Posted on 09/09/2009 10:23:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Agnostic attorney Clarence Darrow once said, "I don‘t believe in God, because I don’t believe in Mother Goose."
Now those controversial words and others are being used in part of a new push to promote the thinking of atheists and agnostics. Dozens of new ads will target the people of San Francisco.
The campaign is the brainchild of the Midwest-based Freedom from Religion Foundation, which represents some 14,000 nonbelievers across the country. The association has been working since 1978 to keep church and state separate.
The ads are already popping up on city buses. The group ordered 75 exterior signs with messages like "Imagine No Religion" and Mark Twain's "Faith is believing what you know ain’t so."
Both of those messages will be printed against a stained glass-looking backdrop. Several hundred additional signs will be placed inside buses with longer messages. Dan Barker, a foundation co-president, said the bus signs are a sign of the times.
"Those of us who are nonreligious– freethinkers, atheists and agnostics–are a growing force in America," Barker said.
According to the foundation, San Francisco is one of the cities with the fewest believers and the fewest churchgoers.
I knew a lot of so called atheists who pray every time they drive across the Bay Bridge, and they’d better, lol
They “dont believe in God” yet they voted for a messiah who sold them “hopeychangey”. Now who’s the gullible one?
It would be more pertinent for them to consider if there is a Satan, rather than wasting their time about God.
Sadly, for them, the joke is on them. It’s gonna be hell when they find out they’re wrong.
Mother Goose is buried at the Trinity Church cemetery in Boston.
Well, if we’re going to be reminded of Clarence Darrow, let’s make sure Margaret Sanger and the books she wrote are republished so the reading public can be reminded that Ms. Sanger was a big of eugenics. So was Clarence Darrow for that matter. It’s fairly safe to assume that atheists don’t really attach any special significance to human life.
Sounds like a religious message on government property to me. Anti-religion is a religion.
I hear atheists complaining about people forcing religion on them. Isn’t this forcing atheism on others the same thing ?
hypocrites
More tourist attracting opportunity for the rest of America.
Where is the logic in that statement? There isn't any. One might as well say "I don't believe in George Washington, because I don't believe in the tooth fairy." The two subjects are unconnected. It speaks to readers' prejudices while being totally irrational in content.
Appeal to the lowest common educational denominator.
Two fleas were sitting on a dog.
One flea said to the other flea: There is no dog.
Agnostics make no claims about the existence of "Mother Goose". These are religious adherents to Atheism with a capital A. They advocate their religious worldview and condemn the "non-believers" in it. They are decidedly ANTI-Theist. Bigots in a word.
Hey now, there are plenty of people "seeking" something "else" to believe in. The church of Scientology, The Church of Satan, Charles Manson, and Jim Jones all got their start in SF.
The SAME prohibition on establishing a State Religion ALSO prohibits limiting the exercise of religion. Freedom OF religion is NOT freedom FROM religion; that worldview turns Atheism into the defacto State "religion" just as the Communists wanted.
And in a related story, they are planning to import coal to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
They believe God is make believe.
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