# Billboard of Intolerance **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 22, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365 "2005-02-22T17:10:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/61 "2005-02-23T13:46:43Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > This reminds me of a billboard that is near the city limits of my hometown that said something along the lines of _Saturday is the True Day of the Lord and all those that worship on Sunday shall burn in Hell_ and in light of the message on the OP’s board, it makes me smile – it’s not Them against Us, it’s (Them vs. Them vs. Them) against Us. > > Them and us being the irrational and rational, not necessarily theists and atheists. There was a similar one by my work a few months ago. It said something along the lines of, “Saturday is the true day of the Lord. Sunday is a sign of the Beast.” I figured it was put up by some particularly rabid Seventh Day Adventist or something. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/62 "2005-02-23T14:52:55Z")
Now that you reminded me, the Mark of the Beast nonsense \*is \*what it said and considering my hometown (Cleveland, TN) is just 140 miles north of Atlanta, there’s a good chance the same organization is responsible for both billboards. Or, if not, I’d rather not know. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/63 "2005-02-23T15:30:31Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > The owner of the billboard just died. Commies, probably. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/64 "2005-02-23T16:19:34Z")
A-ha! Checked on the way back from lunch. The address posted at the bottom belongs to a Reverend Briggs. ---
**Author:** ![Leroy\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Leroy\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leroy_Brown)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/65 "2005-02-23T22:46:52Z")
I did a Google of Reverend Briggs and got this: [Reverend Briggs’ bio starts on page 3 (.pdf file)](http://www.founderspatriots.org/pdf/va_news_04_10.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/66 "2005-02-23T23:14:18Z")
_singing_ Bad, bad, bad, Leroy Brown The baddest man in the whole damn town! Badder than a 'ol King Kong Meaner than a junkyard dog! ---
**Author:** ![Leroy\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Leroy\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leroy_Brown)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/67 "2005-02-24T01:23:35Z")
Giddyap 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/68 "2005-02-24T01:40:16Z")
You reminded me of one of my favorite childhood songs! (Not that I’m that old, I just liked it as a child). Hope you stick around! ---
**Author:** ![Leroy\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Leroy\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leroy_Brown)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/69 "2005-02-24T03:34:59Z")
I’m sure I’ll subscribe when my guest status expires. This is a great MB, I hope I can contribute. Righ now I’ve got my “60’s and 70’s” MP3 folder open. Going through Chicago’s stuff with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young up next. I’m not old either in that my generation’s music is 80’s and 90’s, but I just can’t get excited about music with no guitars in it (I play acoustic). Sorry to hijack, here’s my “favorite” Chick tract to get somewhat back on subject. [Somebody Loves Me](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0006/0006_01.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/70 "2005-02-24T03:38:56Z")
The kid died? The fucking kid died? Aargh! ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/71 "2005-02-24T04:02:41Z")
I can’t find it now, but there was a flash animation going around before the election which was supposed to be a political ad for Jesus’ presidential candidacy. It was very much in the spirit of **Liberal** ’s proposed billboard, using Bible quotes to show that Jesus was exactly the type of liberal person that any conservative Christian ought to hate. Anyway, I’d still be interested in the URL on the billboard, if anyone wants to go jot it down. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/72 "2005-02-24T04:25:50Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You ever _been_ to West Virginia? > > 😃 That’s not the question. “Did you go back?” _That’s_ the question. ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/73 "2005-02-24T05:41:48Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I guess maybe they’re trying to pre-empt the much more defensible argument that **religious intolerance** is anti-American. Not to condone petty vandalism, but I’d love to see something to that effect as an impromptu addition to that billboard. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/74 "2005-02-24T05:47:42Z")
“Billboard of Intolerance”? That was in 1st edition _Unearthed Arcana_, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/75 "2005-02-24T06:24:47Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > Maybe we dopers should pool our money together to put up a liberal billboards in one of the most wacko conservative parts of the country, just to ruffle their feathers. I’d throw down 50 bucks for the cause. Which reminds me, why is it the people who post billboards or public signs with their political views are almost always far right-wing John Bircher-types? There have to be a few cases where some left-winger’s felt the need to put up a big sign displaying his liberal opinions for all the world to see. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/76 "2005-02-24T06:28:06Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > You reminded me of one of my favorite childhood songs! (Not that I’m that old, I just liked it as a child). How do you know he didn’t name himself after Encyclopedia instead? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/77 "2005-02-24T07:21:24Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > “Billboard of Intolerance”? That was in 1st edition _Unearthed Arcana_, wasn’t it? 2nd edition, I believe. If you see it, you have to roll a saving throw against God. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/78 "2005-02-24T07:28:31Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > 2nd edition, I believe. If you see it, you have to roll a saving throw against God. No, you’re thinking of Bigby’s Billboard of Bigotry. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/79 "2005-02-24T13:38:25Z")
I marvel that a 96 year old man would still have the will to care so much about lunatic atheists as to have that billboard put up. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365/80 "2005-02-24T14:02:16Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > How do you know he didn’t name himself after Encyclopedia instead? 😃 Encyclopedia Brown was created in 1963? I just went and looked it up. I swear, I’d not heard of him until I was an adult. I was going to come in here and say, well, he was way after I grew up. But apparently not!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-of-intolerance/291365.md?page=5)