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Godless Billboard Moved After Threats

Temporal Renegade

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The landowner of a site who rented a billboard to atheists for their message, had it taken down recently because of threats he received. Here's the revised link:
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/stor...lay-In-Cincinnati/s7nk8IwldUqtprdBCPNW7w.cspx

Okay, to our Believer Contingent: Are you okay with this? If there are boards up praising God, would you be okay with ones that question Him? (Freedom of speech, and all that....)
 
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Temporal Renegade said:
The landowner of a site who rented a billboard to atheists for their message, had it taken down recently because of threats he received. Here's the link to read the whole story.

Okay, to our Believer Contingent: Are you okay with this? If there are boards up praising God, would you be okay with ones that question Him? (Freedom of speech, and all that....)
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And some fools here think it is unheard of that believers vandalize atheist cars, go figure.
 
I think even though some will deny it, most believers get a kick out of this kind of stuff. "Serves them right" sorta thing.
 
'Threats" from whom, when, how or why. The complaint may not have even related to the content of the ad.
Complete heresay, unsubstantiated by the reporter or their paper. Shoddy journalism.
Too many questions, no facts, non event, no interest.
 
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'Threats" from whom, when, how or why. The complaint may not have even related to the content of the ad.
Complete heresay, unsubstantiated by the reporter or their paper. Shoddy journalism.
Too many questions, no facts, non event, no interest.
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Some people suffer from a severe form of denial.
 
I have to say that I agree with AAA here. It could be a not very well orchestrated stunt (don't ask 'cos I don't know). Nobody up till now has officially complained.

I think it's important to realise that.......

WHAT ORIGINALLY FOLLOWED WAS REMOVED AND SHIFTED TO ANOTHER LOCATION ON THE WEB DUE TO COMPLAINTS AND THREATS. I HAVE RIGHTS JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, SO THOSE WHO COMPLAIN ARE BAD PEOPLE AND NOT VERY NICE TOO.
 
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The landowner of a site who rented a billboard to atheists for their message, had it taken down recently because of threats he received. Here's the revised link:
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/stor...lay-In-Cincinnati/s7nk8IwldUqtprdBCPNW7w.cspx

Okay, to our Believer Contingent: Are you okay with this? If there are boards up praising God, would you be okay with ones that question Him? (Freedom of speech, and all that....)
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I generally find religious billboards (and other billboards advertising for worldview, politics, etc) tacky. But, other than that, no I don't have a problem with the billboard. It's free speech and if the atheistic evangelicals want to be as tacky as their Christian counterparts...meh, whatever...go for it. :)
 
I'd love to get one of those up in my town here in the deep south just to see the reaction. I bet it wouldn't last a week. I personally know several atheists in the area, but I don't know of any organization that would support such a cause. I'm not quite motivated to start one myself, but maybe someday.
 
SumDood said:
I'd love to get one of those up in my town here in the deep south just to see the reaction. I bet it wouldn't last a week. I personally know several atheists in the area, but I don't know of any organization that would support such a cause. I'm not quite motivated to start one myself, but maybe someday.
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Probably only because the atheists in the pews wouldn't want their views staring at them from a billboard on the way to church.

A lot of people hold to beliefs because it is a cultural requirement. I have in-laws that go on and on about how much they hate crosses, Christianity, religion in general...and then turn around and say that atheists are evil and go to church anyway :confused:

People should be free to express their belief or nonbelief without fear of reprisals from the more dominant herd. I swear, some people should just tie cowbells around their necks and go out to graze in the fields.

My personal attitude is that there are a lot of good people out there all along the belief to non-belief spectrum. People should be left in peace to be themselves.
 
Anyone here think this sort of behaviour is OK?

This is really confusing, people. The OP from Temporal Renegade is titled "Godless Billboard Moved After Threats", but is pointing to the wrong story. It's the story about the billboard having been put up, NOT the one about it having to be MOVED, which is here:

Godless Billboard Moved After Threats

At least, that's the only way I can explain A.A.Alfie's strange post.

From the relevant article:

The group that funded the billboard, the United Coalition of Reason, was contacted by Lamar Advertising of Cincinnati. Lamar reported that the landowner of the site had been threatened over the billboard's message and wanted it taken down.

"We weren't given the landowner's identity or precise details," reported Fred Edwords, national director of the United Coalition of Reason. "Nor did we pursue them. It was sufficient to learn that multiple, significant threats had been received and that Lamar would act quickly to alleviate the problem. Lamar was most apologetic to us regarding the situation. It was a development they hadn't expected. Nor had we. Nothing like this has ever happened to us before."
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So the landlord of the building where the billboard was located was threatened *multiple times* over the billboard. And some people here are (apparently) OK with that? If so, that's a pretty scary thing. I can't imagine atheists threatening anyone over a religiously themed billboard, can you?
 
Isn't intimidation by violence, used by Christians against this billboard, something those selfsame people hate about Islam in the Middle East?

I'd bet a good chunk of change on that.
 
It's different because God can only love. And their God is the One! True! God!.

Oy.

But it's because of thigns like this is why I say Americans value conformity and not individuality. My best guess is because humans are herding animals, and that herding instinct that the same types of people must group together and must be absorbed by the larger groups. Then what complicates matter is the xenophobia humans have about anything different than them. We must all be the same, it helps to foster understanding and makes the world a better and safer place.
 
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