Pull the Plug on Christianity
Posted: April 24, 2009 at 8:41 am 
I spotted this bit of bullshit while driving around.
To anyone with the least bit of education can easily see where this billboard is dead wrong. It shows a picture of Charles Darwin, a man who while at Cambridge studied Paley’s Natural Theology which made an argument for divine design in nature, explaining adaptation as god acting through laws of nature. Of course his interest in natural history inspired his theory of natural selection, a theory that has proven to be correct in 200 years of research by others in such diverse fields as geology, biology and astronomy. From the age of forty he was, to use his own words, a complete dis-believer in Christianity. He professed himself an agnostic not an atheist. So if you are going pick a man to be the image of the average atheist, Darwin is a rather weak choice, Maybe Benjamin Franklin, Bertrand Russell or Thomas Jefferson would be a better choice. But Christian sure do not want to admit many of the countries founding fathers were not Christians.
And then you have the uninformed idea that evolution is an atheist belief. It ignores the fact there are many religious people out there who accept the biological reality of evolution but believe a god made evolution as a tool for designing man. Even the Pope accepts evolution. So here again Darwin is a stupid choice. Fact is one could be an atheist but not believe in evolution. True not very likely but I can imagine someone out there who thinks man is merely the product of alien experiments and our entire universe exist only in a petri disk in a giant alien laboratory.
You then have the silly idea evolution makes a statement on the issue of existence, it does not. Evolution only makes an observation of the reality that living matter changes over time and that plants and animals, including man, show unmistakable signs of evolving from similar species. The idea of something from nothing is not a biological question, but a cosmological one. Our expanding universe tends to support a Big Bang beginning but makes no statement on what came before, or if time even existed “before”. Science is honest in that regard, saying we may never be able to say what happened at the Big Bang. Religion on the other hand prefers you to buy an intellectual dead end, god did it they says, but ask what came before god and they don’t even want to think about it.
Now imaging if I were to buy a billboard saying “Pull the Plug on Christianity” or “Pull the Plug on Judaism”. I would be accused of promoting religious hatred.
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Tell those Fukin’ Gideons 2 geet!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
Hi,
I saw that too, and I made the website: http://www.pulltheplugontheism.com
I have to counteract this somehow,
Cheers Arend
What about “pull the plug on theism”?
I will start by congratulating you on the effort you put into this thread, and you do make very solid points. However, I strongly recommend that, in the future, you refrain from vulgar language, lest the various opponents to Atheism and the various affiliated ideas and beliefs thereof mistake all Atheists for unintelligent brutes.
On to your apparent stereotype of Christians being the primary opponents of Atheism. I can almost guarantee that Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, the homeless guys who run around in tinfoil fats and moon boots screaming at cars, and virtually all other religious groups are opponents to Atheism. I recommend you either broaden your terms or prepare for the hate of everybody who disagrees with other people.
Now to quote you, this is the very last phrase of Paragraph 3:
“but ask what came before god and they don’t even want to think about it”
The Christian and Muslim answers are quite simple, and very much the same: “God was, is and will be”, or in other words, God has no beginning or end. The Hindu answer is rather intriguing to think about, and that is that a god called Brahma created everything, and that since then the universe has undergone an infinite number of deaths and rebirths at the hands of a god known as Shiva who carries a drum to sound the birth of the universe and a fire that will destroy it in the distant future.
As a final point, the use of Darwin as an example of an Atheist is simply playing on the stereotypes of the unknowing masses. A technique that is quite popular among the various “news” sources we see every day.
On a side note, isn’t titling this thread “Pull the Plug on Christianity” in and of itself religious hatred? A website is just as public as any billboard, and under some circumstances even more so.
Thanks for taking the time to read my response, I hope it is informative, or at least thought-provoking for all who read it.
-John