#188421 - 06/30/10 10:00 AM
Atheists' Billboard Vandalized in NC
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starlight.2
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how ironic is this, indeed.
Atheists' Billboard Vandalized
By Jingwen Zhang Charlotte : NC : USA | Jun 29, 2010
One nation, indivisible," the billboard used to read.
This is one of the ads for Charlotte, N.C.'s atheist associations. Those familiar with the Pledge of Allegiance can observe that the line on the billboard comes right before the phrase "under God", which is what some upset vandals sprayed beneath the line on the board.
Unfortunately for the atheist community, the billboard won't be able to be replaced until after July 4th.
The billboard was put up a week ago on Billy Graham Parkway. Billy Graham is a famous evangelical preacher in North Carolina. Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics spokesman William Warren said that the billboards (there were more erected elsewhere, not just the defaced one) were a means of advertising for their group, but claimed that the rather meaningful location of the sign definitely was not, in any way, a jab toward Reverend Graham.
http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-6193539...lNTPWJyZWFraW5n
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#188424 - 06/30/10 10:38 AM
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Sad but predictable.
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#188477 - 06/30/10 08:48 PM
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shakey56
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What's even more predictable is few if any Christians will condemn this, but many would scream discrimination or worse if this were a Christian message being desecrated.
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#188529 - 07/02/10 01:34 PM
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Paulwa_dup1
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Human nature that whoevers finger is hit with the hammer will scream the loudest. Simple and very understsandable, Shakey.
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#188537 - 07/02/10 03:48 PM
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shakey56
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lol...so you condone vandalism by your fellow believers? how do you feel abt murder, that ok too?
The problem is the silence from the Christian community. As I said in another thread: Even if the majority are on the path toward the good, that goodness is diminished by the minority doing bad when majority allows it by their silence. If it's wrong when done to you, it is just as wrong when done to others.
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#188540 - 07/02/10 05:14 PM
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flicka
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It's a cat & dog type deal. Even if the atheists didn't put it in that location to take a jab at the religious in the area, that's how it was taken.
I actually prefer the phrase "One nation, indivisible". It makes me feel stronger as a nation of people.
Even though my parents were strong Christians, they'd learned the pledge without 'under God' in place and knew it shouldn't be there.
As far as it being too bad that the billboard won't be replaced until after the 4th, if the group wants publicity, I'm betting it will get much more with the graffiti in place.
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#188542 - 07/02/10 05:53 PM
Re: Atheists' Billboard Vandalized in NC
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shakey56
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So that excuses the criminal behavior?
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#188543 - 07/02/10 06:13 PM
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flicka
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Nope. It's not acceptable.
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#188556 - 07/02/10 08:01 PM
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I said the pledge of allegiance most of my life without the added 'under God' in it. I think when it was added I wondered why it was even needed because at that time I thought everyone was a christian and believed in God. It came as a shock later to find some people did not even believe in God, much less His Son who died for the sins of the world! Very sad I think, but I am living with it.
Paul
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#188568 - 07/03/10 11:55 AM
Re: Atheists' Billboard Vandalized in NC
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starlight.2
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Defaced 'atheist' billboard is repaired
By Tim Funk
Posted: Thursday, Jul. 01, 2010
It took a few days for them to get to the job. But, once in position Thursday morning, a crew from Lamar billboard company quickly replaced a defaced sign that had been put up along Billy Graham Parkway by the N.C. Secular Association, a state coalition of atheist, agnostic and free thinker groups.
The crew folded a new vinyl onto the billboard space that reads "One Nation Indivisible." That's the original phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance, written in 1892, before the words "under God" were added after "one nation" by an act of Congress in 1954.
full text: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/07...l#ixzz0sdvL9Wjq
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#188570 - 07/03/10 12:13 PM
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Sooner or later the religious issues in this country must be dealt with. It's smoldering beneath the surface out in society because of political correctness. I see a lot of commonalities
between some protestant denominations and some Islamic groups insofar as being intolerant of others beliefs and filled with self-righteousness. If you think that religion and politics are not connected you are in dreamland yet it's not politically correct to talk about it openly.
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#188572 - 07/03/10 01:26 PM
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Paulwa_dup1
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I think it all started one day when Israel decided they did not want God to guide them directly because they feared His awesome power (I think) so they asked for a King to be over them. God said they might be sorry (best I recall of those scriptures)but He granted them their request and Saul became Israels first King and politics was born and was to become man's dread of those who govern us badly.
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#188579 - 07/03/10 04:32 PM
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shakey56
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I, for one, dread religion far more than politics.
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#188580 - 07/03/10 04:42 PM
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Paulwa_dup1
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If you are an atheist, that you should..fear religion..eternity
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#188581 - 07/03/10 04:47 PM
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shakey56
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As should you since the chances of your choice for a God being correct are very small indeed.
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