A bit rude:
"A new advertisement in Alabama by a national atheist group is reportedly declaring religions to be "scams."
The Huntsville ad -- produced by the American Atheists -- displays the message "You know they're all scams" alongside pictures of religious symbols, such as Islam's crescent moon and star, the cross and the Jewish star, according to the Christian Post.
The billboard also claims that the national group has been "telling the truth since 1963."
The American Atheists define "scam" as a fraudulent business scheme or ploy to intentionally mislead a person, usually with the goal of financial gains, the Post reports.
According to the group, "all religions make lots of promises about an afterlife that doesn't exist."
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The politics of insult again. Or the politics of arrogance. And lumping all religions together is pretty thick. Are Quakers and Muslims the same?
They sound pretty evangelical. I suspect that they are mainly trying to convince themselves. I am the most utter atheist you would ever find (I don't even believe that the word "God" is meaningful) but I don't need to prop up my views by attacking the beliefs of others.
I do seriously wonder about how militant atheists get that way. There must be some unhappiness in their lives to make them like that. My own religious background is as a Bible-bashing Protestant fundamentalist but, far from repudiating or attacking that, I have the warmest memories of that time in my life (in my teens) and an abiding instinctive sympathy for others who are still of that persuasion. I suspect that militant atheists just have some deficit of feeling.
Anyway, I am the winner. The great Protestant hymns ("How great thou art", "To be a pilgrim" etc.) still bring tears to my eyes. I suspect that militant atheists can never share that.
Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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