Christians Aren't That Creative, Vandalize Atheist Sign
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[quote]Unknown vandals unhappy about atheists' billboard in Charlotte, N.C., spray-painted "Under God" on the ad, the city's atheist association discovered Monday. The defaced message will remain in place until after July 4, the group reports, which is the soonest that workers can furnish a fresh billboard image. Here's how the vandalized billboard now looks:
The billboard reads, "One Nation Indivisible," which is the phrase preceding the 1954 insertion of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, reports the Charlotte Observer's Tim Funk. The billboard was erected on Billy Graham Parkway last week. (Graham is, of course, the state's famous evangelical preacher.)
Similar North Carolina ads have gone up in Asheville, Greensboro, Wilmington, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem as a Fourth of July project by the area's atheist association. The group has filed a police report and will replace the billboard.
“It was done by one or two people off on their own who decided their only recourse was vandalism rather than having a conversation,” Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics spokesman William Warren said. “It does show how needed our message is. As atheists, we want to let people know we exist and that there’s a community here.” Warren told the Observer when the sign first went up that its location wasn't intended as a rebuke to the Rev. Graham.
He said the group has added more than 50 members since the ad went up. Atheist ads are often a target for vandals. Three of 10 atheist billboards erected in Sacramento, Calif., were defaced in February, and a series of atheist bus ads was recently vandalized in Detroit.
According to a 2007 study by the Pew Research Center, about 6 percent of Americans are secular. Less than 2 percent of all Americans identify as atheist.
An act of Congress changed the language of the Pledge of Allegiance during the height of the Cold War. Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister and Christian socialist, composed the original pledge in 1892.[/quote]
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They could've done something better besides filling in the blanks, I mean really.
who even cares about that stupid pledge
This was inevitable. Fuckers.
(The vandalism, you oafs.:rolleye:)
Christians, such badass' :c00lbert:
Do they realise that by tacking on "under God," they are creating a division between theists and atheists?
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Not only that, but a division between Abhramic religions and all others.
The fact that they did it shows how butthurt and useless they really are. Keep doing it, when are you going to realize that for the first time in history humanity has finally begun to abandon such nonsense?
That.
Those individual groups of christians are douchebags.
They're such rebels.
[I]"With liberty and justice to white protestant males."[/I]
I hope that no one assumes that Christians are all close-minded ignorant people because of this.
I didn't even know atheists had a "sign"
Generalization.
[QUOTE=gazzy_GUI;22988928]I didn't even know atheists had a "sign"[/QUOTE]
It's a billboard sign, not a symbol.
They spray painted the unused pledge of allegiance to a billboard!
:downs:
looks like god 'signed' a sutograph (bad puns lol0
Oh wow. They must be mad
so they can have jesus signs and shirts and all their bullshit everywhere, but we can't have a sign?
Creationists aren't that creative? Odd.
[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;22989268]so they can have jesus signs and shirts and all their bullshit everywhere, but we can't have a sign?[/QUOTE]
Correct.
shit just got real next the atheist are going to melt coins because it says in god we trust...
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Oh my [Insert name of S:6 entity here].
Read some of the comments:
[QUOTE]It's just good Americans taking back the country. I can see why it scares some of you... just like flipping the light on scares rats, mice, and roaches. Now why don't you scurry away. We're flipping the light on.[/QUOTE]
I refuse to believe these ignorant, bigoted specimens exist on the Internet. And to know that some of them are on Facepunch, the local Safe Haven...
This happens so often it's not even a question of if anymore, it's just when.
[QUOTE=Swilly;22989096]They spray painted the unused pledge of allegiance to a billboard!
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Unused? Over here you have to do it every morning every day in school.
And yet when this happens to a christian billboard, shit happens.
oh god dammit
But "Under God" in our pledge is the only thing separating us from the godless commies! :byodood: