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‘God Is an Imaginary Friend’: Atheist Billboard Ignites Controversy in Colorado

Atheist Billboard in Denver Is Sparking Debate | Boulder Atheists

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Atheists have a way with billboards. In fact, it’s one of the primary methods many non-believers use to communicate with the public at large. This is exactly the method a Denver, Colorado-based group, called Boulder Atheists, is using to spread its message. Reaction to the group’s newest billboard, which targets those who hold a belief in God, has ranged from giggles to anger.

Boulder Atheists has erected three billboards that each read, “God is an imaginary friend. Choose reality, it will be better for all of us.” This statement, which will clearly offend the religious, is not intended to start problems, the group says.

“We are more interested in opening a dialogue than upsetting you,” the group proclaims on its web site. “We don’t ask you to stop believing in your version of a super-natural being. We do ask that you consider not forcing your religious views on others.”

But another portion of the explanation may only add to the frustration the religious feel as a result of the billboard’s presence:

One of the reasons we put the billboard up is that we are concerned when religious people feel they have not only the right, but the obligation, to force their religious views on others. Examples are proselytizing in the military, educational systems, and government. Another example is the attacks by religious people on gays, lesbians, and abortion providers.

Abraham Aryan, a local businessman, isn‘t happy about the billboards’ presence.

“Anything with a derogatory message I don’t think should spread around. But they’re welcome to do it,” Aryan said. “Welcome to America, that’s one of the beautiful things about living here is you can do that.”

KUSA-TV has more:

This isn’t the first time the group has publicly railed against religion. ABC-7 reports:

In 2008, the group paid for 11 billboards around Denver and Colorado Springs that questioned the existence of God. A billboard at East Colfax Avenue and Quebec Street in Denver said, “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.

The group also erected a sign at then-Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden’s Christmas decorations in 2009.

A year later, the group paid for three billboards protesting the nativity scene at Denver’s City and County Building. The signs said, “Stop government support of religion, move this Denver nativity scene to a church.”

Considering Boulder Atheists’ track record, the alliance of non-believers is certainly not likely to apologize or rescind. In the end, the group’s leaders have the free speech and freedom to post such messages, but they may not spark the discussion they’re hoping for by taking such a confrontational route.

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  • Pocketgeek
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:08pm

    Dress for warm weather, ya smart-tards. That‘s someone who’s too smart for their own good…

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  • Theodwulf
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:07pm

    do yourself and others a favour …IGNORE them don’t say nothing to them, they are trying to drag you down to their level. There is nothing that they can say that will be worth your time or your agrevation.

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    • I.Gaspar
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:20pm

      good answer.
      They will find out eventually that HELL is a real place.

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    • scarebear83
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:31pm

      As the billboard says I can say I have chosen reality. The reality is He is our God and in Him we live and we survive.

      There is, beyond the azure blue
      A God, concealed from human sight
      He tinted skies with heav’nly hue
      And framed the worlds with His great might (chorus)
      There was a long, long time ago
      A God whose voice the prophets heard
      He is the God that we should know
      Who speaks from His inspired word (chorus)
      Our God, whose Son upon a tree
      A life was willing there to give
      That He from sin might set man free
      And evermore with Him could live (chorus)

      Chorus:
      There is a God, He is alive
      In Him we live and we survive
      From dust our God created man
      He is our God, the great I Am

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEo6ADYH0lc

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:37pm

      Atheist = No Hope

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    • boundforglory
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:54pm

      These atheists are saying that we are forcing our religion on them which is not true, they, however are trying to force their non-belief on everyone! If any atheist came to my house, they would find my house full of Jesus, in word, song, two bibles, and a very thick Strongs Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible! Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except by Him. John 14:6. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:16-18. And that name is; JESUS!!

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    • TEXASGRANNY73
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:58pm

      @SCAREBEAR Thank you for posting the song. I cannot carry a tune but I can hear it in my heart. Love.

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:59pm

      I wrote this song to express how I feel about my religious experience and how I view Jesus. I have tried churches but they always seem to want more money while showing less concern for my well being when I needed help. My personal belief is that you can find Jesus inside your hart without having to go to some church for approval. I can only speak for my self through my music but I feel good about my salvation.
      “His Amazing grace” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11772079

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:17pm

      at least i have a friend………………

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:27pm

      My imaginary friend will have them roasting in hell soon…

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:34pm

      ^ Endorphin addicts ^

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:35pm

      Real smart! Win people over with arrogance and insensitivity! (”Please don’t be offended, you just don’t have a clue….”)
      What do these people talk about when they get together?
      If they are planning on saving the world through atheism, uh… there might be better places in the world to start.
      (So much religious violence in Colorado! Better step up the atheist meetings!)

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    • Hossua
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:43pm

      Because there are no Christian billboards anywhere.

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    • edcoil
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:47pm

      Reality, sucks.

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    • rush_is_right
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:54pm

      the only thing imaginary is the intelligence of atheists….

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:55pm

      Part of my devotional reading today…………

      Act 13:40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

      Act 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

      The blindness of some is truely scary………………..

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    • Nehemiah6.3
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:56pm

      i am glad to see so many people speaking of their belief in God and Jesus Christ here. I am one of you who believe. I am very saddened by other blogs and websites, they have people who speak of unbelief. I for one am doing all in my small power to convince all around me that there is a God by my actions. Which means i am trying my hardest to keep His commandments and also love my neighbor. If we all truly believe in God, then we would try his works to do. Not just complain about how when we were in a church nobody came to help me when i was in need. Did you go and help someone else in need? Did Jesus complain when nobody came to help him? Did all the prophets of old complain when nobody helped them? We are saved by grace after all we can do.

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    • Two Sheds
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:10pm

      I agree, but there sure are a lot of comments below!

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    • Miyegombo Bayartsogt
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:18pm

      Hell is a real place invented in the mind of gentle Jesus to punish heathens for the enjoyment of good Christians who watch from heaven. Nothing makes a mild Christian happier than the thought of an eternity looking down at billions upon billions of Hindu’s and Buddhists and Jans other innocent people as they writhe like maggots in the fires of hell. Yeah, though they might lived good lives they didn‘t take to the doctrine of the one true church and that church’s intolerant, vengeful, bitter god will certainly cast these innocents into the lake of fire.

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    • wildbill_b
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:29pm

      “We don’t ask you to stop believing in your version of a super-natural being. We do ask that you consider not forcing your religious views on others.”

      Is it hypocrisy to ‘force your religious views on others’ using a billboard to belittle believers? What an odd display of ‘logic’.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:38pm

      Dear Atheists.. When I was a child.. I had an invisible friend..I knew Him as God..then later I knew about His Son Jesus..but I was not aware of just how important Jesus was..and let me tell you…He is incredibly important..Can you imagine that He was with God creating from the foundations of the world with His Father God..and that everything that was made was made by Him , for Him and through Him and without Him..nothing was made..And God the Father loved the world so much…that He gave His only begotten Son to die for our sins..And Jesus was born into the world and He did die for our sins and He rose the third day and He still lives..His Spirit lives in our hearts and there are ones right now living in the kingdom of God. In Him is everything and without Him is nothing..Without Him..you will never know joy and peace or have the hope of living forever in joy and happiness with Him…I hope you reconsider..Seek Him and you will find Him..knock and He will open the door..Ask..and He will give you.. Blessings to you..

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    • Faith1029
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:45pm

      ROSE-ELLEN: “people can‘t help what they truly believe or don’t. God knows their hearts and an honest decent athiest will not be condemned for not having the brains/heart to believe. A decent athiest will say yes to Christ in other ways that replace a cognitive assent.”

      What you have stated is not Biblical and a lie from the pit of Hell. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth not, shall be Damned. You must accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior with your heart and mind. You have a choice. Jesus came to die for our sins. If it is as you say, then His death would have been in vain. Satan would like nothing better than people believing being honest and decent will earn them their salvation.

      The atheists should look on the 700 Club website on the people who died and came back to life. Some saw heaven, some saw hell. There were atheists in the videos that now are believers.

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    • InversionTheory
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:43pm

      When I was 11 years old, I was pronounced clinically dead for more than 5 minutes. When I was “dead” I saw nothing. No family, no Jesus, no hell. It was very dark and very quiet and there was something very…calming about that. I was an atheist at the time, having been convinced by recently reading the Bible cover to cover.

      Does this convince you not to believe in God? No, eh? Then why would I trust the word of someone who had the opposite experience? Personal experience does NOT prove anything. Not my position and not yours either.

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    • imsteph
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:43pm

      the people who own the billboards should just smile politely and cash their check saying-”Thank you Jesus ;) all the way to the bank!”

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    • READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:05pm

      @ Gombo,

      Excellent sarcasm, I hear your point. Please know that not every Christian imagines hell for every one with a different opinion than their own. Crying out Jesus’ name is not the only test of faith, nor the guarantor of eternal rest with God, just as Atheist inspired comments do not cement eternal damnation. God is much more fair, reasonable, and loving to permanently disavow his children for being foolish in their interpretations of life. Christianity is a message to be delivered with care and concern to all the world. Representatives of that message need to possess compassion not judgment. Unfortunately some of us are foolish, too. Thank God for mercy, for without it we would truly be lost.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:33pm

      @INVERSIONARY THEORY I have always had faith in God..and He has rewarded that faith..I know that He is the great…I AM.. I read once in the Bible that if you do not live in Him..then you will die without instruction.. and it happened once…and I was in sheer panic..not knowing where to go or what to do..but He allowed me to come back.. I never lost consciousness.. A child who dies and is not at the age of accountability..will not be held responsible..but someone who has reached the age of accountability and has heard the word of God and rejects Him..will be held accountable..The ones who are in Him when they die..will go to a peaceful resting place..while the ones not in Him..will go to a place of torment to await judgement. You were only dead for 5 minutes..and you returned..Don’t you suppose that you came back for a reason? Your destination was intended to be here..for the time being. If God wants you…He will have you. I read a book once of a preacher and his wife..her brother..a devout atheist came to visit..he requested to see their new church..he didn’t even get through the church door and he fell on his face before the Lord with conviction in his heart…You cannot come to Him unless He calls you..then the choice is yours.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:46pm

      “Evolution IS an Intelligent Design”
      (The bumper sticker I made for my car several years ago)

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:50pm

      I’m just dreaming and everyone is a product of my vivid imagination…. some are friends and some are not.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:53pm

      Isn’t that shade of purple the same as the one used in the upside-down triangle of a certain group of people? BTW… Free the Rainbows!!!

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    • InversionTheory
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:23pm

      Ashes… I have not considered any purpose to my life other than that I have assigned. I do not believe in God…and if it is God’s purpose for me to spread that message, he is cruel indeed. I saw my experience as confirmation of what I believe in my heart. I do not now, and never have, seen any logical reason to believe in the God of the Bible. Apparently, asking someone to logically justify their ideas is evil and if so, I embrace evil. I eagerly await the spontaneous regeneration of an amputated limb without medical intervention to prove me wrong. If you would pray for anything, pray for that… I’d really have to re-think things in light of that evidence.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:14pm

      @INVERSION THEORY We are only here in earth suits my friend..God placed us here with a mission..and I believe that mission is to find our way back to him.. Do I believe it is possible to have a limb regenerated..yes..I believe anything is possible..but faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You know..this life on earth is a lot shorter than what you may now think..and if you ask God for the faith in all sincerity..He will give it to you..I have learned to ask for the important things in life..the things that glorify Him..because in the end..that is all there is..In Him..we have the hope of life eternal..I believe shortly that the rapture of the church is coming..and some here who do not believe will be saved during that time..and some will live into the millenial kingdom..have young perfect bodies and will live without sin for a thousand years..the children born into that millenial reign will be tempted at the end of the riegn and will be known as the children of the rebellion..They along with Satan will be cast into the bottomless pit..THen a new heaven and a new earth will appear.. and we will live a beautiful life with Christ in eternity..the ones who are raptured out before the tribulation begins will be there also.but will be as angels. able to travel as angels do. There is so much more than this life has to offer.. This is our chance here..the only chance we get..I feel you are burdened..cast your burdens upon Him..

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:18pm

      @INVERSION THEORY.. He will set you free.. I know it is hard..but please don’t falter or ever give up..I believe He is calling you..and please remember to keep asking Him to make you strong and to keep you close..He will.. Know this and have that faith..It only takes the faith of a mustard seed..Ask Him to show you without a doubt to give you the strength and an unshakeable conviction..I hope you walk up to me in the millienial kingdom and introduce yourself.. God Bless You my friend..

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    • OklahomaBound
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:02am

      I would climb up there with some black spray paint and paint over the words so it said “God is a Friend.“ Then change the hate groups moniker to ”The Colorado Coalition of TReason.”

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    • MaxRygar
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:08am

      I’m going to upset some of you on my first post here.
      Most of you here posting can understand that a large majority of the world, in general, are believers of a god or God. However, many like atheists turn ‘anti-religious’ beliefs into their religion and their billboard is their preaching tool. Their hateful fists raised at an empty sky and their middle finger pointed at morality in general. Oh, but wait, in the world there does exists FALSE religion everywhere, and because people are easily informed or “brainwashed” for that matter, they can easily see how false and disgusting the acts of FALSE religion are.
      I say FALSE, because like in the Highlander movie, there can only be ONE. One true people accepted by God Almighty. Every single human being on this planet has a job they did not sign up for, and that is to reach salvation, to survive the promised destruction of the wicked in our Earth. A good portion of you talk about hell like you’ve been there yourself, hell is here on Earth, living with all these awful human beings, full of greed and hatred and with a the other things that make this Earth a Hell. C’mon man, have you seen some of these Gargoyles that run our country?
      Here is the key, find God, and I don’t mean, Jesus (God’s son of course, i mean his Dad) and not the thousands of ancient deities , no,I mean really find our creator. Find his real name. Then you may start on a path to true salvation. Salvation from what? Armageddon of course. duh.

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    • db321
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:29am

      Have you noticed that most Atheist spend every waking hour of every day tying to prove that something they don‘t believe in doesn’t exist – Isn’t that insanity!

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:45am

      It’s funny. “We’re more interested in opening a dialogue than upsetting you.”

      If that was true, they wouldn’t have said what they said.

      It really boils down to busy bodies and the old addage that misery loves company.

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    • Rainman3769
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:53am

      Really? “Most”? “Every minute of every day?” your comment is what insanity is. Truly you don’t actually believe that? So millions of people literally do NOTHING except try to stamp out god? Is that REALLY what you are saying? Come on Theodwulf they come right out and say they arent trying to offend christians, just get a dialogue going.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:44am

      There is simply no power on earth stronger than PRAYER. God speaks to us through Scripture and we answer Him with our PRAYERS. God is our Mighty Defender, our Creator, our Rock, our Protector…He created us, just as buildings didn‘t build themselves or great meals didn’t appear alone.. neither did we.

      The saddest thing on earth to see is a person who tries to deny the existence of their Creator. But now, this is much more than a “difference of opinion” folks…this is an out and out attempt by groups who want to destroy America to discourage Believers. Also this is Satan trying to corrupt and destroy God’s people. PS for the poster who said Christians take great pleasure in thinking of themselves as saved and others as not…how sad are you? True Christians know they have no say in whomever GOD saves and that there are many routes up the mountain to meet Jesus, that this life is but moments in GOD’S time and an opportunity for people to CHOSE GOD! Unlike the cult known as Islam (Satan inspired and man designed), GOD wants us to come to Him of our free will and this is our opportunity to make that choice (this life). Cultist and Satanists will use every device to discourage us, because they know that ALL we have to do to prove the existence of GOD is to ask Him. All we have to do is get off by ourselves and with an open heart, ASK HIM “are you for REAL, GOD?” and then wait (not long) and we will get the answer.

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    • mocnarf
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:45am

      They are cowards… If they really wanted make a statement, they would have worded it more like this:
      “What does God, Allah, Jehovah, and Thor have in common… They they are all imaginary.”

      Of coarse, they are way to much of a coward to ever put an insult to Allah on a billboard. What cowards! They only insult those, they know will allow their heads to remain attached to their bodies!

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    • SEPARATENOW
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 6:33am

      I’m an atheist and want to disavow anything these people do. Religion, or lack thereof, is a personal choice and right. Let’s keep it that way. (And public displays of other religions do not offend me.) Militant atheism, like militant anythingism, is usually a problem.

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    • Better Dead Than Red
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:32am

      SEPARATE, thank you for your post.

      You could not have said it better than I!!

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    • ZeldaZick
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:49am

      The Christian Faith is based on Historical Fact. Christ has risen, Christ has risen indeed!

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    • maroon67
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 11:01am

      Please read these messages from our Lady, Jesus Christ, and Our Father! They have been happening since November 8th, 2010. The Warning is coming very shortly!

      http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/hear-my-urgent-plea-to-pray-for-the-souls-of-atheists/

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 11:36am

      The difference between this billboard and putting a cross on public land is that the atheists paid for this billboard.

      Go carry a cross in protest. lol

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    • spirit of freedom
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:56pm

      “every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that he is the ONE TRUE GOD” they will stand before him and be judged, like it or not. tell me how imaginary he is then!! hahaha. i love how they are not trying to bother anyone with thier stupidity, just trying to open up dialog. rofl! not trying to offend. right! its just that they are tired of having religion forced on them. so how do they respond? by forcing thier godless religion down everyones throat. hypocracy at its finest. priceless!!!

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    • Bad_Ashe
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:56pm

      I’m really not sure why everyone is so upset about this, as this is actually quite complimentary. Atheists are simply adding God to the list of imaginary things that they compulsively can’t stop rambling on about. We may not agree with this assessment of God’s nonexistence, but as one can clearly see, atheists actually LOVE their imaginary things.

      For example:

      1. Secular Utopia

      2. Atheist Reason

      3. Atheist Social Skills

      4. Anti-Science Republicanism and Religiousness

      5. Atheist Higher Intelligence

      See what I mean? All of these are demonstrably imaginary, outright false, or believed in by the atheist to such an extreme that they cease to resemble reality. Yet the atheist drones on and on about them as if afflicted by some sort of social disorder.

      Considering atheists hold all of these imaginary things in such high esteem, one can only conclude that they hold God (by their thinking, the ultimate imaginary belief) to such heights that it can only be described as — well, heavenly.

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    • DivineIntervention
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:42pm

      No God=No Hell=No guilt for morally reprehensible acts,or sin’s,so rape,murder,steal,e.t.c.Who will hold you responsible?No God,no guilt.

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    • mils
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:39pm

      we do not understand their frantic efforts to have us not believe there is no God.
      why can’t they just laugh and walk away?
      It sure appears to make them furious!!!

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    • ShawnB
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 5:34am

      @Igasper but Hitler is there in heaven. I mean I am going to hell because I dont believe in God but Hitler is in heaven since he was a “ I am a devout christian” and used things such as the books of Moses to defend there actions towards the Jews. Okay, he was evil but according to Christians all you have to do is accept Christ and Hitler said he did. In fact he outlawed atheism. Wow to me it seems sad that you guys will be in heaven while your friends and family are burning along with billions of others for not believing. Sick part is you all call that paradise but I dont know I would rebel and try to save them since its forever and that seems a little unjust and not fair.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:37am

      The colorado coalition of intolerence is a better name. Why is Christianity to only acceptable target of bigotry. Maybe it’s time to unite under one banner and crush these intolerent bastards drive them back under the rock from which they came.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:00am

      Cursed be the grounds for our sake. Both thorn and thisle it shall bring forth for us. From out of the ground we were taken from the dust we are and so to the dust we shall return.
      Now alot of people would see the ground as only th earth surfaces. However I see it as the enviroment of a society. And our is cursed not to punish the sinner but to test faithful. We have created an enviroment where immorality,narsicism,greed,and debautchery. Temptations are many and virtue is ridiculed. America has become a modern day sodom and gomorrah.

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:36pm

      Perhaps the billboard would be more to your liking if there were a dead fetus on it?

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:45pm

      Faith, I wonder if the 700 Club website also shows Pat Robertson’s profits from his blood diamond mines in Africa.

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  • Roger Finkelstein
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:07pm

    It has been said that Athiests are the most surprised when they die.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:12pm

      That makes zero sense because you can’t be surprised when you die because….you’re dead!

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    • DJ in AZ
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:23pm

      ModerationIsBest, It makes perfect sense because only your body dies, and your spirit still lives. Life of the spirit does not end at death of the body.

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    • Polarized America
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:35pm

      Roger, maybe you’re trying to say this

      i swear there ain‘t no heven and i pray there ain’t no hell,

      a good song by Blood,” Sweat & Tears ” called when i die
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5Drfd1NRE&feature=fvsr

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:30pm

      There is no proof of a “spirit”

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    • mandmsgirl
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:39pm

      To moderationisbest: I’m sorry but atheists will be most surprised when they die. I was raised in an atheist family. I died on an operating table when I was in my 30′s. This has been verified by the doctor. I went to hell. Not a nice place. Christ came, He said I didn’t belong there. I am alive today because of Him. I am writing a book about my experience. I hope it will help others.

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    • rush_is_right
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:56pm

      “I went to hell. Not a nice place. Christ came, He said I didn’t belong there.”

      interesting….I tend not to believe those who say they saw some light…but I’ve heard doctors who have resuscitated people..and when they first wake up they talk about hell…then totally repress it..and when the doctor asks them about it a few days later they deny it…it was so horrific…

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    • Miyegombo Bayartsogt
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:20pm

      We don’t have bodies, we are bodies. Once the body dies, the brain dies and then there is nothing. Why does something so natural as death surprise anyone?

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:29pm

      @MANDMSGIRL

      If you aren’t dead, then you didn’t die! Your doctor was just a misapprehension.

      Let me ask you. Are you going to distribute your book for free or are you going to charge a price for it?

      If you’re going to charge a price for your book, i can’t help but laugh at the hypocrisy of it.

      Peddle your book to easily influenced people to try to validate their claims. Give me a break.

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    • reasonablerhetoric
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:19pm

      The phenomenon of “near death experiences” actually have a logical theory. We have a natural chemical in our brain that causes hallucinations when unregulated, and trauma has potential to release it in unregulated doses in the brain. This of course can cause such hallucinations as “light beyond the tunnel”. Such experiences are very irregular.

      And also, the obvious fact that if you truly died, you’re not “coming back to life”. The heart, the brain, the cells, the organs to not shut off as quickly as a flat line. Even if doctors loose response, you’re body is still technically alive in the sense that cells and organs are still functioning. So many people seem not to understand the true functioning of a body.

      As a post script, a doctor decided to test out such claims, and put pictures on a wall that someone could only see ascending up (those “out of body” experiences some people claim.) No one who has claimed of an experience yet has been able to say what those pictures are, even though they should of easily seen them if they were truly floating in the room.

      Such experiences are the most bogus “proofs” there are to an afterlife when not only has no one died, but the brain is so prone to hallucinations.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:05pm

      My pastors’ pastor told us what had happened in his experience..an atheist was on an operating table and he was dying and seeing hell..he begged his doctor to save him.. telling him he was in hell..asking him if he knew a prayer to say for him..the doctor being an atheist himself had heard the sinner’s prayer on television..so he said that prayer for the atheist…then the man started saying ” oh thank you doctor..I am seeing heaven now thank you. and then when the man awoke..he couldn’t remember being in hell..but he could remember heaven..but the doctor remembered his being in hell..and hence..two men got saved..

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    • Rainman3769
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:14am

      . . . . What?

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    • Jack of Hearts
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 10:39am

      @Rainman3769
      It’s called an urban myth. My uncle‘s neighbour’s cousin told me she swears she heard it on a Greyhound bus once.

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    • Bad_Ashe
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:16pm

      @MODERATIONISBEST — My goodness, but aren‘t you one of the more logically deficient atheist trolls I’ve seen on these threads in a long time. It really is stunning, you make repeated claims of logic, yet you are so clearly bad at applying it.

      In the case of MANDMSGIRL, please explain the hypocrisy of writing about one’s personal experience and then taking advantage of the capitalist system in order to sell it to those who might be interested in it. Where precisely is the hypocrisy?

      When atheists pony up the dough for the pleasure of lapping up Richard Dawkins’ laughable regurgitant, are they acting hypocritically as well? This too is an example of readers buying a book with which they already agree in order to validate their claims.

      Go back to your momma’s basement, little troll; you aren’t tall enough for this ride.

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    • A Conservatarian
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:53pm

      Rhetoric – the out of body death experiences that don’t quite fit your puzzle include those people who have flatlined, say they are floating in the room AND hear what the doctors/nurses are saying and after having their heartbeat restored, tell those assembled what they heard though they were technically dead.

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    • TakeBackAmerica
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:32pm

      LOL love it.

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:40pm

      DJ in AZ, please show me proof of existence without a body and brain. I’d like to see it.

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  • Tomr
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:05pm

    What amazes me is that atheists believe in nothing yet they believe there is nothing greater than themselves. Neither can be proven and thus must be accepted on faith. When one has faith then one has religon. However, I prefere my Christian religon to theirs.

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    • beckwasfox
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:12pm

      Let them continue to spend their time, money and energy opposing a being they profess unbelief in. It demonstrates how flawed their reasoning is.

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    • stpppim
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:14pm

      To believe in something on faith alone is irrational, leaving no possibility to accept the truth once revealed and not correct oneself. But such irrationality can be used to justify terrible actions.
      To believe in something through fully rational reasoning give the best possibility of accepting the truth once revealed and correct oneself when wrong. Rational thinking can be useful in avoiding terrible mistakes in judgment.

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    • LibertarianForLife
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:16pm

      What an absolutely terrible bit of reasoning. You are comparing atheists – who base things off the facts, and things we can see, to the religous – who make up gods by the dozen and in some cases write fairy tales to support them. Why do you not believe in Zeus, or Apollo, or the circle of reincarnation? Other then the fact that you were born here, you have no reason to believe christianity over all the other nonsensical religions. You are exactly what is wrong with society.

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    • robinakilt
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:31pm

      @ Libertarian4life why does that thinking constitute what is wrong with society? I am surprised to hear that statement from someone who by their screen name claims to be a libertarian. First of all as a libertarian myself I am a believer in the one true GOD, that being said I support anyone’s decision to believe whatever they want to believe and would fight to protect that right for them even if I think they are a loon. I can take that stand because my eternity is not effected by anything you do or believe, it is only effected by my choices in life. God does not want anyone brought to him by force but by their own choice. God is where freedom dwells, God is proven by science to exist if you open your mind and look at what is right in front of us all. One example, God created the heavens and the earth from nothing….A lot Physicists who are atheists believe in string theory and string theory states and I am paraphrasing here that our universe was created from an explosion that was smaller than the size of a pinhead and the universe expanded on many dimensional planes. Sounds like our universe was created from nothing to me.

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    • beckwasfox
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:33pm

      I like the line-”I don’t have enough faith to be an Atheist”. Atheists are dogmatic and religious and can‘t even see that they’re beliefs aren’t based on fact but lies.

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    • RIGEL_ORION
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:37pm

      Sorry Libertarian, you are incorrect.

      Atheists are simply interpreting a set of facts as they PERCEIVE them. Nothing more. Nothing less. Their continuing folly lies in the act of mistaking their perception for truth and using this fallacy as a justification for disrespecting the equally valid perceptions of others.

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    • A Conservatarian
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:38pm

      Libertarian for life … if Atheists were intelligent, rational and based their thinking on fact, they’d stop trying to disprove the existence of a concept-less non-thing.

      It’s why I have so much fun with Atheists – do tell me, define that which you are trying to disprove. Communicate what IT is. If a word does not have a concept attached to it… it communicates no thing. Have fun reading sentences with the non-word God in it :) It’s kinda fun when you figure that part out, sentences turn into absolute gibberish.

      Theists, don’t go getting cute either, please do define God for me, communicate what it is – without using any historical definition of what God is and without using a dialectic to define what god is not or what ‘is not’ God.

      :P This should get interesting, lol.

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    • boundforglory
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:39pm

      Have you noticed that when even these atheists are down on their luck, low on money and dont know how they are gonna pay that one bill. When they get a letter in the mail and it has money in it that a family member or friend has sent to them and they can pay that bill, you know that first words out of their mouths is: THANK GOD !! My sister is a confirmed atheist and says she doesnt believe in God, but I have heard her say thank God a few times, go figure! I guess when they get to hell because of refuseing God, they can tell themselves: i’m not here and this place doesnt exsist!

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    • Cooper707
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:07pm

      Lovin‘ all these ’religious’ people. Aye folks, doesn’t it say any where in your fairy tale that you should not pass judgement onto others? Because I‘m pretty sure if there was a rapture tomorrow you’d all be joining us atheists in hell. Sorry.

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    • holy ghostbuster
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:41pm

      @ Robinakilt – how can you say that the world around us is proof of a god or that since the universe was created from nothing, it had to be god? I don’t know would be a more honest answer. Just because something cannot yet be explained, does not prove that a god was responsible.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:44pm

      @A CONSERVATARIAN

      Why should I have to “disprove” someone else’s claim? It is the person who is making the claim that something exists who has to prove it.

      I believe we are all tied into the Matrix, and none of this is real. Prove me wrong. See how silly that is?

      Atheism is a rejection of belief. As an atheist, I am simply saying I haven’t been given enough evidence to believe in their claim.

      If someone says they were abducted by aliens, do you just flat out accept that? Do you ask them questions and seek proof? Or do you take it upon yourself to DISPROVE that they weren’t abducted? What if their evidence is insufficient to you?

      Why do Christians not believe in Allah? Maybe Christians are the ones that are wrong? Would they still be a Christian if they were born in Iran? Or more likely would they believe that Allah was the one true God and every other religion was false? I’m sure people who believed in Zeus and Apollo felt the same way.

      Fact is, Christianity wasn‘t the first religion and it sure as heck wont’ be the last. Christianity hijacked Judaism and simply made Jesus God, so they wouldn’t be breaking the 1st commandment.

      Mormonism hijacked Christianity, as did Islam. Judaism hijacked their beliefs by taking a buffet style selection process to the other beliefs that were prevalent at and around that time. They then took those beliefs and fit it to a story around their people.

      God isn’t real, neither is Jesus, or Allah, or Z

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:49pm

      Great video.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlUF_tKZbDk&feature=related

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:08pm

      Cooper, no the Bible does not say what you say it says. And, you are also very misinformed about what gets one to heaven or heII. You should sit with a believer who knows a bit about their Bible and justification. You don’t.

      Moderation, although you are incorrect in most of your suppositions, I can perfectly understand how you’ve arrived at your beliefs. Please don’t stay there, for your pride will be your downfall and that is totally unnecessary. I can feel your hurt and pain, and hope you keep searching because I know it is well worth the time spent.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:06pm

      @SPARKY101

      You would be surprised at how very little pride I have.

      I just value logic and common sense.

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    • Spqr1
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:38pm

      Believing in nothing is Nihilism, not Atheism. I suggest a basic dictionary….

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    • A Conservatarian
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:40pm

      MODERATIONISBEST – Tell that to Richard Dawkins. It’s an exercise MIB and besides the Law of Noncontradiction already disproves your little sarcastic thought-joke of proving you wrong how we’re not jacked into the matrix.

      Back to Dawkins, he’s always trying to disprove the existence of God: that if there was this thing God out there, there should be some evidence laying around. It’s asinine. He’s trying to apply Scientific Hypothesis to a metaphysical non-thing, that has no definition and no concept. All he has to do is say there is no concept, hence nothing to prove or disprove, get back to me when you have a concept or at least a definition.

      Regarding an Atheist and rejection. In order to reject something, it has to be some thing. Is God a thing? Oops, we’re getting into definitions and concepts. Maybe as you said: God isn’t real….God is not real. Now you’re telling me what God is not. How do you know anything about that which is not definable or conceptual? You don‘t even know what you’re rejecting. On the flip side, no one knows what they’re accepting with God either. It’s not communicable, conceptual, definable, hence the word intellectually (as close as I can get it analogously) is a void. E.G. I don’t believe in _______. That’s what it looks like to me when you act the Atheist. Get back to me when you can define God and actually use the word in a sentence, then I’ll entertain what you do not believe. Get it?

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    • A Conservatarian
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:51pm

      By the way, I’m not Atheist or Theist. It’s a false dichotomy :)

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    • Bad_Ashe
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:39pm

      @MODERATIONISBEST —

      Oh little atheist, the problem is that you clearly don’t understand how this works, or the difference between supported and unsupported assertions. You were doing okay until you stated:

      “God isn’t real, neither is Jesus, or Allah, or Z”

      With this statement, you’re now the one making the claim that needs to be supported, whether it is a negative claim or not. The philosophical burden of proof is on you to support your assertion.

      If I were to make the “positive” assertion that “It is likely that god exists”, I would then provide evidence for the theological, the cosmological, the teleological, the moral, the aesthetic, and the ontological arguments to support my assertion. However, I did not assert anything outside of your ignorance, which is pretty apparent.

      You have made a “negative” assertion, however, and the burden is now on you to support that assertion. I’ll even make it easier for you and remove Zeus and Allah from the picture, so you simply have to support you claim that “God” and “Jesus” do not exist.

      I look forward to your response, as well as the poor logic and evidentiary cherry-picking that will surely exist within it.

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    • Tomr
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:07am

      @ModerationIsBest

      “Atheism is a rejection of belief.”

      Atheism is the acceptance of a belief that God does not exist. Although I believe strongly thah God does exist, neither of us can prove our points. Therefore, we both accept our beliefs based on faith and will continue to practice our religions accordingly.

      God bless you and may He shine His light upon you.

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:43pm

      Conservatarian, no one is trying to disprove god. We are merely waiting for you to prove its existence.

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  • JohnGalt007
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:05pm

    Religious is defined as relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity. Atheists are religious and atheism is a religion. By their own admission, these types of billboards are trying to proselytize to those of us that do not believe in their religion. Everything they say others are trying to do, they do. And they are winning, look at our schools for instance.

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    • selloursouls
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:26pm

      If only atheists actually understood this fact.

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    • Hossua
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:48pm

      WAH, WAH, WAH. An atheist group put up a billboard. There are Christian billboards everywhere. Stop hating.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:14pm

      Hossua, but the Christian messages I‘ve seen on billboards aren’t attacking someone’s core beliefs. I’ve never seen one that says “Atheists are stupid,” which is just about what the atheist billboard message says about Christians. Mean people suck.

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    • Rainman3769
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:37am

      @Sparky Well how would you propose they get their beliefs out there then? Its not that they are being mean, there just isnt really any other way to get their message across.

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    • jay1975
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 10:21am

      Sparky101, you need to do a quick search on the web to find Christian billboards referring to atheists as traitors, America haters and worse. Christian hypocrites permeate throughout this nation.

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    • snidelywhiplash
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:09pm

      If only that bore any relationship to reality, it’d be a good comment.

      For a belief to be a religion, it has to include faith. Atheism has no faith in anything that cannot be proven. The existence of God and particularly things like the Resurrection and the afterlife are not proven, and have no empirical evidence to support them. Thus, faith comes into play. You have FAITH that God exists, that Christ is the Lord and Savior, and if you follow Him you’ll go to heaven when you die.

      Atheists say “Eh…no proof. Sorry, I can’t accept that.” That’s it. Geez, I’m not even an atheist and I know this.

      Some atheists are jerks about their atheism, but a lot of them come by it honestly – they feel persecuted and hounded by the constant barrage of religion they get in every day life, particularly in politics. You know, like the way Christians claim they are persecuted and hounded for their beliefs (We make up 80% of the country, and you can‘t hardly get elected to office if you’re not a Christian, but we’re persecuted. Gotcha.)

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    • Bad_Ashe
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:48pm

      Remember everyone, atheism is simply the act of non-belief, it isn’t a religion at all — except for the organized belief system (humanism), the aggressive proselytizing (books, billboards), the request to be recognized as a belief system (military chaplaincy), and you know, the temples. Yep…temples.

      http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/25/alain-de-botton-plans-temples-for-atheists/

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  • flygirl1
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:03pm

    Welcome to Hell!

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  • momsense
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:01pm

    Atheists Are Imaginary People—-Choose God !

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  • ToddinVB
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:00pm

    Hmmm. I hope their plan works out for them. I would kinda suck to be wrong.

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  • Berbel73
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:59pm

    Please don’t be offended we are just mocking your most dearly held belief because we want to fundamentally change the United States of America into a GODless nation were our freedoms will no longer come from GOD but from man and thusly they can be changed or eliminated at will. That’s all, so don’t take it to heart.

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    • TexasHunter
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:04pm

      Someone needs to put a “Jesus Is Watching You” billboard right next to that one!

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    • elihu
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:05pm

      BERBEL73;
      I’m not offended. Your comments don’t affect me in the least. In the final scheme of things you are the one who will be most surprised. I will pray for you my friend.
      >

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    • TexasHunter
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:08pm

      Eli – Read the article my friend.

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    • angeleyes63
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:35pm

      You mean remove God from America so communism will flourish and in the end none will be free. You and your ilk will not know freedom only despair.

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    • Hossua
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:53pm

      Rights come from the creator. Just because you don’t believe in “God” doesn’t mean you completely rule out a creator.

      I don’t understand atheist groups. Might as well blindly believe in the flying spaghetti monster if you want to join a group. Maybe they get tired of the Christians broadcasting their religion everywhere, and treating anyone else doing the same as an attack on Christianity.

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    • Berbel73
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:00pm

      I apologize, I thought that my sarcasm would be evident. I guess if you haven’t seen my previous posts here that you might think that I was being serious. I do however believe that that is what their intent is by trying to eliminate GOD from society.

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    • Rajabear1
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:01pm

      Berbel73
      your sarcasm came through loud and clear on the first read. Laughed to myself cuz it was exactly what I was thinking when reading the article and comments. In fact, this is the first time in weeks I’ve commented on anything here because objectivity, sarcasm and humor seem to have left this site of late for the most part and I wanted to encourage you to keep it up. It’s refreshing.
      Funny how folks don’t seem to be able to decipher all sorts of things these days–very quick on the draw–not really seeing what’s right in front of them–in fact, so quick to draw, they shoot themselves in the foot. Maybe people should take a breath and not look at the surface, but more so the content and they would absolutely see the sarcasm in your post—that goes for a lot of other things, too.

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    • Rainman3769
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:53am

      @ Houssa. There is as much proof that the flying spaghetti monster exists as there is proving God exists, and I mean all the “gods” throughout time, not just the christian one.

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    • the wireworker
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:19pm

      @ berebel73

      I understood you sarcasm.

      what is truly amazing is that if you just look at the history of the United States you can see what taking God out of a society does, especially when we WERE created under judeo-christian principles.
      God tells us in the old testament that Blessed is the NATION who calls me Lord. In the new testament Jesus tells us “it would have been better for you on that day to not have known me than to have known me and let me go” remember “every TONGUE, TRIBE AND NATION” will be judged.
      my point being is that we have had the blessings of God upon this nation (athiest live under those same blessings yet do not recognize it’s originator.) The ten commandments are not restrictive, they are the tenants for a free society, the more internal restraint you have the less external restraint you will need.
      THE MORE WE REMOVE GOD FROM OUR SOCIETY AND THE HEARTS OF MAN THROUGH THE CODE WORDS TOLERANCE, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, AND THE LIKE THE MORE FREEDOMS WE LOSE AND THE CLOSER WE SPIRAL TO THE CESSPOOL OF THE RELIGION OF SATAN HIMSELF “SOCIALISM”

      if you want power to control a people you can either take the Word of God and control the message (that has happened but we had a reformation, man knew the power of God’s message to control the masses, God knew it would be better for each individual to have that message to control oneself) or you can take The Word of God and (try to) completely destroy it (and live by man made freedoms).
      KEEP

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    • Berbel73
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:56pm

      I just assumed that throught my correct capitalization of GOD, rather than God or god that people would realize that I was in fact a believer. Atheists don‘t believe in GOD and thusly don’t give him the respect that he deserves by writting his name correctly. Thanks to the atheists/progressives and their misintrepretation of the first amendment we have allowed them to remove any mention of GOD in government which completely goes against what our founding fathers intended.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:58pm

    .
    What? No,I’m not hitting you up-side your head with a stick! It must be your imagination……

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    • islamhater
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:04pm

      who‘s care’s you don‘t like it don’t read it it’s easy. Churches do it all the time.

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  • Locked
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:56pm

    Well, it’s their own waste of money. If you get your information from billboards, you’re probably not the thinking type of person anyway… let the anti-theistic atheists have them.

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    • RIGEL_ORION
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:28pm

      Agreed. There are some interesting bits of irony within this story though.

      A group demanding with righteous indignation their right to be free from spiritual viewpoints being thrust upon them…..repeatedly goes out of its way to intrude its spiritual viewpoints on others.

      Demand others respect differing viewpoints… while distributing messaging openly mocking and hostile of these views in others.

      While its not uncommon for those preaching tolerance to be the least tolerant, it is a little funny to see this type of illogical behavior from a group of people who base their belief – in their ability to use logic and reason.

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  • smalls
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:55pm

    Examples are proselytizing in the military, educational systems, and government. Another example is the attacks by religious people on gays, lesbians, and abortion providers. Proselytizing? Really? Trying to convert military, students, and government to religion? Since when? When have we tried to convert our military to christian? Our government? The billboard made me laugh. The kind of laugh when you know something the other person doesnt. If I am wrong I have wasted nothing more than good fellowship with friends, good teaching, trying to live in a more loving way, and a few extra loads of laundry for church clothes. If you are wrong you are going to burn in hell for eternity. Makes me think of the Dane Cook skit when the athiest sneezed on him. LOL

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    • stpppim
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:05pm

      If you are wrong then you have corrupted your life with irrational contradictions handicapping your cognitive ability and misinterpreting perceptions. Furthermore you are accepting ALTRUISM as your moral base.

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    • smalls
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:21pm

      So there is a problem with being nice to others? That has corrupted my life? Get a clue.

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    • stpppim
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 7:10am

      Smalls,
      Being nice to and valuing others is not a sacrifice. Exchanging something of greater value for lesser is sacrifice. Sacrificing your life for the sake of all others, especially those you do not value is Altruism.

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:54pm

    Even if God is an imaginary friend I can’t help but wonder why it ****** off Atheists. Are they against Imagination or Friends?

    Maybe they just have to disprove His existence to feel better about themselves.

    Either way, a wise man is only certain that he can’t be certain. I wish they’d all shut up about it…

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:01pm

      Maybe they‘re tired of people of faith voting in politicians who are people of faith and then passing legislation forcing the people to conform their behavior to someone’s religious beliefs.

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    • islamhater
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:22pm

      Be‘ing good person and have’ing good morale‘s doesn’t mean you have to believe in god. But if it help’s go for it.Bothside’s on the issue of god need to chill especialy the atheist.Freedom of religion is why aheist came to America in the first place.Knowing it was a mostly christian country. Founded on those beliefs. Let people live their live’s freely.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:24pm

      So, Moderation, you are saying it’s okay for you to force your beliefs on others, but not okay for others to defend their beliefs against your onslaught? Pretty foolish position. I’d ask you to stop trying to force your beliefs down my throat, but I’d be wasting my breath talking to your wall of hatred.

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  • TexasHunter
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:54pm

    I copied this link off another fellow blazer. Some are very interesting to read. If you do not believe in the Lord, read some of the postings and maybe you can see the “signs” of what is unfolding. People try so hard not to believe in God. It would be easier to try to believe in at least something.

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:54pm

    Communist

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  • stpppim
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:52pm

    Ayn Rand’s famous quote in her novel “We the Living” -
    “…whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one’s highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It’s a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it. ”
    And in Atlas Shrugged she writes:
    “For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors – between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.”

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:24pm

      The elephant in the room- ayn rand-is that we die.The good news of jesus christ He promises us eternal life-i’ll give up my human pride and go for salvation .

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    • Hossua
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:28pm

      Meh, we all die. Millions died before Jesus, I think we will be OK.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:32pm

      Stppim, apparently you don’t know your scriptures, for you have a warped understanding of what they say. If you were to study them, you will be very surprised at how wrong you are about the Christian life and its abundance.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:59pm

      @DEMO..You are right not to believe in the Abrahamic religion..as I said..it was a church who wanted to take Jerusalem for their city and that is why they shaped Mohammad’s visions for him ..It is an entirely a manmade Babylonian religion..They have some aspects of the faith..but it has a twisted manipulative bent to it. I believe the Muslims are a sincere people..but have been schisted..In 2001..a Muslim cleric was saying that 6 million Muslims a year converted to Christianity..missionaries were on their knees praying and Jesus was appearing in dreams to these Muslims and performing miracles and healings.. I have heard that they continue to be Christianized at that rate. praise be to God.. God the Father says that there is no way to Him but through His Son…If you don’t believe..please ask God to show you..He will absolutely show you if you are sincere. God establlshes Himself as the Father God Supreme and He calls Jesus God.the Son..You can see this in Hebrews 1 and in John 1.. There are things you will see that will make you know that He is As for the Muslims thinking that Jesus is equal with the other prophets..no He is not..He is above the angels.. and we are below the angels..If you do not have faith..please ask God for an unshakeable faith..He will give it to you.. And depending how willing and deep you are prepared to go..you will be amazed on a daily basis..

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    • A Conservatarian
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:11am

      STPPPM Very nice. Rose-Ellen – Death is not an Elephant in the room for her. She understood science quite well, including the first law of thermodynamics – that energy is neither created nor destroyed, hence when you die you don’t turn into nothing, Transmuted though you may be, into your children and children’s children, and the universe around them. Hopefully you don’t have the idea that Science is not spiritual; to the contrary it’s a highly spiritual study.

      Sparky – he quoted someone, he didn’t say anything besides that. :)

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    • A Conservatarian
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:19am

      and btw Rose-Ellen, consider immortality in another way, the DNA running through you is beyond ancient. Another recent finding of a Physicist, Roger Penrose, is the cosmic background radiation displays ripples emanating from before the big bang, he has the proof. This means there was a universe before the big bang. Penrose also states his math shows that before that universe, was another etc. It’s amazing stuff, check him out on wikipedia, his findings shifts the entire science debate now… consider, what makes up your body, the energy, the matter, I don‘t have a word for how old it is because we’re now talking multiples of the age of the universe now – it makes me smile. That life can survive the big bang is beyond spiritual. Anyhow :) Cosmology, logic, spirituality – non of it is mutually exclusive.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 9:17am

      That we are made of the elements of the cosmos is irrelevant to the self. if my self dies with my body then i-as a conscious self cease to be and it is that elephant in the room which ayn rand and other athiests find acceptable.One’s own demise [and that of our loved ones] is an abomination and from that abomination religion posits the soul and christianity flows from that .Christianity takes that bull by the horns without equivocation and the cross[ the body that dies] is transfored into the resurrection[eternal life of the self].Onlly that satisfies the human heart.Knowing my dna is ancient and lives on in my descendents is irrelevant to my consciousness of myself.Ayn rand is bringing in the kitchen sink to deflect from the only question that matters-do we have an eternal soul ? Christ takes that question head on and answers it affirmative. hence it is the only good news that speaks directly to our human condition.

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    • A Conservatarian
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:32pm

      Again, the same energy allowing you to say anything about your self is not indestructible. It does not cease to be at death and even she knew that. Besides, she still could not get around, well what she called the Benevolent Universe – if that’s not a higher power, I do not know what is.

      What Rand did say was that the question of what happens after death ceases to be relevant as self – qua self. Being qua being, roughly ‘being as being’; its a metaphysical idea, highly logical. Basically it states when you’re not yourself anymore (room temperature, dead, not animated by the soul), thinking ceases to be relevant as thought by the self. Well, that’s nothing but true. Rand was only parroting Aristotle on that point, nothing more. Aristotle’s higher power or God if you will, is the unmoved mover. That’s another fascinating idea but, for another time.

      The destruction of being/energy, self turning into nothingness (as opposed to the ending of self as being: self) everything someone is and was becoming nothing? Nope. Rand just didn’t want or look for any explanation of what is beyond death, as it has nothing to do with the living as being. Religion is not necessary to know eternity is mine already (and yours too :).

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    • A Conservatarian
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:38pm

      Annnnd death as an abomination. No. Not even close. It’s called natural, just like birth.

      If death was unnatural, it would not exist as all that is natural is already. Btw, I interpret words strictly. Again, you do not need to have religion in order to assure yourself only oblivion awaits at death. Ok, I’ll get a bit sideways on you here too: I’ve seen my own aura. I’ve been confronted by immortality in life. Go ahead and mock and make jokes, I was absolutely sober and I know what I saw. I know we all have a wonderful energy within and about ourselves that embraces us in existence and existence within us. It will never be extinguished, made nothing, etc. Now, those are my own thoughts, not Rand’s obviously, but they are not mutually exclusive either.

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  • democritusoilder267
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:50pm

    Even though I believe in God atheist are correct most of time in my book.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:54pm

      You must be an Obama supporter because that statement made absolutely no sense.

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    • TRONINTHEMORNING
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:57pm

      I’m sorry…What????

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    • Locked
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:00pm

      It seems someone forgot grammar in their haste to post…

      About what, in your opinion, are atheists “correct most of the time”? I’m genuinely curious.

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    • democritusoilder267
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:00pm

      No, I never voted for President Obama. In fact I’m a registered libertarian to be honest. I’m just very secular and critical of religion. As a deist I’m critical of all religions like Christianity, Islam, etc. Doesn’t mean I hate the believers or the history. Just critical.

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    • democritusoilder267
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:13pm

      Think about it! All religion is man-made. There has never been divine interpretation or prophecy or even miracles. So, atheist, are correct. But as a deist I believe in my own concept of a god. Just no religion.

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    • basiswgt
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:34pm

      What does a Diest say about Jesus?….at what point is a Diests perception of the world accurate?
      An embryo? A toddler? A pre-teen? A teenager? An Adult? A Spouse? A Parent? A Grandparent? or when they’re dead?

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    • democritusoilder267
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:58pm

      Personally I do not believe in Jesus. There is no historical evidence for any form of Jesus. I just do my best respect others.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:25pm

      @DEM There is no evidence to support Jesus? Surely you jest..There is all the evidence in the world to support Jesus..The Bible is a history book..It is the living will and testament of Jesus/Yeshua.. The Jews know that He existed..they do not believe that He still exists because they believe that He was a forgery.Islam believes that He was just a prophet but that Mohammad was greater than Him and they have been misled for the purposes of evil men to use them and their loved ones as suicide bombers and ones who are willing to die for the evil men’s causes.. But Jesus was persecuted and tortured and hung on a cross..he was crucified for our sins..and he rose the third day and still lives..sitting at the right hand of His Father God. All of the Prophesies have neared completion in the Bible..If you were to ask..God would give you a hunger for the knowledge and you would see for yourself .Many Muslims are seeking..I have a heart felt love for these people..They are seekers and many of them have been and will be saved..When you are living in the world..it is hard to come to God the Father and His Son Jesus..but if you just say prayer.and ask Him for a way to Him..it will be provided for you..

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    • democritusoilder267
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:54pm

      Does comment hold any truth? You just gave me your testimony. From all the websites I have studied from either Jewish or Muslim perspective they do not hate Jesus. In Islam Jesus is a prophet and messenger of God; all are equal in Islam. Jesus is also the Messiah in Islam. While in Judaism Jesus is irrelevant in Judaism. Studying traditional Judaism compared to Christianity I saw they contradicted one another on many occasions. Trust me! I have been to websites like Outreach Judaism hosted by rabbi Tovia Singer and Jews for Judaism. I’m very knowledgeable when it comes to the Abrahamic faiths. I just do not believe in them. They’re neither historic or true.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:03am

      @DEMO I just posted back to you above under STPPIM

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    • jay1975
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 10:26am

      @ashestoashes, The bible is a history book? If that’s true, so is Mother Goose. So the world is only 6000 years old and everyone is a descendant of an incestuous family living in a magical garden in the middle of the desert? People live inside of fish and floods wipe out the entire earth except for one family, thus more incest needed to repopulate the world. And if everyone is descended from one pair of people, why are there different races? A history book? Good grief.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:49pm

    The last times in history cultures ended the free worship of God and tried to enforce reason in its place we had the bloodshed of the French Revolution, Communist nations and so many others.

    Voltair proclaimed at one point “God is dead in our lifetime.” Now the poetic irony of God is that the last I have heard, the European HQ’s of the Gideon Society is using his house as their offices.

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    • katiefrankie
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:43pm

      I was just talking with my dad about that over a Costco pizza lunch – the rise of secularism during the French Revolution.

      The irony of that is, where did I first learn, in depth, about the atrocities of the French Revolution? In my junior year of high school in 1998-99, IB European History, as taught by a liberal teacher so ingrained in his political ideologies that he told me “Ayn Rand is irrelevant” and “You religious people creep me out.”

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  • Mary M. Tebbe
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:48pm

    The Bible says that God calls the atheist a fool. Could not have stated it better myself. Christians are not forcing you to believe anything you don’t want to believe. You have the free will to choose your own path. Good luck with that! Don‘t say you weren’t warned.
    Too much evidence points to a Creator. Get the blinders off your eyes and just look around you. I have known God since I was a child. I highly recommend Him!!! :)

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    • PAPPY72
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:55pm

      Dittos.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:15pm

      Please show me this evidence.

      and saying things like “look around, look at the world, look at us….how is that not creation?” ISN’T evidence. It’s an argument from ignorance.

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    • TexasHunter
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:32pm

      @Moderation- Have you ever done anything really good for someone and you received a chill/shiver through out your body? That is the Lord touching your soul and saying Thanks. You can not see air but yet we breath it everyday. Does that mean air is not there? Look inside yourself and see what God has created. You will be amazed.

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:29pm

      Having ben filled with the Spirit, spoke in tongues, seen the gifts of the Spirit in operation, saying God is not real, is the funniest thing I have ever heard…My wife, daughter ,a nd many friends have had the exact same experience.

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    • DeavonReye
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:32pm

      Can you point out why the verse that STARTS with “the fool says in his heart, there is no god”? You have to read the rest of the verse to discover why that verse is absolutely wrong and [therefore] should be thrown out.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:38pm

      @TEXASHUNTER

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

      Wow, that is ridiculous. A “chill” is the lord touching your soul and saying thanks. LOL

      What do you say to Muslims who get a chill and “feel God” or people who believed in Zeus.

      Those people are worshiping another God, yet God is still saying “thanks.”

      Give me a break .

      How do you explain for people who are suffering from Hypochondriasis, or Stockholm syndrome? The mind is a powerful thing and we are able to play tricks on ourselves. I‘m assuming that’s what happened in the case of religion.

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    • Hossua
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:32pm

      I looked for years when I was a child… Sadly, I found no evidence.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:38pm

      So, Moderation, where do you suspect that the matter and the energy that disbursed it, came from?

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    • Rainman3769
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:28am

      I cant help but noticing whenever I or someone like Moderation asks a believer to back up what they are saying, they either never answer the post again, and/or someone else takes a shot while STILL not answering the question. Come on believers, what are you afraid of?

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  • RabidPatriot
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:48pm

    I’m not sure why anybody cares what an activist atheists believes or says.

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    • GERATMO
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:09pm

      Only reason I care is because they have been taking religion out of our culture. Almost every day I read some athiest demanding that we take our crosses down our remove anything religiuos from public. If you dont believe, fine, but dont interfere with my beliefs

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:42pm

      You have your home and your churches to display all of your religious garbage. Why do you also need it on public space?

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    • YA-allthe-WEH
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:09pm

      @Moderation

      Seems to me the only public garbage we see here is atheist…
      TROLL!!!

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    • Hossua
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:41pm

      Excuse us atheists for not allowing you Christians an echo chamber.

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  • A Conservatarian
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:47pm

    Funny enough, the imagination is a very real thing.

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  • netmail
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:47pm

    Hope does not reside in reality…at best, it would only appear to. God is bigger than reality and so much better.

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  • robinakilt
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:46pm

    Hell will be GOD’s testament to free will! You will choose how you wish to live your life, but you will bow on bended knee before the one true KING and confess before you get to go to hell. Remember God allowed you to choose your path so don’t blame Bush!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:57pm

      people can‘t help what they truly believe or don’t. God knows their hearts and an honest decent athiest will not be condemned for not having the brains/heart to believe. A decent athiest will say yes to Christ in other ways that replace a cognitive assent. Perhaps in his encounter with the least of these-he says yes to Christ. Or immediately on dying he encounters and says yes to Christ. Don’t condemn any one for being an honest athiest.But these billboards are hateful and intolerent. Then again you anti-muslim bigots are no different then these -in your- face -athiests when it comes to denigrading muslims!

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    • robinakilt
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:42pm

      The great thing about GOD is he allows us all to believe whatever we want but he is very clear on the rules. We as people can change the rules and the bible all we want to make us feel justified with how we live our lives but in the end when we all kneel before God he is going to judge us by his rules and standards and not our own. God is not a liberal he will hold us all personally accountable for our own lives.

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    • TEXASGRANNY73
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:57pm

      @RoseEllen How do you deni grade someone? Is that ABC or first grade 2nd grade? What school system did you grow up with? I know our schools are bad (where I live they’re good) I’ve heard but it was hard to understand what you wrote. Do you live in US? You wrote people can‘t help what they believe or don’t….are you kidding? So, if I believe it is okay to break in your house and steal your money or even your house I can‘t help it if I believe it’s mine?

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:45pm

    I mean if you are without God, why would you waste your $ on 1200.00 billboards. Why not spend it on stuff that’s fun, since you only get one go ’round? Maybe, it’s a plea for help or just fools needing attention.

    They could have been more attractive, don’t you think? I”m in Colorado, by the way. A state that is turning red this election year.

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    • robinakilt
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:50pm

      You know I thought the same thing it is a really ugly billboard, spice it up a little bit

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    • TRONINTHEMORNING
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:59pm

      Yeah, Rob…It looks like a generic label for cough syrup.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 9:46am

      People are responsible for their acts and hence should be held responsible if they break a law or otherwise do bad things. people have free will -in their behavior. people also have a choice to live in faith or not[ but nobody really knows if God exists or if Jesus is God].To choose to procliam oneself an athiest is not a moral choice but a conviction based on ones sincere cognitive workings of a mind. You can’t hold someone morally responsible for what they sincerely believe. I hold people who believe it is all right to waterboard terrorist suspects as holding a morally unethical belief.Doesn’t mean they should be damned by God -they are misguided in their moral belief. Luckily for them the law allows waterboarding so they are not going to get prosecuted for it[or it did till the law changed].Burglary is still illigal hence a person will get arressted for freely choosing to act on his beliefs. Acts are free and ethical/unethical-beliefs are not[everyone believes that their beliefs are moral or they would not believe them.]We’re not responsible for our beliefs-though we can be said to be misguided[out of touch with moral truths].We’re responsible for our acts.Being misguided in ones beliefs is not a sin before God-deliberate going against the truth [the good] is. How many people deliberatly choose to go against the good? perhaps no one.[except the devil].

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  • HKS
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:41pm

    At least we have one, how about you.

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    • TRONINTHEMORNING
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:58pm

      One what?

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:38pm

      @TRONINTHEMORNING
      Imaginary friend. Duh.

      @HKS
      Glad you at least admit it’s imaginary.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:37am

      Man made global warming is imaginary, yet we make laws because of it… just saying

      The real truth,
      God created Nature which is a programming language which allowed for the development of the Universe class followed by the Life application. Then, mulitple Lifes were instantiated upon an infinite core server known as Dimensions. Occasionaly God checks out Dimensions for hardware failures and peeks in on the Lifes, checking their Prayer queues and sometimes fulfilling requests, usually when Liberty and Genocide are involved.

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  • Blackhawk1
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:06pm

    The world would also be a better place without all the irrational liberals telling us what we deserve to have and what we must give our lazy atheist neighbors.

    If you don’t believe in something, you will fall for anything.

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  • stpppim
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:06pm

    Tell us why!

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:08pm

    The truth is, this reality is an illusion, and God is the ONLY thing that is “real”.

    You are composed of particles that aren’t even actually touching each other, but are separated by space. Your body consists mostly of empty space. The universe consists mostly of empty space.

    Everything you see or experience is an illusion created by light. The way LUCIFER (the light bearer) deceives you is by making you cling to and please your imaginary flesh as if what you are able to perceive is all that there is. Your flesh is a covering for your intangible soul.

    The visible light spectrum is a very narrow band, and even the most advanced technology has no clue what actually “exists” because it is not advanced enough to observe it.

    We are like little children in the dark, being guided by Lucifer into utter damnation. Literally.

    May the true Morning Star rise in your heart, filling you with light, vanquishing the darkness. May Jesus Christ reside in your heart.

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  • ModerationIsBest
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:14pm

    @BLACKHAWK1

    Lol, that’s not the correct phrasing of that statement.

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  • stpppim
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:19pm

    Reality is real. Existence exists. I think therefore I am.
    When you ignore the law of identity: A=A then contradictions abound.

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  • Blackhawk1
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:22pm

    I figured it was close enough for liberal atheists. They don’t believe in anything anyway.

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  • TEXASGRANNY73
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:56pm

    I love my imaginery friend and my imaginery friend loves me. We’re as happy as we can be. Faith casteth out fear and I am not afraid of a silly sign nor do I care (I should but I don’t) what other folks believe. I have wondered though what Madeline OHare thought when she and her children were being murdered out in a lonely desert by her atheist “friend” who was stealing her “atheist” money or how John Lennon who proclaimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ was murdered not too long later and who is still popular to many as an imaginery friend, of course or how many people who proclaim Christianity after finding themselves among the walking dead in prison but would have been solid citizens had they had him as an imaginary friend first and respected others and self. And I even wonder what our current President would have been like if he believed in an imaginary friend. Not mine to reason why. But I wonder. Either way you reap what you sow.

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  • boundforglory
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:03pm

    @all atheists
    In the very near future, anywhere from 1-2 billion people will vanish from this earth, (all christians, believers in Christ), the anti-christ will be revealed and sign a seven (7) year peace treaty with Israel which he will break half way through (3 1/2 years), Solomons Temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem. When the treaty is broken, war will break out all over the earth for the last 3 1/2 years, which equals 7 years. Jesus will return and set His feet on the mount of Olives in Jerusalem and set up His kingdom that will last forever. When you die and are standing before the Great White Throne to be judged by Christ, dont point your fingers at us Christians and say: Why didnt you tell us, we have tried but you refused to listen so your blood will be on your own heads, this is in Ezekiel 3:17-21. I’m telling you this so that just maybe you might remember these words and know that you were told beforehand so that you will know that it is true! When you see all these things happening, remember these words!! May God have mercy on your souls.

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  • Therightsofbilly
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:32pm

    @MODERATIONISBEST

    Hey Mod,

    I know this won’t sink in this time, any more than all the other times I have said this, but………..

    If your ultimate goal is to somehow convince anyone that your way is the correct way, and that religion, (Christianity specifically), is wrong?

    Then you are spinning your wheels, because your form of persuasion is woefully lacking.

    Actually though, I’m pretty sure your goal is just to mock, and incite because of some deep seated issues.

    If being an atheist means to be like you? I’d rather join up with OWS.

    And yes, I did copy & paste this from a previous post.

    What’s good for the goose……..

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:37pm

    stpppim

    You should read http://www.artofeurope.com/shakespeare/sha8.htm

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  • timber wolf
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:12pm

    What are some of your high moral values?

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  • Ohio50patriot
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:24pm

    As an atheist you can have any moral standard you want because you believe there are no consequence other than the ones man would impose on you. I am glad you chose to maintain a high moral standard but without God you can maintain any moral standard. How would you explain how the creatures of the earth evolved without intelligent design?

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:32pm

    Who’s the hateful one, the ones who believe in God and serve Him in their communities and their familes, or the ones who harass the faithful on The Blaze, and call them hateful?

    LOOK IN THE MIRROR.

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  • indiglo
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:52pm

    Who’s the hateful one? well i am an atheist, a pacifist, and can not think of anyone i hate. i help others because it gives me joy to see their smile. i know i am not perfect…i am actually pretty lazy to be honest.
    i would like to point out that you are being much more hateful than me by accusing a whole group of people of being hateful. i accuse you of being hateful in the hopes that you will become more tolerant after realizing the accusing tone of your message.
    anyone who tries to force their religious beliefs on others is wasting their time and not being productive.
    LOOK IN THE MIRROR…if there was a copy of you but with different religious views, would you be able to get along? me,yes…but i think you Abraham young would find your self in an endless argument.

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