Atheists Launch “Skip Church” Christmas Billboards in the Bible Belt

on December 3, 2014

This Christmas season atheists are taking the Left’s “War on Christmas” to new heights. Literally.

According to the American Atheists website, the billboard (see above picture) features a little girl  in front of a Christmas tree writing a letter to Santa Claus that reads, “Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is to skip church! I’m too old for fairy tales.”

American Atheists’ Christmas billboard campaigns are launched in Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, according to the group. However, the group was not able to secure a billboard in Jackson, Mississippi.

What is sad and disappointing about American Atheists’ Christmas Billboards disparagement of the Church is that they are featured in a society where strip joints, casinos, pornography, human trafficking and a whole host of other socio-economic ills harming humanity. Yet, they choose to pool their resources towards disparaging the Church, an institution responsible for teaching ethics, moral values, supports the sick and the suffering and offers Divine healing and hope for this broken world. If this is a depiction of our supposedly “enlightened” culture, then we have got our priorities very backwards.

Of course, it isn’t surprising that American Atheists are targeting Southern states, which Gallup polls found to be among the most religious in the country. Mississippi being the most faithful while Vermont was the least religious.

Other secular humanist organizations have also targeted Southern states faithfulness. Back in early November, the Human Rights Campaign launched their “All God’s Children” campaign in Mississippi on November 10 in order to erode the Christians Mississippians’ public and legislative support of marriage as God defined it.

This Christmas, let us pray that atheists with deep hostility for Christ and his Church will abandon the tired and unbelievable arguments they have been fed and instead come alongside a body of Believers – many of whom have struggled with the same questions, confusion, and wounds, yet found healing and peace in Christ – and recognize that He truly is the reason for the Christmas season.

  1. Comment by Darah Gaz on December 6, 2014 at 9:19 am

    One of the American Atheists’ spokesdorks made a fool of himself on Michael Medved’s radio show, whining on and on about the “harm” done by religion. People like that are like the handful of people who have some horrible allergic reaction to a medication, a medication that may be doing great things for most of the people who take it. “This drug almost ruined my life, do NOT take this drug!” Hey, atheists, broaden your narrow little minds, OK? If millions of people in American are getting positive results from Christianity, what is your beef?

  2. Comment by cochise1 on December 9, 2014 at 5:16 pm

    They certainly seem obsessed and hateful toward something they profess not to believe in….odd people.

  3. Comment by James D. Berkley on December 9, 2014 at 8:09 pm

    It seems laughably ironic that the little girl who supposedly is too old for fairy tales is writing Santa. Yeah, right.

  4. Comment by John S. on December 10, 2014 at 7:06 am

    You fail to understand your opponent. What you see as “…a whole host of other socio-economic ills harming humanity.” They see as either a benefit or necessary cost of freeing people from “…institution responsible for teaching ethics, moral values,..” especially when those ethics and morals are incompatible with a free and open society which affirms all peoples. Once freed of superstition they can helped, educated and have the means to live full lives. To this end they pool their resources, the billboard is just a means. Ridiculing them as dorks, setting up strawmen, or castigating them as evil does not answer their arguments or bring them alongside a body of believers. Nor does it address the pain, suffering and ill treatment they have received from the church.

    If your argument is, “Christianity made my life better. It works for me”, then you have no argument. The same thing can be said of many things for many people. Just because something works for one does not validate it.

  5. Comment by Asemodevs on December 23, 2014 at 9:24 pm

    Atheism does not make people’s lives better, as atheists have higher suicide rates.

  6. Comment by John S. on December 24, 2014 at 6:38 am

    Atheism makes some people’s lives better. If suicide is an argument against a given philosophy or relgion then all are invalid as all have suicides.

  7. Comment by Leon M. Green on December 10, 2014 at 11:01 am

    Militant atheists will not desist without persistent peaceful ennemy-loving responses from us.

  8. Comment by Gary Butner on December 19, 2014 at 4:23 pm

    Forty plus years ago I questioned myself as to why I was fighting so hard to eliminate the existence of God.

  9. Comment by Claus von Stauffenberg on December 20, 2014 at 2:44 am

    I wonder how many Christians are shocked by the actions of those who call themselves “atheists” and by those who, in one form or another, are antagonists of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

    This should serve as a reminder that we are still in the “Church militant” and that our evangelistic efforts should never be waning, but ever increasing.

    We must remind ourselves that our Savior Jesus told us: “wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” MATTHEW 7:13

    Let’s center our efforts on doing all that we can to help souls “find it” by sharing the Gospel, “but do it courteously and respectfully.” (1 Peter 3:15).

    At one time we all were dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1), and atheism is only a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority – a common condition of an unsanctified heart.

    Only the Holy Spirit, through the Gospel, has the power to change hearts. We can do our part and then let the Holy Spirit do what he will.

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