Godless Billboard Moved After Threats

metzomagic said:
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:



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?
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Not to speak for AAA but I think his point is that there are only claims of threats; there has been no journalistic work done to verify this information. The land owners details are not, conveniently some might say, available therefore the story cannot be corroborated.

If I'm wrong he'll soon put me right!
 
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If this story is really true and the landowner was threatened by theists, then call it what it is.... terrorism. In this case the terrorists won.
 
bluesjnr said:
Not to speak for AAA but I think his point is that there are only claims of threats; there has been no journalistic work done to verify this information. The land owners details are not, conveniently some might say, available therefore the story cannot be corroborated.
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Precisely.

Morchella said:
If this story is really true and the landowner was threatened by theists, then call it what it is.... terrorism. In this case the terrorists won.
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The big IF.


BTW,
I do not advocate the supression of free speech at all. If the story is true, then I would have a problem with the sign having to be removed based on the beliefs and complaints of other people.

My issue with this is that we are supposed to read 'between the lines' of the poor journalism and come up with the answers the journalist should have provided in an unbiased manner. Many will - and have already - been 'sold' that this story is about 'religious fanatics' having sufficient power to remove the rights of others. Maybe that's so, but nothing has been proven
 
Godless Billboard Moved After Threats

In the wake of multiple, significant threats, the downtown billboard that says “Don’t Believe In God? You are not alone” came down early Thursday morning.
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Christians are by and large peaceful and I think many if not most support the concept of the free exchange of ideas in a Democracy. It's unfortunate that there could be significant threats of violence for such an action to take place.
 
If there are multiple threats, id say it would be a good gamble that these threats didn't come from atheists, agnostics, humanists, whoever. But I dont have links to that.
 
I say Messiah you say Mohammad, You say Jihad I say...

How is this any different from the taboo place on Mohammad in the media? It is scary how similar religious extremists are regardless of their core beliefs.
 
RandFan said:
Christians are by and large peaceful and I think many if not most support the concept of the free exchange of ideas in a Democracy. It's unfortunate that there could be significant threats of violence for such an action to take place.
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Thanks for that!

Considering the numbers of church and christian billboards vs the number of atheist and humanist ones, it's quite funny.

So scared of losing control of their sky-daddy that they threaten violence.

Cute.
 
It's absolutely wrong for any religious person to make threats in this regard. They are clearly not following the tenants of their religion. They are clearly extremists. They are clearly wrong.

But they aren't a majority.
 
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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Just for fun - you should put up two billboards. One as per the OP and another pointing out that the Confederate flag is a purely evil and racist symbol that no God-fearing Christian should tolerate in their presence.
 
Eyeron said:
But it's because of thigns like this is why I say Americans value conformity and not individuality.
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Oh, so it's just us, is it? Just Americans? No other nations value conformity, no other humans? Just Americans, then?

And it's all of us? All Americans? Cuz you've met us all, and know we're all alike?




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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But this is only Americans, yeah? No other nations, no other peoples, are like this, have ever been like this? Can't find this behavior anywhere else but America?

Because I'm really baffled why you singled me and my country out this way, when it's pretty obvious this is a human trait, and not a purely American one.
 
But this is only Americans, yeah? No other nations, no other peoples, are like this, have ever been like this? Can't find this behavior anywhere else but America?
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Of course. Everybody else in the world is more evolved than Amerikans.

;)
 
slingblade said:
Oh, so it's just us, is it? Just Americans? No other nations value conformity, no other humans? Just Americans, then?
And it's all of us? All Americans? Cuz you've met us all, and know we're all alike?

But this is only Americans, yeah? No other nations, no other peoples, are like this, have ever been like this? Can't find this behavior anywhere else but America?
Because I'm really baffled why you singled me and my country out this way, when it's pretty obvious this is a human trait, and not a purely American one.
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Eyeron said:
Of course. Everybody else in the world is more evolved than Amerikans. ;)
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That'd be the 37% difference you refer to in your avatar slingblade.
 
A.A.Alfie said:
My issue with this is that we are supposed to read 'between the lines' of the poor journalism and come up with the answers the journalist should have provided in an unbiased manner. Many will - and have already - been 'sold' that this story is about 'religious fanatics' having sufficient power to remove the rights of others. Maybe that's so, but nothing has been proven
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I think the advertising agency, Lamar, are doing the right thing in not making the landowner's name public. A lot of those fundie nut-jobs have guns.

So I don't see at as 'poor journalism' at all. How about applying Occam's razor:

1. Landowner says he received multiple threats concerning the billboard that was posted on his property.
2. Advertising agency discreetly agrees to move billboard to their own property.

Or, what?

1. Atheists threaten landowner to make it look like religious nut-jobs did it.

So... some here think that this is all a hoax (i.e. that the landowner wasn't threatened by religious nut-jobs), because the journalists didn't interview the landowner? That says CT to me. Isn't it much more probable that the landowner and advertising agency are telling the truth? Even if the landowner was interviewed, how is that going to make things clearer? Presumably, the threats were made over the phone.
 
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Morchella said:
If this story is really true and the landowner was threatened by theists, then call it what it is.... terrorism. In this case the terrorists won.
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This depends completely upon the nature of the threats. Were they threats of violence or vandalism? Or were they threats of boycotts or shunning. Maybe they said they wouldn't sell his farm products at their stores or something.

Recently, I threatened a local radio station because they were running ads for Kevin Trudeau's "Natural Cures" book. I threatened them that I would stop patronizing all their advertisers and that I would encourage all my friends to do so as well. (They stopped running it within a week).

So let's not go all goggle-eyed when someone says they have received "threats" until we learn more about the threats.
 
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