"Don't believe in God" billboard

[mr rosewater]

A group of atheists and agnostics has rented a billboard along the New Jersey Turnpike to trumpet what it says is a seldom-heard message in 21st-century America.

“Don’t Believe in God? You are not alone,”

http://www.northjersey.com/news/Gods_skeptics_get_comfort_from_above.html

A representative of FreeThoughtAction.org, a division of the humanist group, said Saturday that early response to the billboard had been overwhelmingly positive.

“We’re not negative against anybody,” Jan Meshon said. “We’re not out there to hurt anybody.”

:eye-poppi

[Esperdome]

Bets on how long it takes someone to vandalize it?

[BPSCG]

Bets on how long it takes someone to vandalize it?No need for that. Yahweh will smite its owners with boils and swarms of locusts, Allah will have them beheaded, and God will blast the billboard with lightning. He's big enough to take care of himself.

[TragicMonkey]

Surely anybody driving along the Jersey Turnpike already has ample evidence that there is no God?

[mr rosewater]

No need for that. Yahweh will smite its owners with boils and swarms of locusts, Allah will have them beheaded, and God will blast the billboard with lightning. He's big enough to take care of himself.

I'd be more concerned with what O'Reilly does.:yikes:

[alfaniner]

I wish they'd stated it as "Don’t Believe in a god?"

[TragicMonkey]

I wish they'd stated it as "Don’t Believe in a god?"

Wouldn't work. Believers are so accustomed to thinking of God as a real person, they forget that his name is actually a job description, and that there are others. Just like Santa Claus is Santa, not a santa.

[BPSCG]

Surely anybody driving along the Jersey Turnpike already has ample evidence that there is no God?Actually, the Jersey Turnpike is evidence that Fred Phelps and his merry band are right: There is a God, and he hates you to death.

[articulett]

Wouldn't work. Believers are so accustomed to thinking of God as a real person, they forget that his name is actually a job description, and that there are others. Just like Santa Claus is Santa, not a santa.

Well, it's not a sign meant for believers. I think I would have liked "don't believe in any gods?"

I would like to curtail the appeal to popularity that pretends that everyone believes in the same "god" (therefore "he" must be real.)

I like FFRF's billboard too: http://ffrf.org/fttoday/2007/sept/billboard.php

I spent a year in NJ and would have liked to see the OP billboard. I hope we see more of this.

[billydkid]

I wish they'd stated it as "Don’t Believe in a god?"I agree. By simply saying "God" you are accepting the premise of the Jewish/Christian and I guess Muslim God - giving it a validity beyond that of, say, the Greek and Roman Gods for which there is no basis. It makes no more sense than any other dreamed up notion of a God.

[tsg]

Surely anybody driving along the Jersey Turnpike already has ample evidence that there is no God?

That he hasn't smited the jackass in front of me in the left lane doing ten miles an hour under the speed limit with his left turn signal on for the past ten miles is all the evidence I need.

That and the Linden Cogen Plant.

[tsg]

I wish they'd stated it as "Don’t Believe in a god?"

The way some believers like to pretend they're all talking about the same one, I'm not so sure it isn't appropriate the way it's written.

Other than that, I pretty much agree.

[ravdin]

It's a nice rebuttal to the "Evolution? You've got to be kidding me. -God" billboards.

(I sometimes wonder if those billboards are put up by people who are secretly trying to undermine the fundies. If I were a believer, I would be scandalized at the utter blasphemy of speaking for the creator, not to mention breaking the commandment of taking his name in vain).

[Francesca R]

No need for that. Yahweh will smite its owners with boils and swarms of locusts, Allah will have them beheaded, and God will blast the billboard with lightning. He's big enough to take care of himself.More likely, God will have a chat with someone religious and ask them to vandalise the board. I've heard that this is the usual miracle by which the Lord makes himself manifest.

[BPSCG]

More likely, God will have a chat with someone religious and ask them to vandalise the board. I've heard that this is the usual miracle by which the Lord makes himself manifest.God contracts out his labor?

I wonder if he hires illegal beaners Mexicans standing in front of the Weenie-Beanie (http://www.chowhound.com/topics/314114).

[Francesca R]

God contracts out his labor?One hears that he does. Some claim that this is subterfuge on God's part to camouflage the fact of his non-existence. But let's be clear, the evidence of the contract ("God told me to destroy that bill-board / cook my girlfriend") is itself evidence that God was there.

[mr rosewater]

One hears that he does. Some claim that this is subterfuge on God's part to camouflage the fact of his non-existence. But let's be clear, the evidence of the contract ("God told me to destroy that bill-board / cook my girlfriend") is itself evidence that God was there.

This god sounds more like a Mafia Don, in New Jersey we all know there is no such thing as the Mafia!:jaw-dropp

[tsg]

This god sounds more like a Mafia Don, in New Jersey we all know there is no such thing as the Mafia!:jaw-dropp

Or New Jersey.

[godless dave]

This god sounds more like a Mafia Don, in New Jersey we all know there is no such thing as the Mafia!:jaw-dropp

Yep, God makes sure no one overhears him giving instructions so he has plausible deniability.