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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,450445,00.html
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This sounds like the same ad campaign that was on London buses. Religion isn't as polarizing there and atheism is not scandalous.
And the problem with being good just for the sake of goodness is...?
I'm not an atheist. Don't start.
Sure the movement to remove God from everything. Well 40 years ago you didn't have these problems. Children respected their parents and there was no 8 year old killing his dad. It's what happens when a nation moves away from God. Keep it up America and soon more catastrophe will come.
Let's just say they is entitled to do this..... They defend it by saying...
""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."
So to them I say the same arguement exists for "Prayer in School!" In order for our audience to hear prayer in school, everybody has to hear it! What are they afraid of? Their children might recognise how ignorant their parents really are about God! They want it both ways, but we shouldn't allow it!
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under ???, indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for all." Welcome to America where it is legal to try to assassinate what the country was founded on. GOD AND FREEDOM.
But yet nearly all Founding Fathers were slave owners.
People should live lives free of superstition.
That seems blatantly obvious to me. With superstition, people make less rational choices.
Need more be said?
Richard and tedh:
"one nation..." under nothing, or under whatever. The words "under God" were not, repeat, NOT, in the original Pledge. Those two words were added to the Pledge in the 1950's.
And the Founding Fathers were for the most part NOT Christians; they were Deists. One of the foundations of this country was freedom of religion, which logically includes freedom FROM religion.
You want prayer in schools; that's fine. What is not fine is that you want Christian prayer and only Christian prayer while you ignore other religious and spiritual beliefs. Freedom of religion, remember? Either include prayers from all faiths, or devote a minute or two of silence for each student to commune with his or her own Deity. (Whatever happened to separation of church and state, by the way?)
Seems to me you guys don't want it both ways. You want it YOUR way. And buddies, that is NOT freedom.
I guess Eisenhower said it best when he approved it being added:
"In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war."
Add to that God is in the Declaration of Independance because the Colonies were formed to find freedom of religion.
And let's face it, without God, morality is out the window. Look where all these changes have been taking us.
Look at what's going on in DC. Murder. Crime. Murder. Crime. Why believe in God? You tell me.
Is it "God" in the Declaration of Independence ( please note the spelling, you scholar, you), or is it that men (and women) "are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable rights"?
And they surely aren't spiritual weapons we are using against our enemies, now are they? If you're so into religion, surely you remember the commandment that states, "Thou shalt not kill." There's no "except if they're" clause to that commandment.
This is not a promotion of religion This is an anti religious campaign. Grannydragon if there was a sign that said "Why believe in Allah" there would be an uprising.
As it is written....
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
"nature's God." Not God, but "NATURE'S God."
I rest my case.
tedh: and there's not an uprising now?
If there was a sign that said "Why believe in Allah" there would be an uprising. This means that the nation of Islam would be protesting the streets of our nations capitol and you be hearing it all over the news. How about "Why believe in Nature's GOD"? I bet you would have something to say about that. It is an attack on one religious group is what I'm am saying. How about "Why believe in ANY GOD and screw them all".
And just what would you say nature is??? Dictionary says:
nature:
10 dictionary results for: nature
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
na⋅ture /ˈneɪtʃər/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ney-cher] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. the material world, esp. as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
2. the natural world as it exists without human beings or civilization.
3. the elements of the natural world, as mountains, trees, animals, or rivers.
4. natural scenery.
5. the universe, with all its phenomena.
6. the sum total of the forces at work throughout the universe.
7. reality, as distinguished from any effect of art: a portrait true to nature.
8. the particular combination of qualities belonging to a person, animal, thing, or class by birth, origin, or constitution; native or inherent character: human nature.
9. the instincts or inherent tendencies directing conduct: a man of good nature.
10. character, kind, or sort: two books of the same nature.
11. characteristic disposition; temperament: a self-willed nature; an evil nature.
12. the original, natural, uncivilized condition of humankind.
13. the biological functions or the urges to satisfy their requirements.
14. a primitive, wild condition; an uncultivated state.
15. a simple, uncluttered mode of life without the conveniences or distractions of civilization: a return to nature.
16. (initial capital letter, italics) a prose work (1836), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, expounding transcendentalism.
17. Theology. the moral state as unaffected by grace.
Sure sounds like the same God to me! And to think grannydragon rested her case!
What sounds like something to you may not sound like the same thing to someone else.
Hey, if you can't be good without leaning on God, that's fine with me.
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