(December 8, 2014 at 10:08 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I think I might be in an extreme minority here, but I'm not a huge fan of the billboard. I just think it's a bit too sneery at theists without any real message apart form "Lol Christianity is dumb". I know American Atheists is firebrand-y, but I think the billboard just comes off as a snotty jeer. Kind of reminds me of a shitty facebook status with the giant "LOL" missing from the end.
I'm on the same page. There's no actual engagement and it's all derogatory.
But I've never been a fan of the American Atheists. Their head honcho comes across as a bumbling neanderthal.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell