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Atheist Billboard
Atheist BillboardThe Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry has spent thousands of dollars to have a billboard rasied by Interstate-26 with the question: “Do You Believe In God?“ “You Are Not Alone”
The group says it has no intention of turning believers into non-believers with this campaign. Instead, they want those who do not believe in a supernatural being to know that there is a happy and welcoming community of other-like minded people.
Brendan Clark talks with the co-founder and Vice-President of this group, Herb Silverman about this billboard.
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The best thing about the United States is its rich mixture of people. It is reported that the United States has a greater number of religious groups than any other country in the world. I know this is an unusual stance by a Christian, but I by in large fundamentally believe that no Religious belief should be FORCED on a person. Now this does not mean that parents shouldn’t expose their offspring to what they believe (Proverbs 22:6), but in all my studies of the Bible, I don’t see where Jesus or GOD, FORCED themselves on anyone. The conversion to being a Christian is a conversion of the heart brought about from being exposed to accepting the truth of Jesus Christ. However, God does not force people to except him, he give us that choice. So we have two camps believers and non-believes. There are people of both camps that are in prison. There are people in both camps who are productive members of society, who raise their families under the best of their abilities. No matter what you believe, think we all want good schools, safe neighborhoods, good health and the right to achieve our goals to the best of our abilities. There are people of both camps that are famous artists, writers, philanthropists, activists, composers, actors, musicians and scientists. While there are many that think science is almost always anti-God, it is known that Albert Einstein was a believer. Charles Darwin, by his own admission, was never an atheist. In fact his own words indicate that, at least on some occasions, he gravitated toward a belief in God. He said 'In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of God." (Darwin, Francis, The Life of Charles Darwin. London: Tiger Books,1995, 55.). The beautiful part of living in the United States is that we do have the freedom to explore our beliefs without a government mandate to adhere any particular one or any at all. This is the true meaning of “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” Thou I always find it strange that more emphasis is put on the former part of the statement than the latter.
The belief in God, no matter the religion is based on faith. There are several writings, scripture, and verses on this matter. Our faith is not alone what we believe, but what we do with what we believe. In the bible if the book of James you can find these words “In the same way faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead by itself.” As Christians we often speak often of the grace of God, but how to we achieve His grace, if we don’t exercise our faith. I subscribe to the Baptist branch of Christianity generally because of it value of religion freedom. The English philosopher John Locke described our faith well we he said “The Baptists were the first propounders of absolute liberty, just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty.” That freedom is a belief to take pride in and one of the core values of our nation. This statement it says that for Baptist (or those who subscribe to religious freedom), we are not only merely tolerant or appreciative of others, but that we expect this freedom in is broadest and truest sense. We as Americans demand unrestricted religious freedom for ourselves and for all other be they Christian, Hindu, Catholic, Jewish, Humanist, Muslim, Wiccan, Atheist, Agnostic, New Age, Scientologist, Native American, Unitarian Universalist, or questioning seeker.
Victor Swindell
www.PepperEyes.com
Thank you, Lowcountry Humanists and President Obama! As a nonbeliever, it feels great to be acknowledged. I feel the warmth of inclusion bubbiling up from within!
There is a great deal of difference between "Do you believe in God?" and "Don't believe in God?"
Always trying to get that Christian slant in there, Huh?
Try and stick with the correct quote, whydoncha?
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