Atheist Groups Promote a Holiday Message: Join Us

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Just in time for the holiday season, Americans are about to be hit with a spate of advertisements promoting the joy and wisdom of atheism.

Four separate and competing national organizations representing various streams of atheists, humanists and freethinkers will soon be spreading their gospel through advertisements on billboards, buses and trains, and in newspapers and magazines.

The latest, announced on Tuesday in Washington, is the first to include spots on television and cable. This campaign juxtaposes particularly primitive — even barbaric — passages from the Bible and the Koran with quotations from nonbelievers and humanists like Albert Einstein and Katharine Hepburn.

The godless groups say they are mounting this surge because they are aware that they have a large, untapped army of potential troops. The percentage of American adults who say they have no religion has doubled in the last two decades, to 15 percent, according to the American Religious Identification Survey, conducted by researchers at Trinity College in Hartford and released in 2008. But the ranks of the various atheist organizations number only in the tens of thousands.

That is one reason for the multiple campaigns: the groups are competing with one another to gain market share, said Mark Silk, founding director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, which is also at Trinity College.

More of the article: nytimes.com/2010/11/10/us/10atheist.html?ref=us
 
Abyssinia said:
Just in time for the holiday season, Americans are about to be hit with a spate of advertisements promoting the joy and wisdom of atheism.
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Pardon my cynicism, but when was the last time Christmas was a religious holiday? It’s basically a commercial holiday, with thousands upon thousands of businesses dependent on the “Season of Giving” to make whatever profits they might have.
 
I read the article. I thought, “waste o money”
The billboard into the Lincoln Tunnel?
 
Hearing about this makes me happy I have faith at all. If they’re trying to convert people to their way of thinking it does the opposite for me. But the whole thing just seems like a total waste of money and time.
 
I think they didn’t put much thought into this campaign. At first I thought it might be upsetting, offensively blasphemous or sacrilegious, but after reading through the sample quotes considerhumanism.org/quotes.php I found the arguments to be weak and entirely out of context.

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The Bible: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple." Jesus, Luke 14:26 (New International Version)

Humanism: “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where’s evil? It’s that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.” Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night, 1961
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And this I suppose exposes how the same Jesus who died innocently on a cross for the sins of everyone is full of hate? Or is a teacher of hate?

Such misunderstanding actually gives me hope that many who are free thinkers, humanists and atheists have genuinely not soured on the gospel as I once thought, but in fact have simply not heard the Gospel at all.
 
Many years ago on TV an atheist use the Bible to say there is no God.

PS 14:1 “There is no God.”

Now should I type the whole verse or let you people look it up hum? :hmmm:

Well Catholics need to read the Bible more so look it up. 😛
 
Why is it that atheist are always so aggressive in their postulation?
 
YankeeRC said:
I think they didn’t put much thought into this campaign. At first I thought it might be upsetting, offensively blasphemous or sacrilegious, but after reading through the sample quotes considerhumanism.org/quotes.php I found the arguments to be weak and entirely out of context.
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I’ve noticed that these people are as fundamentalist about the Bible as Christian Fundamentalists. When they provide a verse of Scripture to try to prove their point, they interpret it as literally as any Dispensationalist does. They know nothing about the nuanced interpretation of Scripture that Catholics and mainline Protestants have.
 
SamH said:
Why is it that atheist are always so aggressive in their postulation?
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They have conviction, that’s why. I wish that Catholics were as aggressive in spreading our Faith as they are in speading theirs!
 
SamH said:
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They have to very, very careful. Because if they ‘‘evangelize’’ too much they will be looked at like they are part of a religion.
 
They have their own holiday, and I don’t begrudge them theirs, they shouldn’t
begrudge us ours.

Maybe it’s just that April Fool’s Day isn’t as popular as Christmas.
 
These atheists have no manners or humility. I mean Einstein may be a poster-boy for the atheists but this quote will always stand out for me:

“Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks….
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Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”

Albert Einstein, Time magazine, 23rd December, 1940 p. 38

Now That is Humility and good manners
 
Oh my goodness. These atheists keep using people who were NOT ATHEISTS as examples to promote themselves.
  1. Just because you aren’t Christian, Jewish, or Muslim doesn’t make you an atheist.
  2. Many people don’t attend church but still believe in God.
  3. Most, if not all, of the past intellectuals presented were not atheists, but rather DEISTS! They weren’t Christians, although they admired Christian teachings. They believed in god but not a personal god that interferes in the universe. Although a logical contradiction, scientists used to believe the universe was infinitely old until the Big Bang theory, and then many of them switched from atheism to deism. Just because they didn’t go to church or claim to be Christian does not mean they were atheists.
I really wish these atheists would go back and learn history and stop trying to rewrite history to promote their anti-God/God-hating agenda.

I also suggest they study 20th century history. Many of these people are young (teenagers, college-age) and either don’t remember (parents weren’t in the war, grandparents gone) or didn’t study it in school. But hundreds of millions of Christians were murdered in the 20th century in the name of atheism, trying to promote Darwinism (survival of the fittest, let’s pick and choose who deserves to live to “improve” the human racce) or to get rid of religion, namely Christianity. Far more people were killed in the name of atheism/secularism/Darwinism in the 20th century than all of the Christian wars from the past 2,000 years combined!

It’s really sad how the secularists have taken over the media and control young people’s thinking, re-write history to make Christians look bad, etc. But I believe it’s really about money and greed. If people don’t believe in God or sin, more money can be made. Abortions, birth control, pornography make billions of dollars each year. And then when people’s consciences catch up with them, they can make even more money off of counseling or anti-depressants. Buy more drugs so you can’t feel anything.
 
stanmaxkolbe said:
Love your avatar John. 👍
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I can see by your name you are a devotee too :).

St.Max Kolbe pray for us all, Following your holy example may we all have the courage to do what is right in the face of evil - in Jesus’ name. Amen. 🙂
 
John_of_Woking said:
I can see by your name you are a devotee too :).

St.Max Kolbe pray for us all, Following your holy example may we all have the courage to do what is right in the face of evil - in Jesus’ name. Amen. 🙂
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Yes he’s my Patron Saint; six of my relatives were murdered in Auschwitz one woman, five men there crime being Polish Catholic.

I was also in the Signal Corps, he’s my hero.
 
stanmaxkolbe said:
Yes he’s my Patron Saint; six of my relatives were murdered in Auschwitz one woman, five men there crime being Polish Catholic.

I was also in the Signal Corps, he’s my hero.
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God bless you. I can’t even begin to contemplate or comprehend auschwitz. The very name is chilling. Peace
 
The United Coalition of Reason, a group in Washington, is sponsoring billboards and ads on bus shelters in about 15 cities that say, “Don’t Believe In God? Join the Club.”
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I dare say, there’s no better reason to join a club than to cheerfully banter about beliefs such as ultimate futility, existential isolation and meaninglessness of everything. Jolly good show! Only one thing though … what would be the point, exactly?
 
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