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New York City Atheists Upset With Street Sign Containing The Word "Heaven"
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RE: New York City Atheists Upset With Street Sign Containing The Word "Heaven"
(July 19, 2011 at 1:42 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(July 19, 2011 at 1:38 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote:
(July 19, 2011 at 1:25 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: No one ever said just because your an atheist you cant be an asshole.

Like me? Tongue

But really, get over it.

Did it come over that I meant you? coz I didntWink Shades

No it didn't but I'm not going to lie to myself and say I'm not. Big Grin
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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#12
RE: New York City Atheists Upset With Street Sign Containing The Word "Heaven"
They certainly don't have my support for this idiocy.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: New York City Atheists Upset With Street Sign Containing The Word "Heaven"
(July 19, 2011 at 1:26 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:
(July 19, 2011 at 1:17 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: I thought we were better than this...

Just because you're an atheist (or some other brand of freethinker) doesn't mean your rational. It just means you don't have a specific irrational belief.

As for the issue, it may help to do some substitution and see how it works

"Olympus Way"
"Valhalla Way"
"Nirvana Way"
"Happy Hunting Grounds Way"

I'd be fine with living on any of these streets and wouldn't feel as if someone were forcing religion on me.


Atheism is not to be regarded as an innocent movement. Why?

Because the moment you start to be bothered by simple expressions such as the use of words to denote places; it suggests that there is more than a healthy "rejection of falsehood and illusion".

I mean look at it; the word heaven does not even necessarily have to have anything to do with the idea of God or religion. Heaven could just imply a blissful experience...

For atheists to have a problem with something that simply suggests an idea of God or religious concepts, represents something more than a healthy criticism.
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RE: New York City Atheists Upset With Street Sign Containing The Word "Heaven"
(April 27, 2012 at 4:15 pm)E.Ville Wrote: For atheists to have a problem with something that simply suggests an idea of God or religious concepts, represents something more than a healthy criticism.

It might represent being sick and tired of religion and religious language permeating every hour of the day... and having everyone else make assumptions about what you may or may not believe. I for one, am sick of having to keep my thoughts about religion to myself in "polite society". It's called oppression and it is not surprising that atheists (especially here in the U.S.) are fed up with it.
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RE: New York City Atheists Upset With Street Sign Containing The Word "Heaven"
Then maybe they should complain about that instead. Instead of taking a piss at a street sign.
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RE: New York City Atheists Upset With Street Sign Containing The Word "Heaven"
Quote:I am an angel among angel and a devil among the un-Godly


My guess would have been that you are a fucking idiot.
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RE: New York City Atheists Upset With Street Sign Containing The Word "Heaven"
(April 27, 2012 at 4:23 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: Then maybe they should complain about that instead. Instead of taking a piss at a street sign.

I agree. That was probably not the best way to go about lodging their complaint...but that does not diminish the complaint's validity.
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RE: New York City Atheists Upset With Street Sign Containing The Word "Heaven"
Doesn't the thread titled "Militant Atheism and Why Its Needed." deal with just this kind of pointless activism.
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RE: New York City Atheists Upset With Street Sign Containing The Word "Heaven"
(July 19, 2011 at 11:55 am)Judas BentHer Wrote:
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Some New York City atheists are upset with the use of the "H" word. They're offended with the city using the word "Heaven" on a street sign and they're planning to file a lawsuit.

shit just gets old afterwhile. what about the other people if there are any, who must live on that street? maybe they didn't sign up for that. so great, if they want to make a memorial, why not put a placard on a building - perhaps the firehouse itself. is there no better way to address the good people we lost in 9/11?

can it be looked past as an issue worth a fight? of course, since you can still refer to that street as it's original name, Richards St. same as naming 6th st in nyc, the "avenue of the americas".
they can land a rover on mars, yet they still have to stick a human finger up my ass to do a prostate exam?! - ricky gervais
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