How long before an "Imagine No Religion" billboard gets defaced?

A day or two, I'd guess. I'll keep watch. (Denver Post) || In other billboard news: A will-you-marry-me? billboard is just another ad. (Kansas City Star)

Comments

[Jed Flamput]

Lets's put these folks in jail. America is about punishing the bad guys, so lets put them in a prison. Gol dang these trouble-makers, jail awaits!

[Sally So]

Jed... did you even read the post? What did these folks do wrong? Or somebody. You seem to have a agenda. And yes.\, I am a corrections worker, and proud.

[Andy Hardy]

Andrew Zimmerman was eating brains tonight. Frankly that might be a 'jailable' offense in my county. And he is bald headed and fat, sort surprised that the natives he exploits havent fried him up.

[oldewave]

ummm, SS: i think that JF was joking (at least, i hope so...)

[Nathan Ridge]

Since we're on the topic of billboards, and that second article would have been touching if the message on the involved billboard were real, I feel the need to reflect upon the most heart-yanking billboard I've ever seen.

It said "Eat more chiken or I'll jump!"

[yucca]

Imagine no John Lennon. Or better yet, imagine no Yoko. If only I could...

[yucca]

Also, the second story made throw up in my mouth a little.

[Lou Sussler]

Please keep us posed on how long it stays unmarred.

Given that there are religious billboards up all across the country it would be interesting to see how long a different opinion is allowed to remain in place.

[chris n cali]

acid reflux yucca? cough cough out here on the central coast of california theres a lot of billboard tagging goin on. some of its kind of neat.. and some of its really g.. goofy

[angrysockmonkey]

how about a "just shut the f*ck up" billboard?

BE LIKE ANY OTHER BILLBOARD

[nellagain]

Luv the little CBS All-seeing eye right next to the Freedom From Religion URL. Very witty. Undoubtedly unintended but witty.

[Dick C. Normas]

Jennifer's of the world unite! Find the guy that posed for the ad and kick his ass.

[G-Man]

They own the billboard Nell. One of CBS's divisions is outdoor advertising.

[nellagain]

G-Man, Ah... Better yet. No religion like capitalism

[jj]

But if we had no religion there would be a huge population explosion!!! Imagine no catholic guilt...imagine no wars...we would have world hunger due to overpopulation if not for religion keeping the masses at bay.....hehe...I said "masses".

GREAT billboard, I have to pass anti-abortion billboards every single day on the way to work.....I'd love to see this one right next to them.

[Lou Ford Prefect]

We had one of these up along a major highway in Madison WI, it didn't get vandalized but it wasn't up for very long. The organization is based here in Madison, where they also do a radio program called "Freethought Radio" I am pretty sure some of the Air America affiliates are also broadcasting the program.

[Soo]

In Augusta, GA, alongside a heavily-traveled roadway, was a ginormous billboard that had the crucified Jesus, bloody crown of thorns and all, sprawled out with this slogan: "Jesus loves you this much!"

Once my children realized what they were looking at, it made them cry. That road was the shortest distance between two points, but I had to stop driving that way to spare them the agony of seeing a graphically-depicted blood-splattered body every day.

I hate billboards. Perfectly good trees get destroyed to make way for them, and they blot out some pretty good views.

Speaking of which, have they turned down the wattage on that miserable electric billboard out by the bay in SanFran, BNS?

[flatdaddy]

I've been agnostic/atheist/apathetic since I was first capable of forming an opinion and I have yet to be "oppressed" by religion. No Christian has ever kept me from doing, reading, consuming, or saying whatever I felt like (and there are a lot of them where I live), so I've never understood this monomaniacal hardon against Christianity displayed by organized atheists. Seems like the Bible-beaters and the Darwin-beaters need each other to give themselves a sense of identity or purpose or something.

[Inigo Montoya]

"Also, the second story made throw up in my mouth a little."

Yucca, isn't that redundant? Where else do you throw up?

[Naga Please!]

But if we had no religion there would be a huge population explosion!!! Imagine no catholic guilt...imagine no wars...

Instead we'd have genocide and oppression in just about every country on earth thanks to the atheist regime called communism.

[twerp]

Imagine my tattoed butt on a billboard.

[thomas]

I vote for a billboard fence on the Mexican border.
Content suggestions other than 700 miles of English lessons??

[cherie]

We already have that Naga, AND Religion has created more wars than any other topic since man started fighting.

[thomas]

cherie; it's always been about turf.

[Naga Please!]

We already have that Naga, AND Religion has created more wars than any other topic since man started fighting.

Cherie,
I certainly hope you know better than to buy into that nonsense. To say that religion is overwhelmingly responsible for wars is inaccurate. I previously posted on this very forum the list of wars in the past few centuries, and the vast majority were not caused by religion. As Thomas put it, it's about turf.

flatdaddy, I think 8 years of GWB got their goat, so you can't say they've hardly been affected. Even if they don't think he's quite the Born Again they imagined he might be, they (Hardcore Christians) still voted for him and droves. Also, there's this little thing called Stem Cell Research and thanks to Dubs Brave Leadership (a low cost nod to his supporters) we are now behind places like Korea. Nothing against Korea, but C'Mon...Finally, name 1 president that wasn't a Church Going, God Fearing Christian, at least ostensibly, not talking in reality. so you can't really say that organized Christianity has no affect on the rest of us, on the contrary , I'd say it has the greatest impact on American culture and society than anything else short of Capitalism and (goddam) Facebook.

[sometimesilie]

^^^

[sometimesilie]

*but yeah, I agree, some of the Darwinists, so-called, are as intolerant and abrasive as the Hardcore Bible Thumpers.

[thomas]

Sometimesilie;
What a shock for them when they finally discover they come from the same tree.

It's always been about turf,,,,but oh yeah, never forget to follow the money.

[Sean, Torrington CT]

*yawn*

Wake me when they're burning Christians at the stake, and torturing them into rejecting their irrational claims of eternal life.

[Sigh]

Ugh -- "Darwinists"

By that, I suppose, you mean 'scientists'. You know, people that form their opinions based on experimentation and observation, rather than their particular interpretation of a much translated collection of nearly two thousand year old texts.

Science is about "how"
Religion is about "why"

Neither works very well when trying to answer the other's question.

[twerp]

I heard a topic discussion about this on CNN yesterday. It was silly to say the least because it was just a bunch of Christians talking about Jesus Christ. They weren't taking into consideration the hundreds of other religions. I don't care though. That's just the way the world's been going and I can't do anything to change it. It's always been like this and it always will be unless some space aliens take over and program our minds to do their every bidding but as far as I know, that's already happened and we're actually living in the Matrix.

Anyways, I've seen many churchy and drug awareness billboards around here. The churchy ones don't really bother me as much as the drug awareness ones because the drug awareness ones are just so damn cheesy. There's one of a guy "shooting up" and it says, "this doesn't feel right." Stupid.

The best billboard ever is for a local Mexican restaurant that says, "got chimichangas?"

[twerp]

Soo, most of the billboards around here are digital and made of metal. No trees involved to make them. I am all about saving the trees though. All billboards should go digital soon, hopefully and with LEDs to light them to save on energy.

[Dan]

Naga: Instead we'd have genocide and oppression in just about every country on earth thanks to the atheist regime called communism.

Congratulations, Naga. You win for the most idiotic comment of the day.

[Theresa]

Trees are cut down for billboards to create and preserve the view of the billboard. When new landscape and street tree plans are created, the view of billboards is protected- and new trees cannot be planted within that viewshed. Billboards are ugly and useless, and they do result in the destruction of trees.

[sometimesilie]

I *hate* scientists and their spherical earth, so called. I believe that ghosts, or possibly aliens, or even more likely, the 3,000 year old scrolls of a nomadic desert tribe (to paraphrase the Onion) But NOT anyone who has anything to do with 'Science'. Just wanted to get that out there.

[twerp]

Theresa, that makes sense. I didn't think about that. I'm so used to the billboards being so high in the air that they are above the treelines but I guess in some areas they wouldn't be. Even in my small town they are pretty high up. I've never seen them cut down any trees to build them either. Maybe we're just more environmentally friendly here in bamaland. I wouldn't stress it though. Our highway roadsides are horrible with litter.

[Theresa]

Yeah twerp, I am a landscape architect in Florida and I hate having to deal with the billboards. The companies that own them have a lot of pull and money. We have to include them in our plans and can't plan trees within so many hundreds of feet, depending on different factors.

Plus, when was the last time you actually bought something or went somewhere because of something on a billboard? They seem fairly useless...

[nellagain]

Dan, Naga is not incorrect. The three of the four greatest mass murderers on the books were communists. Historically, communism does not look like the ideal
choice to prevent genocide, ensure peace and prosperity, or prevent dandruff.

Frankly communism was more of an expedient policy for those dictatorships rather than an instruction set that included "Conduct Genocide" as Step 3. It just sorta happened that communist/anti-communist lined up along ethnic lines. I guess.

Unfortunatly we don't have good statistics on the *continous* body counts attributable to organized religious persecution.

The early christian church was big on purges, but so were other religions--if you take into account things like animist warrior cults (such as the one in ancient Tibet that overran China), you can pretty well attibute a significant portion of overall human death to some form of religous persecution.

On the other hand, you can attribute a major portion to bad sanitation and the habit of hanging out in cities looking for a good time.

[Dan]

Sorry Nell, Naga is today's board idiot. Unless, you believe that religion and communism are our only two choices in life.

[Soo]

twerp: in many places, trees are cut down to provide a better view of the billboard, not to make them. That's plenty bad in my opinion.

[twerp]

Soo, I agree. As I told Theresa, I didn't really take that into consideration. It's crappy. It's about as crappy as Target building its monstrosities on beautiful countryside when there's perfectly good abandoned shopping centers within 5 miles of its location. I hate Target and Walmart and dammit, Walmart is the only place to buy anything here in my small town--I'd have to drive a good distance to shop at an alternative location and the gas I'd use to get there is ridiculous these days.

[Reno]

Ugh, I hate billboards, and I hate all this chatter about religion.

The billboards here in Reno are about 50% metal with digital screens and the others are the old crappy kind. Both are easily ignored by this particular driver.

[Inigo Montoya]

Sorry, the very mention of Darwinism makes me think of this. I can't help but post the link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FZFG5PKw504

[Ankharan]

Religion is an excuse for human behavior.

[random white guy]

I'm an atheist, and yes, I've been oppressed. I have had christians come up and start challenging my beliefs, even after I've told them I didn't want to argue. Then, others come, adn they join in. Next thing you know, you're getting yelled at by several people at once, and you don't have time to defend your beliefs.

It's almost enough to make you start swinging.

[Naga Please!]

Congratulations, Naga. You win for the most idiotic comment of the day.
you believe that religion and communism are our only two choices in life.

No, actually the award goes to you for a senseless argument that attacks the person and not the argument.
Communism promotes atheism.

[Dan]

Sorry, it's idiots like you that are the problem for promoting sophomoric views that are tragically uninformed and devoid of logic.

[twerp]

"Communism promotes atheism."

What the hell? From my understanding, a lot of belief-in-god-based-religions have promoted Communism, i.e. Amish and extreme nutjob religions like the group busted for marrying underage girls that's having so much trouble in the media lately. A lot of cults are communistic as well.

I really don't care about the argument at hand, I just thought the above quote seemed pretty uninformed (or ignorant--however you wanna phrase it).