Still better that the pro-birth billboards in my area, trying take everyone riding by on a guilt trip.
4 Likes
.[quote=âMelizmatic, post:24, topic:77940â]
Still better that the pro-birth billboards in my area, trying take everyone riding by on a guilt trip.
[/quote]
Got one of those, too, on the downtown Inner Loop, one of the âwe have fingerprints in the womb!â guilt trip next to two 6 month old toddlers.
1 Like
Threads like this make me happy that I live in Japan where we have no abundance of pushy Christians or Dawkinsites.
3 Likes
One here has a red-headed infant next to some tripe about when hair color is established during gestation.
7 Likes
People generally donât consider factual accounts of genocide and incest as books of supreme wisdom and morality, though. I think the issue is that most religious people havenât actually read the bible and are only familiar with touchy-feely excerpts from it.
2 Likes
Sounds horrible. Glad you escaped! 
3 Likes
I consider frightening kids, and poisoning their minds with ridiculous myths to be CHILD ABUSE. Good on you for your âawakeningâ! Be proud!
10 Likes
Ya know, there are lots of religions besides Christianity
2 Likes
Shit - good point! (looks for âHoly Diverâ on Spotify)
1 Like
Any group that calls themselves âfreethinkersâ thinks they are, and donât have to think about it.
That billboard was designed by people not skilled in introspection.
3 Likes
I suppose skeptic is a loaded term as well? How about humanist?
3 Likes
Actual billboard near Montgomery, AL. We used to pass it on the way to my grandparents.
10 Likes
Also, anyone but me notice that the billboard message company owners all appear to be Jesus freaks. Maybe itâs just that the ones who are, well, own billboard companies and can make their message heard well. But I have seen an awful lot of empty billboards covered with religious messages as placeholders until a paying customer signs up.
5 Likes
I donât really have any problem with the ones that stick to the touchy-feely excerpts. Itâs the ones that embrace the non-touchy-feely, angry, mean-spirited parts that suck.
5 Likes
I never understood the idea of âthe devilâ or how the devil could make someone do something.
4 Likes
Lamar and Clear Channel are both major owners of billboard space and are both run by right-wing knuckle dragging troglydytes.
5 Likes
Why does the Devil have a scythe? Thatâs Deathâs weapon of choice. The Devil uses a pitchfork, sometimes depicted as a trident.
6 Likes
Iâm pretty sure thatâs a sickle, and IIRC, thereâs something somewhere in bible about people being âsifted like wheatâ by the devil during the end of daysâŚ
1 Like
A sickle is the curvier one-handed one, as seen on the flag of the USSR.
The Bible verse mentions separating wheat from chaff with a winnowing fork (or fan or shovel, depending on translation,) which looks a lot more like a pitchfork than a scythe, and whatâs more itâs being wielded by God.
3 Likes
What exactly was the billboard supposed to accomplish? You certainly wonât change anyoneâs mind being that aggressive. Like trolling conservative forums, all this accomplishes is confirming your own virtue to yourself. Itâs basically masturbation.
2 Likes
