The atheists in that site badly need a “Dissent is the Highest American Virtue” billboard. 
This thread is going to hand in one of those hell baskets. 
I’d rather see a banner like the one in my sig (I copied it from something I saw online)
Maybe the billboard’s not trying to cast doubt on the Big Bang itself so much as criticizing the fact it’s only considered a “theory”? It’s like an old cartoon I once saw that featured a battered Supreme Being with gunpowder burns all over Him telling a recently-deceased scientist “What do you mean by Big Bang Theory?”
Very poor taste. Does not play well with others. Poster needs diversity training. Very bigoted.
Of course, acceptance of diverse views and life styles is only valid if it is in regard to your beliefs, not those of others.
I was actually pleased to see an attempt at design.
The last pro-atheist billboard/sign I remember a brouhaha over was simply aesthetically unpleasing. They didn’t even try. This group actually chose a font - admittedly, it was papyrus - but it was still a choice.
If only there were a way to search for images that would back up your claim.
There is nothing more offensive than quoting verbatim. How dare they!
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright;13193473My experience with people like that is that they’re the nicest in the world. Unfortunately, they’re pretty irrelevant for political purposes, since they don’t vote.[/QUOTE]
Actually the Amish do vote at least in local elections.
“God. Loving slavery since 4,000 BC” is verbatim?
I am done here. Debating with many of the atheists on this board is pointless. They do not use reason in debate, but instead are blind apologists for even their most distasteful extremists.
There’s a billboard on the NJ Turnpike that is very similar to the Berlin Ohio one in your link. Not South Carolina, or Alabama, or Kentucky, or even Kansas, but the New Jersey Turnpike.
I’m not a Christian, I celebrate the winter solstice with gift-giving and wassail, and while I can’t get excited about the atheist billboard, it was a dopey idea.
There’s no good reason to piss off the faithful at one of their big celebration times, much the same as vegans should have more sense than to proselytize at Thanksgiving.
I do know the definition of the word myth. It is a tale, usually with religious overtones, that is understood to be fictional. Since the billboard depicts the actual birth of Jesus with the words “You KNOW it’s a myth”, I can only assume that the billboard is saying that Jesus was never born, therefore he never existed.
I don’t believe the militant athiest types have proved their point about that little factoid.
I believe Jesus existed. Born of a virgin? Angels singing upon his arrival? Probably not. But yes, there actually was such a person.
Are athiests in general so revved up to insist that Moses never existed? Or Buddha? Or Mohammed? Gee, I wonder why?
Being obnoxious because others are being obnoxious is never the classy thing to do.
Vegans aren’t nearly as obnoxious as Christians. They smell funny, but that’s about it. 
The birth of Jesus Christ, as portrayed in the Bible, has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas. Even hard-core Christians concede that Jesus was actually born in spring or summer, but we traditionally celebrate his birthday on December 25th [del]because they stole the pagan holiday celebrating the winter solstice, just like Easter, All-Saints Day, and nearly every other Christian-oriented holiday[/del] for no particular reason.
He didn’t. There probably was a guy the legend of Jesus was built on, but Moses appears to be pure fabrication I understand.
Because the Buddhists and Muslims aren’t a major threat to most of the people who post here.
Upon further thought I’ve come to the conclusion that I disapprove of the sign. As foolish I find it, I’m also quite sure that the typical Christian really does believe his or her religion and doesn’t therefore “know that it’s a myth”. And it certainly irritates me when some Christian claims that atheists “really know that God exists.” I don’t care about obnoxious, but it is inaccurate. I’d be more inclined to put up something like “It’s a myth, accept it.” Or “The followers of Zeus thought he was real too.” When your opponent is in the wrong you can be insulting without being inaccurate, and it only strengthens the insult.
Atheist here, also, and this is exactly what I’m thinking.
I agree.^^ There are several posters I have agreed with in this thread and K364 is one of them.
Also, did I mention I don’t agree with that cranky Czarcasm?
Could you please provide a link to the front page of this website? I am unable to find out who started it and where they stand on the issue?
I believe the stand on the issue is humor. Those are examples of what we commonly refer to as “jokes.”
Emphasis mine.
This is not true. According to dictionary.com, the first definition of myth is “a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, esp. one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.”
Categorizing a story as a “myth” in the technical meaning of the word has no bearing on its historicity, as I said earlier in this thread. Which is one of the reasons that this billboard provokes more of an eye-roll from me than any outrage, since I can both believe the nativity story and acknowledge it’s mythic-ness at the same time.