A.This is black
B.This is white

A. This is big
B. This is small

Think for a mintue how this basic unit of thought recreates itself in EVERYTHING we do…
God is the most dangerous because people feel they have license to demand their god is the one true god…and people will do more from an emotional place for anybody else than him, or herself…so over compensation is a relief at the most insecure elements humans deal with…

How to get over it…
Don’t know that there is…China tries…We don’t respect their four thousand year civilization, and their understanding that religion is not beneficial to man…not at all.
So we all suffer.

yep… me, too.

anyone, imnsho, who thinks atheism or a billboard like that one “denigrates Christians” is dreaming.

any religion “threatened” by that kind of free speech is self-admitting to be on thin ice already. a solid, self-confident “religion” would laugh it off or ignore it.

to fight back makes them just look like bullies… the same folks who picked on you because they knew in their hearts that they were failures to start with.

I don’t get it when any religion feels threatened or whatever the word of the day is whenever they see billboards or anything that disagrees with them. When is the last time an atheist went and knocked on the door of a stranger to try and convert them?

Why is it always the Christians who are publicly upset about these billboards?

Because they are the dominant religion? A non-Christian experiences some proselytizing by Christians regularly.A Christian, on the other hand, might go their entire lives without being proselytized. Thus they haven’t learned tolerance.

With that being said, the hate on atheism is pretty freaky. Researchers studying people’s attitudes towards religions found that in the U.S. atheists are looked upon as unfavorably as child molesters.

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.~ Stephen Roberts

I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.~ Mohandas Gandhi

If child molestation is actually your concern, how come we don’t see Bradley tanks knocking down Catholic churches?~ Bill Hicks, 1993, referencing the Waco siege

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and I do not find in our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites.~ Unknown

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.~ Mark Twain

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.~ Bertrand Russell

“On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.~ James Buchanan

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.~ Thomas Paine

The modern conservative is engaged in one man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.~ John K. Galbraith

I have one parting shot for the religious folk: If God can heal people of all diseases, cancers, tumors and all other illnesses, WHY DON’T GOD HEAL AMPUTEES?

Never in recorded history has a limb been regenerated instantly thanks to God. Does he hate amputees? What up with that?

I see no incitement to force in that billboard’s message.

Far from being a religion of acceptance, it’s a central claim of Christianity that it is “the only way” to salvation and that all others are damned. What else would you expect from believers who think they have the monopoly on truth! Ha!

I’m happy to see these billboards, for there are many people (like me) who probably never even considered that lack of faith is an option!

I say spread the word! Free yourselves! Let it be known it’s OK not to believe in god!!!

Kiss Me – I’m an Atheist!

I’m an equal opportunity atheist. I don’t believe in the Judeo-Christian god any less or any more than the others.

And yes, you could even go as far as to call me not only an atheist but an anti-theist. I believe the world would be a much better place without religion. But just because I am an anti-theist does not mean I believe I can force others to believe what I believe. Just like any other issue, I have to use my limited powers of persuasion in the marketplace of ideas. If people such as Mr. Matson are threatened by this or by a billboard, this says more about his faith (or lack thereof) than about this organization exercising its First Amendment rights.

Agnosticism is a statement about knowledge, atheism is a statement about belief, neither make positive assertions.

You are agnostic to those things that you know little or nothing about, and atheist to those things you have little or no belief in, the two are not exclusive.

This is where the statement by Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-71) comes from:

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”

Christians are atheist to all the other gods that people around the world believe in, at the end of the day.

These signs are entirely non-dogmatic, unlike the majority of religious signs I see on my way to work. Whether they’re necessary is another debate, but to say they “denigrate Christians” is patently absurd – they’re not making any statement about christianity at all.

My description of the “live and let live” ethos was poorly explained. I use it in contrast to that of most religions, who have an explicit command from their religion to go and convert others. Atheism, simply being a lack of belief, does not have a “conversion” ethos built into its structure. Most atheists, likewise, do not have conversion of others as their goal. Thus, the default position not being one of conversion, I misstated it as a positive “live and let live” ethos, when it is not a positive “tenet of atheism”.

I apologize for inaccurately using such as a shorthand.

I’m not disagreeing, as I know many atheists who are quite aggressive. Disrespectful actions of those in a minority are not any more valid than of those in the majority. However, I’d say that the practical matters of being such a minority make the aggressiveness more distinct. I would suggest (although without evidence or research) that there are far fewer militant atheists as a proportion of the atheist population in a place like Europe, where secularism is more common, than it is here.