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Atheist Billboard
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It probably would have been better had they not used a picture at all. Then there wouldn't be any wiggle room for Christians to get out of explaining why the book they claim gives us our morals condones slavery. The interest in the billboard would then be on the issue of the bible promoting slavery and not derailed by claims of racism.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
Nothing wrong with the billboard or message itself, but they should have known most people would have misunderstood. Would have worked just as good without the image since the words themselves would have caught attention.
 (March 18, 2012 at 11:32 am)Freedom Wrote: I happen to be an African American female atheist. I can guarantee you that the vast majority of black Americans will not understand the message of that billboard because they truly believe that the Bible-god freed them from slavery as Moses' god allegedly did for the Israelites. What they don't understand is that the same god who "freed" them also commanded slavery. Trust me, they have too thick of a mental block to ever get it. It's a shame. Would it have made a difference if they didn't use the picture or would they still have just ignored the message anyway, and said the atheists were racist for putting the Bible quote up?  (March 21, 2012 at 12:17 am)AthiestAtheist Wrote:(March 18, 2012 at 11:32 am)Freedom Wrote:(March 18, 2012 at 10:52 am)Xavier Wrote: Yet they embrace the religion of the white Europeans who enslaved black americans and oppressed their culture in the first place, the theology of which says implies it was perfectly OK for them to do so. As a male, though.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife 
If Ron Paul had his way, they'd be slaves again.
  (March 22, 2012 at 3:41 am)genkaus Wrote:(March 22, 2012 at 2:52 am)5thHorseman Wrote: If Ron Paul had his way, they'd be slaves again. There is no such thing as an "intelligent republican" here in America. There used to be such a thing as Intelligent democrats, but they have fadded away as well. (March 22, 2012 at 2:49 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote:(March 22, 2012 at 3:41 am)genkaus Wrote:(March 22, 2012 at 2:52 am)5thHorseman Wrote: If Ron Paul had his way, they'd be slaves again. So, basically, your country is being run and, for the foreseeable future, would continue to be run by morons?  |
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