Posted on 02/12/2010 11:47:26 AM PST by TaraP
"Are you good without God? Millions are" is the message on 10 new billboards in the Sacramento, CA area. The billboards, which are part of a nationwide campaign that began last year, were put up by the Sacramento Area Coalition of Reason. It's an umbrella organization for a variety of groups including the First Atheist Church of True Science, Humanist Association of the Greater Sacramento Area, Sacramento Area Skeptics, and Atheists and Other Freethinkers.
Sponsors of the "good without God" billboards say it's not an attack on theism but, instead, a message directed to their own community.
"It's a way of reaching out to people," said Fred Edwords, national director of United Coalition of Reason (quoted in the Sacramento Bee). "Many folks who think like us think they are the only ones." "We non-theists are your family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers," said Rachael Harrington, coordinator of the Sacramento group, in a news release. "We're just like you, except we don't believe in a supreme being. It's about time we were equally free to be open about our views."
I expect an earthquake soon.
Allrighty then.
Atheism is most definitely a religion and they are proselytizing.
Another poor oppressed minority...give me a break!
If humanity knew how truly good God is, then the entire idea that they can be good apart from Him would be seen as a hellish joke.
Infidels.
If God truly doesn’t exist, then they have nothing to worry about. They can do anything they want without answering to anyone. But.....God help them if they’re wrong.
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Most people just think they’re good.
I don’t believe them.
People balk at the idea of being heavenly.
In support of your post...
The question, in response to any proclamation of “goodness” is
“by whose standard?”
Does it mean they are happy/satisfied, without God? Or does it mean they are good people, even without God?
Funny thing is they dopn’t even know what *GOOD* is.
I am sure they think a Ravenous Homosexual who smokes Pot all day but works at the Soup Kitchen is *GOOD* millions like him are.....
Sad times..:(
Except that we are not EQUALLY free - Christianity is being (has been) assailed from all directions an in all quarters of life. It has gotten to the point where WE are not allowed to have any discussion in public regarding God, Jesus, the Bible, etc, without risking condemnation or even arrest (e.g., the man arrested for talking about God to three people in a Mall in an area where such "free speech" was suppose to be permitted).
"Good" is a moral evaluation. So by what standard do they make the definitive claim that millions are "good"? Given the rejection of an objective moral authority all they can do is appeal to their personal preference. So is Jeffery Dahlmer "good" if he thinks so from his personal preference?
It is sickening that the atheists have successfully hijacked the terms “humanists” and “reason”.
Their obvious insinuation is that only the dweebs, the contemptible, the feckless “need God” to be “good.” The rest just go on boldly “being good.” It’s the devil’s old fantasy.
I’m just curious, if you were an atheist why would you spend tens of thousands of dollars promoting atheism unless you were against God and people that choose to worship?
Seems to me that in California and Sacramento we’ve seen exactly where this has gotten them.
You have a bankrupt state, promotion of legalized drugs, destruction of the nuclear family by government intervention of more kinds than I can count, hordes of illegal aliens draining the system that “must” be supported because of “humanitarian” concerns and promotion of homosexual marriage and liestyle (Yes, that is not a typo.).
It seems to me that millions of people are not okay without God and instead placing their values on the goodwill and subjective morality of humanists.
People are not *GOOD* We are all Wretched Flawed Sinners in need of redemption..
Jesus said who is GOOD...
MARK 10:18
Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.
Are you healthy without exercise? Millions are.
Maybe somebody can put up billboards with Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and Hitler labeled “BAD WITHOUT GOD”.
2 PETER 3
8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2004 Interview: Obama Talks about Jesus, Heaven and Sin June 3, 2008 (CBN)
GG: Do you believe in sin?OBAMA: Yes.
GG: What is sin?
OBAMA: Being out of alignment with my values.
GG: What happens if you have sin in your life?
OBAMA: I think it’s the same thing as the question about heaven. In the same way that if I’m true to myself and my faith that that is its own reward, when I’m not true to it, it’s its own punishment.”
I wonder what drives their need to convince others that there is no God?
Good without God is simply “0”.
We need some “Good without Obama” billboards.
Fundamentalist Atheism
What a flim flam.
Charitable Without Socialism!
Well, bless their little pointy heads.
I hope they like the weather nice and hot. ;-)
OBAMA: I think it’s the same thing as the question about heaven. In the same way that if I’m true to myself and my faith that that is its own reward, when I’m not true to it, it’s its own punishment.”
There is firm proof he's not a Christian. That's a humanist response, not a Christian one.
He's goo dand dead now, thanks to some fellow prisoners who saw what he really was......
EVIL DOES.....
We are now in a *Battle* of all battles...
SATAN VS GOD...For the Souls of MAN...
Of course we know GOD wins, but many men won’t...
This is why GOD is so patient, and why we as Christians have to do the will of GOD, because GOD desires that none perish in these very perilous times on earth....
Ironically the same message as the Bible.
“Are you good without God? Millions are”
I suppose they are...for the moment...
Good without God???
By whose standards?
Even prisoners have standards.
That's a shame...it should have been done by the "justice" system.
I've never known Lucifer to be that obvious.
Atheists seem to have that same tendency as vegetarians/vegans: To make sure they tell anyone that will listen that they are atheists. They find ways to work it into converstations very early on. They really want everyone to know about it as if it is some badge of honor for them.
Poor them.
Yes they are moved by *Lucifer* in the Last Days...Lucifer is very obvious.....
Jesus mentioned over and over and over again...
*Make sure you are not deceived*
Who is the *Ultimate Deceiver*? Satan...
Deception in the world is anywhere and everywhere....
Lord, deliver us.
OBAMA: Being out of alignment with my values.
And this man dares to claim he is a Christian? Does he really think he is God? What if the interviewer asked “what would be a sin in my life? Would 0bama say it is being out of alignment with “my” values or “your” values?
In addition to being incredibly egocentric his statement on its face is nonsense. With that definition how could anyone say that Hitler or Stalin sinned by murdering millions? Maybe they sinned in those rare instances that they showed mercy and spared a life. And America elected this moral idiot.
I have a Valentine’s Day message for the atheists, God loves them in spite of what they may do.
Howz about a few “Good without Liberals” signs?
‘Twould do us much better - balanced economy, real schools, no global warming....less disease, etc., etc., etc....
Saul Alinksy's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals
In a separate chapter he suggests that the perennial question, "Does the end justify the means?" is meaningless as it stands: the real and only question regarding the ethics of means and ends is, and always has been, "Does this particular end justify this particular means?"Alinsky continues by stating several rules of the ethics of means and ends:
-The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.
-In war the end justifies almost any means.
-Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.
-Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.
-The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.
-Generally, success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.
-The morality of a means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.
-Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
-You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.
-Goals must be phrased in general terms like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," "Of the Common Welfare," "Pursuit of Happiness," or "Bread and Peace."
I think (and I am as fallible as the next guy) that they are not deceptive instruments of Lucifer but rather are operating within the "free will" that God allows us to have. They are as wrong as someone who exercises free will in committing adultery and God is just as surprised and disappointed.
Lucifer's evil is far less obvious and far more traumatic than advertising to promote non-belief in a Christian God.
Atheists can’t be good people?
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