On Atheist Billboards

on December 16, 2014

The Freedom from Religion Foundation just unveiled its series of billboards trying to put a friendly face on atheism. One of them  features atheist blogger Hemant Mehta whose billboard reads “I’d rather put my faith in me.”

To which all I have to say is:

goodluck

  1. Comment by Greg Paley on December 16, 2014 at 5:06 pm

    Everyone believes in a god, and despite the obvious narcissism in our culture, even the most self-absorbed people look to something outside themselves – such as “being on the right side of history,” even though they can’t prove history exists any more than believers can prove God exists. Check the record of the USSR, China, Nazi Germany, and other nations that abandoned religion but substituted ‘the right side of history” and “science and reason.”

    The Bible gets it right. You worship God, or you worship an idol. And while it’s true that horrible things have been done in God’s name, horrible things have been done in the name of “history” or “equality” or “freedom.” Humans have happily oppressed and even killed people who did not bow to the correct idols.

  2. Comment by Stacy Turner on December 22, 2014 at 3:44 pm

    No, everyone doesn’t. I do not. Your argument is invalid.

  3. Comment by Brad F on December 23, 2014 at 9:17 pm

    You poor little atheist trolls – such empty lives, nothing to do but bash Christians. Sad little creatures.

    Too cowardly to bash Muslims too.

  4. Comment by ron_goodman on January 10, 2015 at 10:26 am

    In this case, it looks like the alleged Christian who was doing the bashing.

  5. Comment by Stacy Turner on January 13, 2015 at 3:57 am

    My life is rich and rewarding, and I posted a 3D rendering of the prophet Muhammad defecating in his own mouth in a yoga class just the other day. I am an anti-theist and militant skeptic , mocking all you delusional Anti-Vaxxer, Climate Denier, Astrology, Chiropractic, Homeopathic, Multi-Level Marketing, Aromatherapy, Power Crystal, Superstitions, Bigfoot Chasing types. I do this so you will become a better person and save your money though furthering your education and practicing science rather than believe a simple tale as a substitute for hard questions, because “yo!, thinking is hard.”

    I collect death threats (48 so far) and fight challenges (11) from Christians and Muslims. But neither they nor their gods show up in the church or mosque parking lots as requested for their character building lesson I teach via violence. I think we both know who the cowards are, the ones that need as bedtime story that you won’t eve die seems most obvious.

    Anytime bro, but you better pack a lunch. Do you even lift?

  6. Comment by Nohm on December 23, 2014 at 9:27 pm

    “Your argument is invalid.”
    Very impressive.

  7. Comment by Brenda Weber on December 23, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    Claims you “can’t prove history exists” then tells us all (IN THE NEXT SENTENCE EVEN) to “check the record of the USSR, China, Nazi Germany”.

    Bahahaha!

  8. Comment by Asemodevs on December 23, 2014 at 9:22 pm

    They worship themselves.

  9. Comment by Stacy Turner on June 28, 2015 at 10:58 am

    No gods. No masters.

    What’s it like to be a slave, having to get on your knees?

    Man evolved to stand on his feet.

  10. Comment by Stacy Turner on June 28, 2015 at 11:01 am

    https://michaelsherlockauthor.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/the-atheist-atrocities-fallacy-hitler-stalin-pol-pot-in-memory-of-christopher-hitchens/

    Nice crucifix idolatry btw.

  11. Comment by Gary Butner on December 19, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    Christians cannot prove God exists, and neither can atheists and skeptics prove one does not exist. HOWEVER, Christians can provide considerable evidence the God of the Bible does exist. Remember, evidence is objective and proof is subjective.,

  12. Comment by Stacy Turner on December 22, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    It is the responsibility of the one making the claim to provide evidence for his claim. Always has been, always will be. Nullius In Verba.

    What is this evidence you can provide. Subjective implies a witness, and the people that told their stories to the Greek translator of the gospels did so 130+ years after the supposed events occurred. No other legitimate historians of the time mention any of the events or of Jesus.

    What objective evidence can you provide?

    Remember extraordinary claims require extra ordinary evidence. Claims that are made without evidence, can just as easily be dismissed.

  13. Comment by Gary Butner on December 22, 2014 at 8:49 pm

    Firstly, you are wrong about the witnesses telling their stories to Greek translators 130+ years after the events occurred. Obviously, you have never studied textual criticism, and if so . you would know scholars date the books of the New Testament between 45 and 90 AD. Go to my website at evidenceforjesuschrist.org, and then click on the Bible menu. You will find hundreds of scholars listed, and the dates they see when each book was written.

    Secondly, the New Testament authors wrote in Greek, and there was no need for translations.

    Thirdly, you are also wrong regarding legitimate historians of the time mentioning the events. Luke, the physician, is considered by historians to be one the greatest historians of all times. Sir William Ramsey is an example of how an honest scholar of history can change his entire presuppositional perspective when faced by incontrovertible evidence from history and archaeology. Ramsey began his historical research toward the end of the nineteenth century. When he began his research he based it on the German (Tübingen) liberal/critical school of thought, which taught that the New Testament was not written in the first century and was not historically reliable. Instead, it was an invention of the second-century church. Although the New Testament book of Acts contained a variety of supposedly present-tense historical references, liberal critics rejected its historicity and declared it a fabrication.

    As a young historian, Ramsey determined to develop an independent historical and geographical study of first-century Asia Minor. Assuming the unreliability of the book of Acts, he ignored its historical allusions in his studies. The amount of usable historical information concerning first-century Asia Minor, however, was too little for him to proceed very far with his work. That led him, almost in desperation, to consult the book of Acts. He discovered that it was true to first-century history. Here are Ramsey’s own words chronicling his change of mind:

    I may fairly claim to have entered on this investigation without prejudice in favor of the conclusion which I shall now seek to justify to the reader. On the contrary, I began with a mind unfavorable to it, for the ingenuity and apparent completeness of the Tubingen theory had at one time quite convinced me. It did not then lie in my line of life to investigate the subject minutely, but more recently I found myself brought into contact with the Book of Acts as an authority for the topography, antiquities and society of Asia Minor. It was gradually borne upon me that in various details the narrative showed marvelous truth.

    Ramsey’s studies led him to conclude that “Luke’s history is unsurpassed in respect of its trustworthiness,” and “Luke is a historian of the first rank; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy…this author should be placed along with the very greatest of historians.”

    From the experience of Ramsey we see that the New Testament writer Luke, author of a large portion of the New Testament (Luke and Acts) and an eyewitness of many events during the growth of the first-century church, was a careful historian.
    Ramsey spent years trying to prove Luke was wrong, and in the end had to admit Luke was accurate down to the smallest details. Furthermore, he pegged New Testament events to other events so there was no doubts as to when they happened.

  14. Comment by Stacy Turner on June 28, 2015 at 11:05 am

    The stories were written in greek as they were told from the jewish stories passed down by a hebrew/greek translator the story tellers were illiterate.

  15. Comment by Gary Butner on May 30, 2016 at 2:31 am

    The New Testament autors wrote in Greek, and did not use translators. evidenceforjesuschrist.org

  16. Comment by Stacy Turner on June 29, 2016 at 7:27 pm

    But the claim is that his disciples were hebrew, not greek. The were illiterate in greek, so…

  17. Comment by Gary Butner on March 18, 2017 at 10:03 am

    Greek was the International language of that time, and Jesus Disciples were from Gailee, where Greek was the second language.

  18. Comment by Stacy Turner on January 16, 2017 at 9:27 am

    Illiterate jews speaking to a Greek without someone to translate. It all makes sense now.

  19. Comment by Gary Butner on March 18, 2017 at 10:03 am

    The Apostle Paul studied under the great teacher Gamaliel, and Dr Luke’s Greek is some of the finest ever written. The Apostles were written between 40-95A.D.

  20. Comment by Stacy Turner on June 28, 2015 at 11:15 am

    The oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts – including the Dead Sea Scrolls – date to about the 2nd century BCE (fragmentary) and some are stored at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. The oldest extant complete text survives in a Greek translation called the Septuagint, dating to the 4th century CE (Codex Sinaiticus). The oldest extant manuscripts of the vocalized Masoretic Text (the basis of modern editions), date to the 9th century CE. With the exception of a few biblical sections in the Prophets, virtually no biblical text is contemporaneous with the events it describes.

    Internal evidence in the texts suggests dating the individual books of the 27-book New Testament canon in the 1st century CE. The first book written was probably 1 Thessalonians, written around 50 CE. The final book (in the ordering of the canon), the Book of Revelation, is said to have been written by John of Patmosduring the reign of Domitian (81-96).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_the_Bible

  21. Comment by Brad F on December 23, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    You atheists outdo religious people in killing. The numbers do not lie.

  22. Comment by Stacy Turner on January 13, 2015 at 3:45 am

    We are not a club. “Atheist” is what you Theists call people that do not have invisible supernatural beings to believe in. That way you can group us, make up bullshit about us as a group in order to deal with your mental illness of delusion.

    No crime has ever been committed in the NAME of not believing in pink unicorns. Sorry, people that don’t believe in the gods of Hinduism or Yahweh may have committed crimes or atrocities, but they never did so for thew lack of belief in Hanuman.

    So, nope. Pious Fraud or Lying for Jesus is wrong, you should stop doing that, Sinner.

  23. Comment by Stacy Turner on June 28, 2015 at 11:02 am

    https://michaelsherlockauthor.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/the-atheist-atrocities-fallacy-hitler-stalin-pol-pot-in-memory-of-christopher-hitchens/

  24. Comment by Stacy Turner on December 22, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    Morgan Freeman is an Atheist. #EpicFail.

  25. Comment by Norman Lane on December 23, 2014 at 9:20 pm

    So what? Is he some kind of authority figure?

  26. Comment by Amber Niebur on December 22, 2014 at 7:49 pm

    There is no evidence that any god ever existed. What I really want to know is why miracles suddenly stopped. Did the gods die? Did they just leave? Are they sleeping? Do they no longer care? Give me some good old Greek gods any day. Those gods knew how to party. Always pretending to be a woman’s hubby, or turning into a swan to spy on the sexy females. Not like the current stuck up gods with their hatred of everything fun & too many rules.

  27. Comment by Brad F on December 23, 2014 at 9:19 pm

    So, tramps object to moral gods?
    Got it.

  28. Comment by Tiger on December 23, 2014 at 9:41 pm

    Faith in yourself? Really? One human being, whose experience on earth is limited to, at most, 80 years or so?

  29. Comment by John Thomson on December 24, 2014 at 10:17 am

    Fundamentalism does not require a god. Genocide and other atrocities have been committed by people who claim that no god exists. Atheists are ignorant of history, or they choose to airbrush it.

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