Let Your “Light” Shine For Christ This Christmas Season!
(Photo: American Family Association)

Is it me or does this just scream “Have yourself a dreary little Christmas?” And forget that whole “Make the Yule-tide gay” part, because this is a very special holiday offering from Reverend Donald Wildmon’s homo-hating American Family Association.

5.5 feet tall with 210 individual ultra bright lights and an affordable $81.85 (shipping included).

I have one question for Herr Wildmon: Does this come in a Kwanzaa version with actual flames? 

On the other hand, The American Humanist Association offers up these colorful, holiday bus perker-uppers destined to appear on the sides and interiors of over 200 Washington DC Metro buses. 

Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake.
(Photo: The American Humanist Association)

Now who’s gonna have the happier holiday?

The Atheist Experience, in a post called The usual whiny hypocrisy, points to ten billboards that are going up for the holidays in the Denver area. And, needless to say the Christianists, who carry on incessantly about religious freedom, are furious. The billboards read: “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone,” and that message has local pastor Willard Johnson’s knickers in a knot.

From ABC7/The Denver Channel:

A controversial billboard will likely be popping up in a neighborhood near you, just in time for the holidays. 

The billboard is paid for by a Colorado atheist group. The message sits against a blue sky backdrop and says, “Don’t believe in God? You’re not alone.” 

Ten billboards will pepper metro Denver, while one will be put up in Colorado Springs.

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Pastor Willard Johnson of Denver’s Macedonia Baptist Church called the billboards a desperate effort to discredit Christianity. 

“The Bible is being fulfilled. It says that in latter days, you have all these kinds of things coming up, trying to disrupt the validity of Christianity,” Johnson said. “If they don’t believe in God, how do they believe they came about? We denounce what they are doing. But we do it with love, with gentleness, with decency and with compassion.” 

Bob Enyart, a Christian radio host and spokesman for American Right to Life, said it’s hard to ignore the evidence. 

“The Bible says that faith is the evidence of things not seen. Evidence. If we ignore the evidence for gravity or the Creator, that’s really dangerous,” said Enyart. “Income tax doesn’t not exist because somebody doesn’t believe in it. And the same is true with our Creator.”

“With love, with gentleness, with decency and with compassion” and with a shitload of Christianist billboards across the country, because they’ve cornered the market on religious freedom and others need not apply.

So this is “a desperate effort to discredit Christianity” …
(Photo: The Atheist Experience)

… and this is “love, gentleness, decency and compassion?”
(Photo: The Atheist Experience)

Atheist Experience has this message for the Christianist whiners:

Go ahead, be offended, Christians. That’s one of the things you have to deal with when living in a free, pluralistic society. There will be people who think differently than you do, who believe in different things, and who will express those differing views. I know most of you want the place all to yourselves, but you have to share it, just like you have to share it with people of different races and sexual preferences and tastes in music. And if the simplest and mildest expression of a view different from your own makes you go into red alert mode, and wail about the evil militant whomevers who obviously hate the whole country because they aren’t just like you, then perhaps you need to step back a bit, take a big fat chill pill, and think quite seriously about who’s really got the problem here.

Speaking of Christianists with problems, Jeremy at Good As You points out that Fred (God Hates Fags) Phelps wants in on the holiday bus ad action. In a press release aimed at CBS Outdoor advertising executive, Jason Jones, Fred says, “Westboro Baptist Church would like to run a responsive ad campaign on the sides of the buses which are available for purchase for advertisement in Washington DC. There is some urgency to our ad campaign, as it directly responds to the atheists ad campaign “Why Believe In God?” currently running in that same market.”

Some urgency? Well, of course. It’ll take the Phelps Klan some doin’ to get this little dog-and-pony on the road in time for the holidays:

More Christianist love, gentleness, decency and compassion
(Photo: GodHatesFags)

Tags: Fred Phelps, Reason, TheoFascism

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