to this would be to show some middle class, if unkempt, but otherwise miserable looking people, with caption:

“What are atheists always so unhappy?”

Some icing on the cake would be that two of the miserable looking people looked somewhat like Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander, and maybe some political figures.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Atheists are not thinking human beings, they are haters. Why would thinking human beings try to influence children to turn on their beliefs at Christmas if they cared about anything except their own personal delusions? They are slobs.