Atheist billboard nr LA Airport? Does it exist?

[AndyD]

According to CharsimaMag.com (http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/news/18441/18441), Ray Comfort has installed a billboard "near LA Airport". There is a photo but it's just the Photoshopped mock-up Comfort posted on his blog.

If anyone's in the region, can they confirm said billboard exists?

[CurtC]

I spent four nights this week at the LAX Hilton and I never saw anything.

Not that that means anything.

[TX50]

The irony in the title of Comfort's forthcoming book just made my head
explode! :eye-poppi
"You can Lead an Atheist to Evidence but You Can't Make Him Think"

[JenseitsDavon]

He said the book, whose forward was written by an atheist, is meant to help Christians defend themselves against atheists' claims.

I would be fascinated to learn what kind of person would write a forward for someone who refers to them in this way: "that show evolution and atheism to be both unscientific and, for want of a better word, stupid."

[Ladewig]

I have no answer as to whether of not this billboard exists, but I am willing to bet $1000 that the accompanying photo is a photoshopped image.


Comfort has produced dozens of evangelistic tracts, including his popular Million Dollar Bill, and co-hosts with actor Kirk Cameron a weekly TV show about personal evangelism called The Way of the Master.

Wait. Are we talking about the rube who put together the banana-is-evidence-of-intelligent-design video?

[Dunstan]

I was at the airport this week, and didn't see anything. Of course, there are multiple routes you can take, and I wasn't specifically looking for it.

[Skeptic Ginger]

It isn't clear which "month" they are talking about, Feb or Mar.

There's a billboard in Seattle that says something like, "Don't let evolution make a monkey out of you" Creationontheweb.com, but I cannot find an image of it anywhere including on their webpage.

It may say, "Don't let Darwin..." my recollection is fuzzy. It's been up for quite a while.

[Jeff Corey]

And now for...http://rowi.standardleitweg.de/uploads/ImagineNoReligion.jpg

[articulett]

I remember a sign by LAX that always advertised "Nude Nudes"... which I thought was bit redundant... until I realized that at the moment, I was a clothed nude.

[AndyD]

Wait. Are we talking about the rube who put together the banana-is-evidence-of-intelligent-design video?

Indeed we are. In fact this week he thanked atheists for spreading that video around the world and making him a household name.

He also claims that if evolution is true, we would see "crockoducks".

Comfort truly seems to believe the old adage that all publicity is good publicity.

And now for...http://rowi.standardleitweg.de/uploa...NoReligion.jpg

Permission Denied.

[dasmiller]

I remember a sign by LAX that always advertised "Nude Nudes"... which I thought was bit redundant... until I realized that at the moment, I was a clothed nude.

I believe it's still there. It used to be "Live Live Nude Nudes" - I was always a little disturbed by the implication that some of the strip joints had nudes that weren't completely alive. I didn't really investigate.

Back to the topic at hand - I do, in fact, live within a few miles of LAX and I haven't seen the billboard in question. The photoshopped image seems to show the billboard by a freeway, and that would make it the 105 or the 405. I'm not on the 105 that often, but I frequent the 405. If the picture is more inaccurate, then it's probably either Century or Sepulveda.

Anyway, if I see it, I'll post here, but I'm not going to go out looking for it.

[Silentknight]

I say they ought to combine the two billboard concepts into one that advertises a nude Kirk Cameron, preferably live (because we wouldn't want to go that far, would we?) and demonstrating a novel use for a banana.

[Aitch]

Atheist billboard nr LA Airport? Does it exist?

Some of us aren't convinced that LA really exists - it could be just a load of sets in Hollywood. :boggled:

[dasmiller]

Some of us aren't convinced that LA really exists - it could be just a load of sets in Hollywood. :boggled:

Virginia, your grown-up friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Los Angeles. It exists as certainly as fashionistas and traffic jams and cosmetic surgery exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its greatest smugness and puzzlement. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Los Angeles. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias or Indianas. There would be no childish faiths then, no stoner poetry, no porn industry to make entertainment for this existence. We should have no car chases except in James Bond movies. The eternal buzz with which eccentricity fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Los Angeles! You might as well not believe in Republicans! You might get the President to hire men to watch all the coastlines on Labor Day to catch Los Angeles, but even if they did not see a single actor working as a waiter, what would that prove? Nobody can see through the smog to Los Angeles, but that is no sign that there is no Los Angeles. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see while sober. Did you ever see Republicans scheming on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the bizarre cults there are unseen and unbathed in the world.

You may tear apart a jalapeno and see what makes it hot, but there is a veil covering the plastic world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only blind faith, egoism, vapidity, and self-obsession, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal chaos and pseudo-intellectualism beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Los Angeles! Thank God! LA lives, and will lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, Los Angeles will continue to disturb the heart of adulthood.

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I was in a hurry . . .

[pgwenthold]

I remember a sign by LAX that always advertised "Nude Nudes"... which I thought was bit redundant... until I realized that at the moment, I was a clothed nude.

This was in line with my reaction. When I think of "near LAX" the first thing that pops into my head is the strip club just down the street (is it even on Century Blvd? Maybe Sepulveda (thanks dasmiller)). I don't know why, but that is what I associate with "near LAX"

[AndyD]

It seems the billboard has finally gone up - which means the story claiming it was already up was, err, wrong.

The billboard has two fundamental errors:

It shows Darwin, the word "atheist" and the claim that an atheist is "someone who thinks nothing made everything: a scientific impossibility"

I'm not aware that Darwin held any particular belief on the origin of the universe. And I'm absolutely certain Comfort's definition of "atheist" is just plain wrong since many atheists would have no view on how "everything" began.

Add to this the fact that Comfort wouldn't know if something was a scientific impossibility, since he apparently got his science training from a cereal box, and the billboard probably amounts to false advertising.

[dasmiller]

It seems the billboard has finally gone up - which means the story claiming it was already up was, err, wrong.


Where is it? I drove past the airport on the 405 today, but I didn't catch all the billboards. It turns out that if I don't make a conscious effort to read them, I miss a lot of them (though I couldn't help but notice one headed by "LEAKING URINE?" in big letters, on the west side of the 405.)

[Aitch]

Where is it? I drove past the airport on the 405 today, but I didn't catch all the billboards. It turns out that if I don't make a conscious effort to read them, I miss a lot of them (though I couldn't help but notice one headed by "LEAKING URINE?" in big letters, on the west side of the 405.)

These grunge bands are definitely getting desperate when it comes to naming themselves. :rolleyes:

[AndyD]

Where is it?


According to his blog (http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/2009/02/billboard-hits-los-angeles-freeways.html), "This one is on the 105 freeway in Los Angeles, and will be seen by nearly one million cars each week."

[sophia8]

According to his blog (http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/2009/02/billboard-hits-los-angeles-freeways.html), "This one is on the 105 freeway in Los Angeles, and will be seen by nearly one million cars each week."Cars seeing billboards? Now that's Intelligent Design - it means that the drivers can ignore 'em.