Portland Atheist do their own bus ad

[hasoos]

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/atheist_ads_on_trimet_tells_co.html

About time the Atheist around here started to get active!

 

[Wheels]

if you look at the pic on their site... looks liek its not just Portland Atheists

http://unitedcor.org/

 

[Buzz Killington]

I'd like them to do an "Allah is a sham" campaign still.

 

[BenDavis503]

To each their own! I have no problem with this.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

I'd like them to do an "Allah is a sham" campaign still.

Why not just "God is a sham"? Why mix the two languages?

 

[PapaG]

Organized atheism is the same as organized theism IMO.

 

[PapaG]

Why not just "God is a sham"? Why mix the two languages?

Why not "supernatural entities" are a sham? Plenty of religions don't worship a "God".

The agenda is obvious, and it is just as divisive as what many religions do.

 

[hasoos]

Organized atheism is the same as organized theism IMO.

Not really. One groups goal is letting you know it is ok to not be religious. The other groups main goals tend to try and make you feel like an outcast if you aren't religious.

 

[maxiep]

Hmm, isn't Athiests advertising a form of evangelism?

 

[Wheels]

Hmm, isn't Athiests advertising a form of evangelism?

Oh snap!

 

[number 10]

Organized atheism is the same as organized theism IMO.

agreed (surprisingly). Besides, nobody is going to be convinced by an ad on the side of a bus, especially Portlanders. Waste of time and especially money. Why not give a donation of new science textbooks/equipment to public schools instead?

 

[BlazerWookee]

Organized atheism is the same as organized theism IMO.

Only more condescending and insulting.

 

[Eastoff]

Why not "supernatural entities" are a sham?

We are afraid the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Sandman, and Boogeyman will attack us if we do.

 

[Eastoff]

Why not give a donation of new science textbooks/equipment to public schools instead?

We don't want science in our schools!

 

[Eastoff]

Only more condescending and insulting.

i don't know, atheists think everyone is going to have the same "After-life." There is no condemning the non-believers.

 

[BlazerWookee]

i don't know, atheists think everyone is going to have the same "After-life." There is no condemning the non-believers.

Instead, they insult, denigrate, and dehumanize believers.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Instead, they insult, denigrate, and dehumanize believers.

Their slogan is "let us hate and then say we don't."

 

[crowTrobot]

Instead, they insult, denigrate, and dehumanize believers.

you mean "believers" like to pretend valid criticism of their belief is personal insult as a way to avoid dealing with it.

 

[crowTrobot]

Their slogan is "let us hate and then say we don't."

example of what i just referenced.

 

[crowTrobot]

agreed (surprisingly). Besides, nobody is going to be convinced by an ad on the side of a bus, especially Portlanders. Waste of time and especially money. Why not give a donation of new science textbooks/equipment to public schools instead?

generally the point of these ads is not to convert true theists. it's to get the message out that there's nothing wrong with being an atheist. the target audience is people who are already leaning that way.

 

[crowTrobot]

Hmm, isn't Athiests advertising a form of evangelism?

not in the religious sense. again, the purpose of these ads typically is to undermine social/psychological roadblocks - to let poeple who are already having atheistic thoughts/reasoning know that there's nothing wrong with it/them.

 

[Eastoff]

Instead, they insult, denigrate, and dehumanize believers.

so you don't think telling someone "You know you're going to burn in hell for eternity" isn't insulting?

 

[Eastoff]

Their slogan is "let us hate and then say we don't."

I thought that was the GOP

 

[maxiep]

not in the religious sense. again, the purpose of these ads typically is to undermine social/psychological roadblocks - to let poeple who are already having atheistic thoughts/reasoning know that there's nothing wrong with it/them.

So, what is religious broadcasting/advertising to those who are agnostic?

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

So, what is religious broadcasting/advertising to those who are agnostic?

highly irritating

 

[PapaG]

highly irritating

If that's the case, then this Atheist ad should be highly irritating to an agnostic as well.

Of course, since I'm truly agnostic, neither bother me at all. I do have to laugh at the "Atheist" social group organizing to the point that they place public ads proclaiming their own (non-)beliefs.

It's so ironic. I really do laugh at it.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

If that's the case, then this Atheist ad should be highly irritating to an agnostic as well.

Of course, since I'm truly agnostic, neither bother me at all. I do have to laugh at the "Atheist" social group organizing to the point that they place public ads proclaiming their own (non-)beliefs.

It's so ironic. I really do laugh at it.

There's a big difference in what is being said, though.

Christians are telling me that I am going to endure eternal suffering because I am living a life in sin.

Atheists are telling me that if I don't believe in God, there's nothing wrong with that.

I don't think it's ironic.

Personally, though, I find both things sort of irritating simply because people should be smart enough not to be swayed in their religious beliefs from a fucking bus ad or billboard.

 

[maxiep]

highly irritating

I wonder if you voiced that opinion in Morrocco or anywhere you visited in the Middle East?

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

I wonder if you voiced that opinion in Morrocco or anywhere you visited in the Middle East?

That religious broadcasts are irritating? No, I didn't. Why would I?

edit: at least, not to any Muslims. The calls to prayer at ungodly hours of the night were worse than a thousand televangelists.

 

[maxiep]

That religious broadcasts are irritating? No, I didn't. Why would I?

edit: at least, not to any Muslims. The calls to prayer at ungodly hours of the night were worse than a thousand televangelists.

Yet you express it here. Hmm...