Atheist Billboards and the Price of Tea in China

[JoeyKnothead]

from here:

Atheist billboard removed after site owner threatened.

We weren't given the landowner's identity or precise details," reported Fred Edwords, national director of the United Coalition of Reason. "Nor did we pursue them. It was sufficient to learn that multiple, significant threats had been received and that Lamar would act quickly to alleviate the problem. Lamar was most apologetic to us regarding the situation. It was a development they hadn't expected. Nor had we. Nothing like this has ever happened to us before.

For bickerin':

Is it moral to threaten others in order to silence their legal message?

[Vanguard]

from here:

Atheist billboard removed after site owner threatened.

We weren't given the landowner's identity or precise details," reported Fred Edwords, national director of the United Coalition of Reason. "Nor did we pursue them. It was sufficient to learn that multiple, significant threats had been received and that Lamar would act quickly to alleviate the problem. Lamar was most apologetic to us regarding the situation. It was a development they hadn't expected. Nor had we. Nothing like this has ever happened to us before.

For bickerin':

Is it moral to threaten others in order to silence their legal message?

Threaten with bodily harm? No. Threaten to boycott their product? Bring it on. Interestingly the company did not specify - at least in the article - the nature of the threat though conventional wisdom tells us it must be of a violent nature. I wondered whether the company may have purposefully kept it vaque in order to hide the possibile fact that the threats really were just threats of boycott or some such.

[OpenedUp]

from here:

Atheist billboard removed after site owner threatened.

We weren't given the landowner's identity or precise details," reported Fred Edwords, national director of the United Coalition of Reason. "Nor did we pursue them. It was sufficient to learn that multiple, significant threats had been received and that Lamar would act quickly to alleviate the problem. Lamar was most apologetic to us regarding the situation. It was a development they hadn't expected. Nor had we. Nothing like this has ever happened to us before.

For bickerin':

Is it moral to threaten others in order to silence their legal message?

Threaten with bodily harm? No. Threaten to boycott their product? Bring it on. Interestingly the company did not specify - at least in the article - the nature of the threat though conventional wisdom tells us it must be of a violent nature. I wondered whether the company may have purposefully kept it vaque in order to hide the possibile fact that the threats really were just threats of boycott or some such.

Do you really think that they would have taken down the billboard on threats of boycott? And boycott what, exactly? Atheists?

"Apparently they were vicious threats of some kind. I don't know the exact nature of the threats but yes," said Welte.

I'm thinking it was a little more significant than that

[shakes]

Jesus Christ, what kind of an idiot puts up an atheist message on a billboard anywhere in the good old USA and doesn't expect to have to take it down almost immediately? Atheists are the stupidest people in the world. For crying out loud, all you have to do is give lip service to god and you're blessed. Retards.

[T-mash]

Jesus Christ, what kind of an idiot puts up an atheist message on a billboard anywhere in the good old USA and doesn't expect to have to take it down almost immediately? Atheists are the stupidest people in the world. For crying out loud, all you have to do is give lip service to god and you're blessed. Retards.

Give lip service to god? Maybe it doesn't translate over well to French but that sounds hilarious

[otseng]

Jesus Christ, what kind of an idiot puts up an atheist message on a billboard anywhere in the good old USA and doesn't expect to have to take it down almost immediately? Atheists are the stupidest people in the world. For crying out loud, all you have to do is give lip service to god and you're blessed. Retards.

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