Best billboard I've seen in awhile.

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How on earth is it anti-religious?

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The truth often tends to be interpreted as anti-religious.

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you could say that reality has an anti-religion bias

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If I were to say something like: "string theory is a fairy tale," I think it would be taken as an anti-string-theory statement. Which it clearly is. Inasmuch as science is the pursuit of truth, and fairy tales are fiction, it's the ultimate insult.

Bill Clinton recently said of (some aspect of) Barack Obama's campaign, "This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen." It was widely taken as a derogatory comment.

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That's great.

The term 'fairy tale' seems particularly charged for some people. E.g. I was in a law society course on their code of professional conduct and this stiffed-backed person who was a bencher relayed the following story of another lawyer who just almost, for them, almost crossed the line with their conduct. In brief, the bencher called opposing council because their client was in jail and, when released, had said that some of their livestock was missing. The responding lawyer's offending comment, that to the bencher fell just under the line of professional misconduct, was: "your client's telling you a fairy tale." The bencher considered writing the person up on disciplinary charges for this? After hearing this story, I began to look far more closely at what sorts of people were regulating lawyers in my jurisdiction.

Hmm, thinking about it, for those who seek the security of rules-based knowledge systems, I can understand how the term 'fairy tale' has the force to particularly upset them.

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I normally use the term "mythology" instead. It's more accurate for describing religions because most don't mention fairies specifically, but all of them are myths.

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What's acceptable? I like the ring of "your client's talking out of his ass," though "your client's pants are on fire" still works for me.

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I just wish the second and third letters of the TV station were reversed.

(And I checked. There is no WTFF. At least, not currently. There used to be. There are two KTHXs, tho'.)

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Where did you check? I've heard stories of a popular DJ who was fired after he announced the call letters as "KCUF, where we do everything backwards." I'd like to know if there is/was such a station.

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What's with the WXXX/KXXX nomenclature, anyway? What purpose does it serve?

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Heh, brilliant. There will be imitators I'm sure.

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I was just thinking today that you frequently see business who advertise their Christianity, usually with a fish in their ads or on their truck, but rarely do you see an agnostic or atheist-friendly business. I'd patronize that.

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I think you mean reality friendly-business. :P
Afterall, you don't see places that are "non-racist" friendly, do you?

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related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGgpGLxLQw

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I'm sure there's a game of internet bingo in all of this this somewhere.

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Would everyone thinks it's as cool for someone to put up a billboard saying "Atheists are soulless and will burn in hell?". Gee-whiz, can't we all just play nice?

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Poor theists. So oppressed. You never see any religious billboards.

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I'm completely baffled as to why people think it's ok to be up in arms about an anti-religion sign when there are so many fundamentalist Christian billboards all over the place. Hell, (no pun intended) if you go down to South Carolina you see billboards about Jesus everywhere and one that especially amused me was a black billboard with flames at the bottom and all it said was, "Ouch! It's hot down there!"

I'd bet a lot of money that billboard did NOT go up illegally but that MediaNet is just too chicken to stand up for letting athiests put up billboards if they want.

(btw ... I'm actually a Christian not an athiest ... but I've seen way more offensive Christian billboards than that one ... that one's kind of cute.)

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This version of the billboard would never work in San Francisco.

But I'm not sure which would be best: a drag queen, a bear in a tutu, a woman dressed as a drag queen, or, say, rivetpepsquad.

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Business was down by two-thirds, was that because of the billboard, or because of the impending dooom of (rec|depre)ession? Or are the Bush-voting church-goers also in denial of that?

Ah, if you can convince them atheism makes them rich, Americans would leave Churches in droves...

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"We should always respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his opinion that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -- H.L. Mencken

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Given the state of the dollar, it's almost tempting to pay $1,400 so it is up for a month.

Say around Christmas...

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All religions are fairly tales. Unless they aren't.

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at first, I lol'd.

Then i looked at the actual article.

Then i realized it was literally less than a mile down the road.

Small damned world.

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