Atheist and I like it just fine. It’s just an ad for an organization. It’s no worse than the “Choose Life” or “God is watching” type billboards I see every day around here.
LOL.
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How should they be eliminated? Via education or through mass persecution?
Thanks. Although wasn’t it Theodorian who persecuted other “heretical” Christian sects?
Mostly agnostic/confused here – and while the concept of an atheist billboard is fine by me, this one just seems dickish. Why not something along the lines of “Happy Winter Solstice” or something? Seems like it’d get a point across without being needlessly antagonistic.
Gosh, as an atheist, I’d sure hate to be deliberately offensive.
How could it not be awesome? They’ve used Shinobi for their campaign!
“LOL” doesn’t make it any less true. Protestants are no more prone to religious tolerance than Catholics. Just look at all the wars both have fought with each other trying to impose one or the other as a state religion. Or just to slaughter the other side.
Persecution doesn’t work very well, besides lowering me to their level. Education in the short run; eventually genetic engineering or other augmentation making people too rational to take something like religion seriously.
Slithy Tove, there is a vast gray area between “kinda dickish” and “totally offensive on every possible level.”
You know, I’m honestly not sure if you’re serious or joking about advocating eugenics.
I prefer “The SEASON is the reason for the Season. Celebrate the Solstice”. But it’s not bad.
There were no “Protestants” in 313 AD first of all. Indeed the Protestants left the Catholic Church long after 313 AD as it gradually grew corrupt and theologically problematic. Plus some Christian sects such as the Baptists strongly believe in church-state separation.
What if some people want to preserve their humanity and don’t want them (or their children) to be genetically engineered?
This is kind of OT, but if the average person in the US today (who is, no denying it, Christian) were instead born as the average person in the Roman Empire 2000 years ago, he or she would probably be more anti-Christian than any atheist today. It’s not Christianity per se that I object to; it’s conformity. And this billboard as well as the bus ads are little specs of “huh?” in the mass-conformists’ day.
Indeed. Christians were regarded as traitors for not sacrificing to the Emperor as a god.
Genetic engineering isn’t eugenics. Or cybernetic enhancement. Or brain-to-computer downloading. Or any number of other things. I said “augmentation”: when was the last time you heard of eugenics augmenting anyone beyond natural human limits?
Well, duh, that’s why I said “if”.
Then they’ll be outcompeted into irrelevancy and likely eventually kill themselves off. And possibly take the rest of the planet with them. Religion is insane; in the long run either it (and other irrational human tendencies) goes away or it will kill us. Or at the least either destroy civilization or destroy humanity as we know it. The latter being the scenario where everyone is not engineered to be more rational, but less; where humanity is turned into a species of genetically hardwired and brainwashed believers. Something that many believers would approve of, but I find disgusting.
So you are serious? Well that’s an… interesting perspective. Zero to Godwin in under 50 posts.
Oh I see. It’s disgusting if Christians were to do it, but you’d get a pass.
No, you are simply trying to create a false comparison.
No; I’m interested in improving humanity, and the elimination of religion is an inevitable side effect of that because religion requires that humanity be defective to survive. Christians and other believers on the other hand would want to make those defects inescapable. They would if they could eliminate all freedom of thought and belief, turn us into religious automatons. A society of zombies for all intents and purposes…
Christian, don’t like it, but I don’t really like religious billboards in general.
(and if you’re going to be pedantic and say “atheism isn’t a religion”, you know what I mean.)
Wow. I’d ask if you can even hear what you’re saying, but it’s pretty obvious the answer is “no.”
Yeah, and so was that other guy. The trouble is, one man’s standards for a master race are not necessarily standards that the other 7 billion of us agree with.
Bowing out now. I have work to do, this is a hijack anyway, and I have no desire to teach a pig to sing.
:rolleyes: As if there’s no such thing as objective standards of performance. And as if Hitler even actually cared about genuine ability; Jesse Owens winning all those gold medals didn’t persuade him that blacks weren’t inferior.
You are just trying to lump together two very different things. And to pretend that anyone who wants to improve humanity is a genocidal maniac. Guess we should shoot all those doctors trying to cure genetic diseases before they run wild and massacre a few million people, right?
It’s kinda cute, but nowhere near as awesome as this billboard.
Atheist here, love the billboard. I’d change my mind if they stop pushing their views on me by passing laws but alas, they are dicks