friendlyatheist:
Billboard campaign rebuts ‘one nation under God’ – Religion – CNN.com Blogs
Notice anything missing? The phrase “under God,” which appears between “One nation” and “indivisible” in the Pledge, is absent on the billboard.
William Warren, a member of the North Carolina Secular Association, says his group put the ads up on billboards across the state to let people know that patriotism and belief in God are not always synonymous.
The billboards are appearing in a half-dozen locations across the state, including Asheville, Winston-Salem and Raleigh, in addition to Charlotte.
Warren, an atheist, says people who share his beliefs often fear losing their job or their friendships. The billboard is designed to encourage them to be more open.
“We’re here. We’re your neighbors, your co-workers,” he says. “We’re not happy that we have to hide who we are everyday.”
Yeah, but the billboard should include “right?” after the slogan because leaving out the “under God” part IS what is dividing us—er divising (??). In fact, the reason this post even caught my eye was because the slogan is so inherently fictional (as is the claim in the Pledge of Allegiance it paraphrases). We, The People, are entirely too divisible as is evidenced by racism, religious hatred, political hatred and more. Hell, our 24-hour news networks would seem to be off the air if they couldn’t divide us and make us angry with one another.
Red state versus blue state, straights versus gay, Christians versus atheists, environmentalists versus stupid people ;), blah, blah, blah.
We spend so much time pointing out how other people are wrong that we miss the real problems facing us all and when that happens, those problems get worse.
And yes, I mean it when I say environmentalists are the opposite of stupid people. If you don’t want to protect the environment you don’t want to protect the thing that keeps you alive.
If you don’t want to protect the thing that keeps you alive then you are stupid in my mind.
