Wow… Have We Got a Billboard For You
First thought: Wow... that takes balls.
Second thought: I hope the billboards are high enough to discourage vandalism.
Third thought: Wait a minute... why should it take balls to state an evidentiary truth?
Fourth thought: Hrumph... stupid priviledge-soaked fundies.
Fifth thought: Hehehe... they're gonna' have a fit.
Then I gave off thinking for a while and instead occupied my mind with the imagined reactionary antics of the Focus on the Family clan (ensconced in Colorado Springs where one of the billboards is featured) set to Yakety Sax. *giggles*
Over all, I approve. Yes, there are certainly panties bunching all over the state right now, including the frilly sets worn by the accomodationist crowd, but that merely assists me in identifying those individuals I don't care to spend time with. I do, however, take umbrage with a line from the COCORE page dedicated to the billboard, which states, "We don't ask you to stop believing in your version of a super-natural being."
Bullshit.
Telling someone that their god is not real, and then instructing them to "choose reality", is most certainly asking them to stop believing in their version of a super-natural being. It's a reasonable request, and this apparent attempt to soothe potential hostilities by backing away from it annoys me.
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January 25th, 2012 - 01:32
I hate religious or non-religious groups that think they represent the general public. . . There’s also no evidence to prove or disprove the existence of God. I hate extreme, belligerent Fundies, Atheists alike!!! Well. . . extreme belligerent and offensive people in general! 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?? There’s more important issues going on right now. . I could give a flying rats ass about this stupid billboard . . . I would be more impressed with these organizations making a real difference for progress than insults to a mass group of people they hardly know.
January 25th, 2012 - 10:55
While there is no rational difference between the assertion that there is no god and the assertion that there are no monsters under the bed, your contempt is duly noted; as is your baffling acquiescence to an undeservedly privileged class.
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:
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.
January 25th, 2012 - 18:21
I find this response to be full of the smell of victory, and the taste of bacon.
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.
January 25th, 2012 - 22:03
Mmmm… bacon. *cue Eye of the Tiger soundtrack*
January 31st, 2012 - 00:00
“It’s the… rye or the kaiser, it’s the thrill of one bite…” –Weird Al