Atheists Step Up 'It's Time to Quit the Catholic Church' Campaign

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An atheist activist group is fighting the Catholic Church’s “war against contraception” by stepping up its campaign that suggests believers should end their faithfulness to their religion.
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The Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation plans to run a full-page ad in The New York Times that states, “It’s Time to Quit the Catholic Church.” FFRF is conducting a fundraiser to pay for the $52,000 ad and has collected $45,000 so far, according to a chart on the group’s website.
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The FFRF campaign began last month in light of opposition from the Catholic Church to the Obama administration’s decision that seeks to guarantee employees of church and ministry-affiliated institutions reproductive health coverage, including contraception, abortifacients and sterilization.
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christianpost.com/news/atheists-step-up-its-time-to-quit-the-catholic-church-campaign-70883/

The ad itself (I won’t link to it, but it can be found on the FFRF website) is pretty ugly, both in appearance and in the words it chooses.
 
Well, it does speak to their intelligence. :rolleyes: The Catholic Church IS the # 1 enemy of “reproductive freedom” defined as abortion, contraception, etc. etc.; all other religions as well as any political party has the risk of long-term compromise because their teachings are of man, subject to public/societal pressure, and often illogical, or based on lies.

This fight will go on for centuries, but will be won.
 
And they dare to say atheism is not a religion?

Really? From this angle they don’t look any different from any other religious fanatic - except the god they worship is themselves.
 
At least they know that we are serious and that we will not relent. May the Lord have mercy on them and may He help us to love even these people.
 
I can’t decide if this is funny or not. In any case American Catholics will not be able to ignore the issue for much longer. They will have to decide where they stand when it comes to their beliefs and living their faith. That is a good thing.
 
Contra_Mundum said:
I can’t decide if this is funny or not. In any case American Catholics will not be able to ignore the issue for much longer. They will have to decide where they stand when it comes to their beliefs and living their faith. That is a good thing.
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I don’t know that its a good thing. Sometimes its better to have some people who are partially with you than to have those people not be with you at all.
Heuchler said:
At least they know that we are serious and that we will not relent. May the Lord have mercy on them and may He help us to love even these people.
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This is true.
 
It would not surprise me if the New York Times offers them a discount: We’ll take the $45ks you have and call it even.
 
Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker, the Punch and Judy act of the American “New Atheist” scene, are at it again, doing their very best Hitchens/Dawkins impersonations, while insisting that everyone pay attention to them because…“we are too smart to believe in God!”. Did you catch that…they want, they implore…they demand… that you stop everything and listen to them, because they are…really, really, really…really intelligent!!!

And they are also, really, really, really angry…and bitter, because people actually have the temerity to have faith in a God that…and they can prove this because they are really, really smart…cannot possibly exist. So, they must scream at the top of their lungs, in the most shrill tones imaginable, because they are genetically programmed (this is their evolutionary destiny) to free the world of all of that faith, hope, love, charity, fellowship, peace, you know, all that awful stuff Jesus Christ brought to humanity.

You go get’em Annie and Dan, break their spirits, tear down their beliefs, insult and belittle them, because they just aren’t as intelligent as you are. So, “It’s time to quit the Catholic Church”? And then what? Atheism? I think I’ll let my heart and soul lead me forward, and I’ll choose to “cling to my religion”. I guess I am just not smart enough to abandon Jesus Christ and His Church. I’ll just have to live with that sort of stupidity.
 
Well that’s… unpleasant… but anyone remotely attached to their faith wouldn’t be signing up. I really don’t know what effect they’ll hope this will have.
 
MacBP said:
Well that’s… unpleasant… but anyone remotely attached to their faith wouldn’t be signing up. I really don’t know what effect they’ll hope this will have.
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They are probably looking to offend others and boost their egos. It’s the only reason I can think of that will cause people to immaturely make these advertisements or dress up like zombie religious figures in public parades. No other religion on Earth that I know of creates such rudeness, malice, and immaturity.
 
qui_est_ce said:
:ouch:

Interestingly the letter is addressed to “liberal and nominal Catholics” :blushing::ehh::hmmm:
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How stupid they are. One can be liberal and a devotedly sincere Catholic, just as one can be a conservative and a devotedly sincere Catholic. 😦
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
How stupid they are. One can be liberal and a devotedly sincere Catholic, just as one can be a conservative and a devotedly sincere Catholic. 😦
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I guess they think liberals are educated and should know better than to follow a bunch of old white men in dresses. It takes the atheists to give them permission to leave. :o
 
Contra_Mundum said:
I can’t decide if this is funny or not. In any case American Catholics will not be able to ignore the issue for much longer. They will have to decide where they stand when it comes to their beliefs and living their faith. That is a good thing.
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Honestly I think they’re focusing on people who seem to be not serious about the faith in the first place. They seem to be targeting cultural Catholics. People who are Catholic just despite their troubles with the Church instead of because they love the Church.

These people would seem like the easy target because they have doubts already… so why not attack those doubts and weaken their faith?

All I can do is shake my head.
 
Atheists should just live their own lives, if somebody else is religious how does it effect you?
 
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