Credit: Why believe in a god? and American Humanist Association
Posted on 12/03/2008 4:12:05 PM PST by George - the Other
Why believe in a god?' ads draw scorn
The Associated Press 9:27 AM EST, December 3, 2008
WASHINGTON - More than 200 people have complained to Metro about an ad campaign that questions believing in God. One person praised the campaign.
The ads by the American Humanist Association first appeared on buses two weeks ago and inside buses Monday. They say, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake."
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It just goes to show that humanists and other liberal types are hypocrites.
Atheist evangelicals. Spreading their message. And they say it isn’t a religion.
I remember seeing a “Don’t wear fur” ad on a Metro bus many years ago. I turned to the guy next to me and said, “I don’t imagine many people who ride this bus wear fur coats.”
Exactly right. The majority of hospitals, universities, homeless shelters and community outreaches in this country were started by Christians for the express purpose of loving others as Jesus Christ called them to do.
“Just be good.” ....please tell me how you are going to define “good” from “bad” without a divinely inspired moral code? What a joke! These people are moral relativists to the core, believing that communities can decide what’s “good” and “bad”. Just don’t ask them about the Nazis or Stalinists deciding that holocausts taking millions of their opponents lives are good.
I’m waiting for the “Why believe in Allah?” advertisement...
I always find it interesting that atheists seem to have antipathy towards God (and His followers).
How can you despise something that doesn't exist?
IMHO most atheists are theists with a vendetta against God.
As a Christian, I see no reason to believe in a god. I see every reason to believe in God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Modern atheism, and alas many Christians, mistake Christianity for a form of one god paganism.
The transcendent ground of all being, the All-Holy Trinity, the Existing One, by whose will all things exist, who in the Person of the Son united our created nature to His pre-eternal Uncreated Nature, is not the sort of being that is called a god. As the Buddha correctly observed, the existence or non-existence of such beings is a complete irrelevancy to human life and spiritual progress.
A lot of folks, both Christian and non-Christian need to read a good dose of the Cappadocian Fathers, and maybe a bit of St. Dionysius the Areopagite for good measure.
They might as well run an ad that says “Do whatever you want since there’s no God.”
Instead what they’re saying is, ‘do what we think is right.’
Without God, life has no meaning. We are just here and then we are gone. There are no consequences for our lives on this earth. Adolph Hitler has the same afterlife as Mother Theresa - nothing.
The idiots want to create a world they won’t want to live in.
What they are demonstrating is overt narcissist hostility towards those who believe differently. The root of this hostility is that humanists, in spite of all their pontification, are insecure in their faith that there is no God.
George
Their antipathy isn’t towards God. It is directed at His followers. News for the atheists, God loves you too. Unrequited love. An age old story.
Pic#2 - I would have used a cute, young, healthy female instead of rasta boy with the dreads.
Not so much. It more antitheism, in that one denies that God exists, but goes one step further, and says that it would be terrible if it were all true.
Big Brother watching over your every move. It would be like living in a celestial North Korea.
The people doing this are antitheists; atheists are the quiet ones who just don't want to be bothered by it.
I don't have antipathy towards anyone who is a believer, unless they go out of their way to tell me that I will suffer eternal damnation and torture because I don't agree with them, and that I can't be moral without following their particular god.
Why get mad at unbelievers who use popular media like bus billboards to make a point, much like many religious groups do?
With regards to the billboards themselves, I don't see why a Rastafarian hippie needs to be the symbol for atheists. Couldn't they have used someone less goofy?
Besides being a waste of energy, it's also free promotion for atheism.
It's hard for some people to believe, but "organized atheism" - orgs like the AHA, FFRF, AU, GAPAC, etc - is small. Tiny, even.
If it weren't for coverage, mostly generated by Christians, they would largely go unnoticed.
It's not free; they paid for it. They have just as much a right to buy ads as you do.
In my personal experience, Dreadlocks Santa accurately represents the Weirdness Factor of these people.
The FOOL hath said in his heart, There is no GOD.
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