Lamar Outdoor Advertising (who own most of the billboards in Alabama) refused to rent billboards such as the above. While I appreciate their stance, I also wonder what Christians are saying by such censorship. Are we afraid to imagine a world with no religion?
I would want no part of such a world. We have a hard enough time living up to the commands to love God and love others as we love ourselves. It would be a scary place--a world in which we think "this is it. Eat drink and do what you want to because in 100 years no one will care about anything".
Would you like to be President or molest a small child, have at it because it's all the same in the end. I can buy atheism, but I can't buy the atheism that says, "there is no God, there is no truth, but you shouldn't kill your grandmother for her millions, anyway." Maybe I'm just too thick between the ears, but the relativists' argument that we shouldn't kill or screw(literally or figuratively) each other because society can't survive, holds no water whatsoever. Why should I care if society survives or not? Why should I care about anything?
Was it Sarte that said the only relevant question for modern man was whether or not to commit suicide? I'm sorry to say, Mr. Sarte that if there is no God, even that question doesn't matter in the end.
Imagine a world like that.
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Eat, drink and be happy. For tomorrow we die. Or don't be happy. For tomorrow we die. For we die.
I think your post is missing the point of the Freedom From Religion Foundation's message. They aren't asking people to imagine a world without god/deity/creator (in whatever form), but a world without religion. Religion is not god, nor is god religion. Religion in the general form is a social structure oriented around a given god concept. Religion is not necessary for belief in the god concept. Considering the millions of people who have been discriminated against, oppressed, tortured, maimed, driven insane, or killed over the millenia, in the name of religion, perhaps we'd be better off without religion. Well these words aren't going to change anyone's mind about the subject, so go ahead and believe what you want to!
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