Comments on: All Aboard The Atheist…Billboard?!? http://atheistblogger.com/2009/11/19/all-aboard-the-atheist-billboard/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:08:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Saul Burbridge http://atheistblogger.com/2009/11/19/all-aboard-the-atheist-billboard/comment-page-1/#comment-6510 Saul Burbridge Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:37:36 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/?p=1520#comment-6510 Very few Atheists can be deemed "Evangelical". I don't know of any Atheists that actually try and preach their thinking onto others, I merely know Atheists which teach. I for example, have never tried to force my nonbelief on other people. If someone bumps into me talking about science and a disregard for the supernatural, it will always be on websites like this one, which is meant for that sort of thing. I only do this on my own turf, so to speak, so Theists come to me not the other way around. Very few Atheists can be deemed "Evangelical". I don't know of any Atheists that actually try and preach their thinking onto others, I merely know Atheists which teach. I for example, have never tried to force my nonbelief on other people. If someone bumps into me talking about science and a disregard for the supernatural, it will always be on websites like this one, which is meant for that sort of thing. I only do this on my own turf, so to speak, so Theists come to me not the other way around.

]]> By: Saul Burbridge http://atheistblogger.com/2009/11/19/all-aboard-the-atheist-billboard/comment-page-1/#comment-6509 Saul Burbridge Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:35:09 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/?p=1520#comment-6509 It's not like that at all. We are all for religious education. Parent's should be allowed to teach children the religion that they believe in. They just shouldn't be allowed to force that religion down the throats of their children, it's not democratic. If we Atheists were to force our non-belief on our children you would see it as "barbaric". We don't do that though, I don't know any Atheist who doesn't want their kids to choose for themselves...I don't know any Atheist that doesn't want their kids to be educated properly on these matters beforehand. It's not like that at all. We are all for religious education. Parent's should be allowed to teach children the religion that they believe in. They just shouldn't be allowed to force that religion down the throats of their children, it's not democratic. If we Atheists were to force our non-belief on our children you would see it as "barbaric". We don't do that though, I don't know any Atheist who doesn't want their kids to choose for themselves…I don't know any Atheist that doesn't want their kids to be educated properly on these matters beforehand.

]]> By: Saul Burbridge http://atheistblogger.com/2009/11/19/all-aboard-the-atheist-billboard/comment-page-1/#comment-6508 Saul Burbridge Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:32:16 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/?p=1520#comment-6508 At the end of the day, nobody should have the big decisions as to what they believe is right and wrong made for them. Everyone should have the right to choose for themselves, when they are old enough to appreciate what's what. That is the message that most of us want to give out. At the end of the day, nobody should have the big decisions as to what they believe is right and wrong made for them. Everyone should have the right to choose for themselves, when they are old enough to appreciate what's what. That is the message that most of us want to give out.

]]> By: The Nihilist http://atheistblogger.com/2009/11/19/all-aboard-the-atheist-billboard/comment-page-1/#comment-6278 The Nihilist Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:03:40 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/?p=1520#comment-6278 NZ have now launched this campaign apparently with great success. So much so that they thrashed their $10,000 fundraising target. NZ have now launched this campaign apparently with great success. So much so that they thrashed their $10,000 fundraising target.

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]]> By: The Atheist Blogger » The Children of the New BHA Billboards Are Not ‘Christian’ http://atheistblogger.com/2009/11/19/all-aboard-the-atheist-billboard/comment-page-1/#comment-6097 The Atheist Blogger » The Children of the New BHA Billboards Are Not ‘Christian’ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:07:56 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/?p=1520#comment-6097 [...] Ruth Gledhill, broke the ‘news’ over the weekend that the children featured in the new BHA billboards are ‘evangelicals’. This article has so many falsehoods and misrepresentations (not to [...] [...] Ruth Gledhill, broke the ‘news’ over the weekend that the children featured in the new BHA billboards are ‘evangelicals’. This article has so many falsehoods and misrepresentations (not to [...]

]]> By: toryninja http://atheistblogger.com/2009/11/19/all-aboard-the-atheist-billboard/comment-page-1/#comment-6092 toryninja Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:30:04 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/?p=1520#comment-6092 I apologize and take back the ignorance comment. My bad. And it was also my bad to think that all atheists think the same way. I should have qualified that: If the Evangelical Atheists had their way.... I apologize and take back the ignorance comment. My bad. And it was also my bad to think that all atheists think the same way. I should have qualified that: If the Evangelical Atheists had their way….

]]> By: Sean the Blogonaut http://atheistblogger.com/2009/11/19/all-aboard-the-atheist-billboard/comment-page-1/#comment-6091 Sean the Blogonaut Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:23:30 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/?p=1520#comment-6091 "Really, if the Atheists had their way parents would not be allowed to teach their children their religion period. You’re completly ignorant if you think otherwise." Here you are assuming that all atheists think the same way. And as for your comment about ignorance, it reads "should you disagree with me you're ignorant". Hardly conduce to discussion is it. “Really, if the Atheists had their way parents would not be allowed to teach their children their religion period. You’re completly ignorant if you think otherwise.”

Here you are assuming that all atheists think the same way. And as for your comment about ignorance, it reads “should you disagree with me you’re ignorant”. Hardly conduce to discussion is it.

]]> By: toryninja http://atheistblogger.com/2009/11/19/all-aboard-the-atheist-billboard/comment-page-1/#comment-6090 toryninja Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:11:02 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/?p=1520#comment-6090 I don't get this whole "labeling" thing. It seems completly foreign to me coming from Canada. To me the only thing this billboard is telling me is that I shouldn't raise my children up in anything. Labeling, esppecially when conjoined with the phrase "let me grow up and choose for myself" in my neck of the woods clearly communicates: "Stop teaching your children your religion or ideology." I hear Richard Dawkins talk about this all the time and it seems to me to be clearly a British phenomenon. I never say "they are Christian kids" or "Muslim kids" unless they say themselves they follow that religion. Otherwise I will just say they are from a Christian or Muslim family. Really, if the Atheists had their way parents would not be allowed to teach their children their religion period. You're completly ignorant if you think otherwise. Don't get me wrong: If any ideology had total sway in government they would want the same thing, Christianity and Islam included. I like the current status quo of freedom of speech and freedom of religion, both for children AND parents. Children often rebel against their parents anyway - why take away their ability to rebel against their parents religion? The last thing we need is the state indoctrincating us in EVERYTHING. Give parents some leadway. I don’t get this whole “labeling” thing. It seems completly foreign to me coming from Canada. To me the only thing this billboard is telling me is that I shouldn’t raise my children up in anything. Labeling, esppecially when conjoined with the phrase “let me grow up and choose for myself” in my neck of the woods clearly communicates: “Stop teaching your children your religion or ideology.” I hear Richard Dawkins talk about this all the time and it seems to me to be clearly a British phenomenon. I never say “they are Christian kids” or “Muslim kids” unless they say themselves they follow that religion. Otherwise I will just say they are from a Christian or Muslim family.

Really, if the Atheists had their way parents would not be allowed to teach their children their religion period. You’re completly ignorant if you think otherwise.

Don’t get me wrong: If any ideology had total sway in government they would want the same thing, Christianity and Islam included. I like the current status quo of freedom of speech and freedom of religion, both for children AND parents. Children often rebel against their parents anyway – why take away their ability to rebel against their parents religion? The last thing we need is the state indoctrincating us in EVERYTHING. Give parents some leadway.

]]> By: uzza http://atheistblogger.com/2009/11/19/all-aboard-the-atheist-billboard/comment-page-1/#comment-6088 uzza Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:59:55 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/?p=1520#comment-6088 Hmmm. I guess you're right. Hmmm. I guess you're right.

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