At N.C.’s Billy Graham Parkway an atheist billboard that read, “One Nation Indivisible” was spray painted to also read, “Under God.”
Obviously, the atheists who purchased the billboard (the Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics) have a tremendous amount of money and can waste it—during a time of recession—on attempting to advertize just how clever they are rather than helping anyone in need.
It is interesting that they chose to place it on Billy Graham Parkway since I can imagine, do not know but can certainly propose a solid hypothesis, that they did so in order to cause division. This is the very reason why “One Nation Indivisible” became divisible when their taunts were responded to via spray paint. I certainly do not condone defacing someone else’s property. The point is that they, likely, sought to antagonize and are now being antagonized. They should seek indivisibility and the defacers should turn the other cheek.
William Warren, spokesman Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics, stated,
It was done by one or two people off on their own who decided their only recourse was vandalism rather than having a conversation…
It does show how needed our message is. As atheists, we want to let people know we exist and that there’s a community here.
Yet, no one outside of N.C. would know about the billboard until it was defaced thus, it was an odd sort of blessing undisguised as this has set off the conversation. Also, if their goal was to let people know that they exist and that there is community in N.C. why did not the billboard read, “Atheists and agnostics exist and we have a group in N.C.”?
Lastly, note that a 2007 study by the Pew Research Center, “about 6 percent of Americans are secular. Less than 2 percent of all Americans identify as atheist.”1
For a consideration of the logically fallacious nature of the money wasting atheist bus ads and billboards, please see the essays at this link