'Why Believe in a God?' Ad Campaign Launches on D.C. Buses
Ads proclaiming, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake," will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday.
Don't these people have something better to spend their money on? Don't they realize that the money they are spending has "In God We Trust" on it? They want "under God" taken out of the Pledge of Allegiance and "Christ" taken out of Christmas. Will they want me to change my name to Opher, so that I will no longer offend someone or am I just being ridiculous now?
Here is another quote from the story. "We are trying to reach our audience, and sometimes in order to reach an audience, everybody has to hear you," said Fred Edwords, spokesman for the humanist group. "Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion."
"Everybody has to hear you" and people think bible thumpers are pushy. At least they don't take on $40,000 dollar add campaigns pushing their views on everyone. Maybe all those agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists feel a little alone because they don't go to Church and share fellowship with other people. There is a reason that the holidays are associated with traditional religion, because it is meant to be the celebration of the birth of Jesus. If you don't believe in God or Jesus, then maybe you shouldn't believe in the holidays either.
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To be fair, I think that for the vast majority of people that "celebrate" Christmas probably aren't doing so with religious overtones in mind - the whole getting together with family is more akin to Thanksgiving, and the whole presents thing has devolved into a modern marketing ploy.
I think that people would have been less pissed in general if the big sign had been merely, "Be good for goodness' sake" without the reference to God, personally.
Hi Opher, I enjoyed your post here. I am nothing if not a great Devil's advocate. If you'll notice, this group's campaign did achieve one end by running their campaign: they made you embrace the religious aspects of the holiday season a little more than you might have before. So give credit where it's due, they did do that. And dammit, this is America! They can spend their money on any message they want, right? And you're free to disagree! And I'm free to stay out of it, and beg everyone I know to get me no presents this year, but they never listen...anyways at the risk of being un-PC, have a merry Christmas
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