Who says that atheists do not have holyday traditions? It has become a tradition that the closer we get to December, the more perturbed some atheists get as celebrations of Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, Ramadan, and miscellaneous are afoot.
As per usual, during a time of the year when people are generally more inclined towards charity—peace on earth and good will towards non-gender specific personages—some atheists are busily collecting hundreds upon hundreds of thousands worth of currency during a time of recession not in order to help anyone in real material need but in order to purchase bill boards and bus ads whereby they seek to demonstrate, to themselves, just how clever they consider themselves to be. These included, “billboards all over, including 10 in Albuquerque and eight in Las Vegas. And it has adorned 100 Seattle buses.”*
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is an organization established in the USA which is a country premised upon the concept of freedom of religious expression. The FFRF was founded by two atheists, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, who believe, by “faith,” in the non-existence of God—this is dogmatheism.
The FFRF seems to have an aversion to the world’s great religions promulgating joy and peace and come December, it seems as if they consider their budget for the following year and calculate how many lawsuits they will have to file in order to play the martyr-underdog and beg for donations—they are the underdogs who are not under God (a little dyslexia humor). This past December they decided to pepper Albuquerque with their (not so) unique brand of anti-Christian and pro-atheism messages; Let us succinctly consider some of their billboard messages:
“Imagine No Religion” This is quoted from the John Lennon song, “Imagine” which is an atheist anthem that calls for conversion to atheism as it states, “I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will live as one.” Activist atheism is not simply about living non-God related lives but about seeking converts. Lastly, we do not have to “imagine no religion” but merely have to consider the history of the last century; the most secular and bloodies century in human history.
Yet, no one can condemn “religion” as does God and the Bible: find the evidence here.
“Praise Darwin”
Here we see another atheist tendency; the doing away with a supernatural God and replacing Him with natural gods. “Praise God” is replaced by “Praise Darwin” as the FFRF somehow infers that God does not exist based on biology. See the essay iTheism.
Dan Barker, has stated, “Darwin has bequeathed what is good” and apparently, what is good is that “abortion is a blessing” and concluding that Jesus was “a moral monster.”
“State/Church: Keep Them Separate” / “Keep Religion Out of Government” This demonstrates an activist atheist tendency towards confusing the US Constitution’s “Establishment Clause” against a state religion which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishing of religion” with Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists in which he references “a wall of separation between Church and State.” Jefferson, deist or not, attended Christian church services in the Capitol Building. Ironically, the FFRF would have called for his impeachment for doing so. Apparently, the FFRF understand Jefferson better than Jefferson understood Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence states that we have inalienable rights that have been given to us by “our Creator…nature’s God.”
Dan Barker stated, “There are no gods…There is only our natural world,” thus his ultimate goal is to remove “religious” influence in government and replace it with atheistic influence.
“Reasons Greetings” Another anti-Christian quip replacing “Season’s Greetings.” The FFRF came very close to quoting the Bible which states, “‘Come now, let us reason together,’ says the LORD” (Isaiah 1:18). Dan Barker has stated, “we also champion reason as its [faith’s] replacement, as the only viable tool of knowledge.” Yet, ask him to justify his reliance upon reason from reason and he will reason to reason which is circular logic (actually, we cannot reason to reason as no epistemic system is ultimately self-validating).
He also misunderstands faith which is not, as the atheist talking point defines it, belief without evidence but trust; that upon which we rely once we have followed reason, evidence, etc. as far as it will go; the very same upon which he relies in order to positively affirm that “There are no gods.”
“Yes Virginia…there is no God”
This represents another of many examples of the FFRF making positively affirming God’s non-existence without providing proof. This is the very sort of “faith” based belief that the FFRF condemns in others. Annie Laurie Gaylor stated, “there is no god…it’s true.”** Frankly, such honesty, in coming out and expression atheism as denying God’s existence is refreshing, but how long will they expect us to agree with them on “faith”? As stated above: this is dogmatheism.
We can only hope that the FFRF and others will continue their propagandizing as it gives occasion to pull the mask of erudition away from the zealous atheist preacher.
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* Ann Grauvogl, “Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor are happily God-free,” Isthmus, December 18, 2009 AD
** Monica Guzman, “Seattle’s atheist bus ads: So, Virginia, is there a God?,” Seattle pi Blogs, December 14, 2009 AD
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