Just so folks here do not think me a (totally) hate-filled anti-religious raving SOB …
This offends me.
… a Nativity Scene is part of a new American Atheists billboard. It is now up, on Rt 495, at Kennedy Bvd (on the NJ side, right before the Lincoln Tunnel entering Manhattan).
The billboard reads: "You KNOW it's a Myth" "This Season Celebrate REASON" "* American Atheists *Reasonable Since 1963 * atheists.org"
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-521921?hpt=Sbin
Christmas may be religious based, but has come to embody and encourage the finest aspects of humanity… “peace on earth, good will towards men”. It is a time of good will, charity, and family. For some.
Most other religions (i.e. Muslim Eid) have a similar theme.
If you want to win a man over to your way of thinking, do not try to do so by kicking him in the balls.
To convince people that religion is conceptually wrong, do not attack the finest, the best, the most valuable and beloved humanitarian elements of it.
Is this an attack on those beloved elements? No. Will it be perceived as such by most of those the atheists’ organization hopes to persuade? I think so.
Pick your battles, and fight them wisely, to win. 8)
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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