‘Why Believe in a God?’ Ad Campaign Launches on D.C. Buses
The advertisers say this:
[Fred Edwords, spokesman for The American Humanist Association] said the purpose isn’t to argue that God doesn’t exist or change minds about a deity, although “we are trying to plant a seed of rational thought and critical thinking and questioning in people’s minds.”
“Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion.”
“Rational thought”?? So as with almost all atheists, these elitist see religious people as irrational (or crazy as the case may be). If they were truly interesting in just collecting like minded people together for Christmas, they would have titled their advertisement “So You Don’t Believe in God? Us Too” not “Why Believe in God?”
This is, as usual, a concerted attack on religion, specifically Christianity, during one of our most important holidays.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars.
Ads proclaiming, “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake,” will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday.
In lifting lyrics from “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” the Washington-based group is wading into what has become a perennial debate over commercialism, religion in the public square and the meaning of Christmas.
“We are trying to reach our audience, and sometimes in order to reach an audience, everybody has to hear you,” said Fred Edwords, spokesman for the humanist group. “Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion.”
To that end, the ads and posters will include a link to a Web site that will seek to connect and organize like-minded thinkers in the D.C. area, Edwords said.
Edwords said the purpose isn’t to argue that God doesn’t exist or change minds about a deity, although “we are trying to plant a seed of rational thought and critical thinking and questioning in people’s minds.”
The group defines humanism as “a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism, affirms our responsibility to lead ethical lives of value to self and humanity.”
November 18th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Oh, you mean, like these ads in Denver that you nutcases are still protesting?
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18003483/detail.html
November 19th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Phylo…..why do you think we are nutcases? Because we believe in God? I have eyes to look around and see that the world was not created from a pile of slime and you call ME the nutcase?
November 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I look around. I see evolution. YOU, Steve, are blind. You cannot see past what you were taught. You are a sheep. I was raised in the church. I was a zealous believer until I decided to find out how the big bang and evolution theories work.
You christians are too general, you think the world is too complex not to have a creator, and when we present DNA as proof that it is not too complex and everything is linked, you simply say you see it as a ‘signature’. Until you open your eyes to more than just the obvious, you christians are always going to find a reason to exist, even though ultimately, you don’t have one.
November 20th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Tribal,
I think you have it all wrong (on so many levels)…..Christians are the ones who actually HAVE a reason to exist…..what exactly are YOU living for? AND what if you’re wrong? What if you wake up one day to find that the beliefs you were taught as a child are true and it’s too late for you? What if you find out that your so called “scientific evidence” is a farse? What then?
December 4th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Then, in that case, you were right and we were wrong. Simple as that. It goes vice versa too, or maybe we are both wrong. Just be good people here on Earth, and let people think or believe how they want.
December 4th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Geez, Beth, find a new argument for pete’s sake! “What if I’m right, you’ll burn in HELL!”
You do not realize you are no longer spreading good news, but OLD news. Stale news. Boring news. I know, I know, you’ll stand by it come hell or high water, ’cause that’s what Jesus would do. Another big shocker.
You may now continue with your regularly scheduled reruns…
December 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
The news Beth is spreading is the Good News, the Word of God.
Unlike the cults and false religions of today, that change their colors to match the world trends, the Word of God, the one true living God, is the SAME yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The message is the same because God does not change. He transcends the idiocy of this world.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
If God does not change, why then have you diverted from the Catholic Church… (The first church), and also who do you now not own slaves, as they did in the Bible… also… if God is all knowing, and also always the same… he would have known from the beginning humanity would fail and would have sent Christ from the beginning. Its all culturally/individually relative as to who is right and who is wrong. I say if there is a God may he strike me down as I am typing… (Didn’t happen.) While I say this proves no God, it doesn’t to you. Therefore, it is up to the individual. So different people can believe different things. Just let your neighbor/brother worship/think how he pleases. You cannot Monopolize belief and thought. (That would be playing God.)