Perhaps I’m just hungry… for truth! For Justice! And… ooh, waffles. ^_^

Sure, the above may appear silly and frivolous… and it is. My response to theistic arguments is generally to fight fire with fire, after all. Plus, I get to do it with a smile! It’s a lot easier on the blood pressure levels.

Also, though the rest of your post might easily be dismissed on the basis of simple ignorance, I would like to take this opportunity to examine the false equivocation fallacy you’ve so blatantly displayed here as the “money could have been better spent” argument. You state:

“how much money was spent on this button pushing campaign anyway?!?!? Couldn’t it have been spent on something more positive like, oh IDK. . . word famine organizations or, re-stabilization to communities in disaster areas like Haiti, New Orleans, the survivors of Japan’s tsunami or, funding Nuclear clean up of the Fukushima plant??”

First of all, it’s boorish to expect others to do your research for you. A three-second Google search showed that the COCORE affiliated Boulder Atheists group paid a total of $1,200 for the three billboards in question, which will be displayed for four weeks. Should you prove equally inept at math, that comes to $100 per billboard, per week.

Moving on to the anemic meat of your argument, the money could, in fact, have been used for any of the charitable causes you listed; of course, that would have merely been duplicating their existing efforts. Again, had intellectual laziness not prevented it, a simple Google search would have showed you that Boulder Atheists was formed as a service organization. Much of their ongoing fundraising efforts are used to support Non-Believers Giving Aid, which was initially organized in response to the devastating earthquakes which struck Haiti last year. Both Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross, which have provided much needed assistance in each and every one of the “disaster areas” you mentioned (with the obvious exception of the nuclear clean-up in Fukushima, which does not accept external aid), are likewise supported. Recognizing, as apparently you do not, that the efforts of small organizations are much more effective when focused locally, the Boulder Atheists also collect items and encourage donations to the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, participate in the Boulder County Adopt a Road program, and encourage blood donation through Bonfils Blood Center.

In suggesting that their money could have “been spent on something more positive” you both, falsely, suggest that the organization does not concern itself with charitable efforts, and that the money spent on the billboards will have no positive effect. Past billboard campaigns have proven that such media efforts result in a marked influx of new members, which directly equates to the greater success of their charitable programs.

Hopefully, this information has been illuminating in regard to your clearly held prejudices. If not, might I suggest you take advantage of COCORE’s generous offer to send you, free of charge, a 15 minute video titled “The Journey of Life From the Nonbeliever’s Point of View”, by emailing producer/director, Marvin Straus at cocore3@q.com.

Finally, I do appreciate your self-identifying as an intellectually dishonest, boorish, logically inconsistent, member of the panties-in-a-bunch crowd. It was quite considerate of you to save me the time I may have otherwise wasted taking any future comments you might cough up overly seriously.