An Easter Message Of Reason

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2008-03-30 06:49pm

This is especially funny since that area was littered with various "God" billboards several years back.

Here's an example:

The only outrage was generated by the Christians when some people wanted them taken down.

CaptJodan · Post by **CaptJodan** » 2008-03-30 07:38pm

Flagg wrote:This is especially funny since that area was littered with various "God" billboards several years back.

Here's an example:

The only outrage was generated by the Christians when some people wanted them taken down.

No, those are still up. I promise you. I'm in fundieland-USA Mobile Alabama after driving up 4 days ago, and I saw several of them on the Florida Turnpike and a few on I-75. I'm sure I'll see a couple tomorrow on my way back.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2008-03-30 07:44pm

CaptJodan wrote:
Flagg wrote:This is especially funny since that area was littered with various "God" billboards several years back.

Here's an example:
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The only outrage was generated by the Christians when some people wanted them taken down.
No, those are still up. I promise you. I'm in fundieland-USA Mobile Alabama after driving up 4 days ago, and I saw several of them on the Florida Turnpike and a few on I-75. I'm sure I'll see a couple tomorrow on my way back.

Yeah, they were all over the place up and down I-95 about the turn of the century, but I hadn't really seen any since then. I don't remember seeing any when I drove out to WA, either. I just assumed they had stopped doing them since billboards were being banned in alot of places and the rates for them went up.

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2008-03-30 08:51pm

Flagg wrote:Yeah, they were all over the place up and down I-95 about the turn of the century, but I hadn't really seen any since then. I don't remember seeing any when I drove out to WA, either. I just assumed they had stopped doing them since billboards were being banned in alot of places and the rates for them went up.

These billboards were banned? Out of curiosity, do you know why? Unless they were put up using public money (which would violate the first amendment), what would be the argument for banning them?

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2008-03-30 08:59pm

SCRawl wrote:
Flagg wrote:Yeah, they were all over the place up and down I-95 about the turn of the century, but I hadn't really seen any since then. I don't remember seeing any when I drove out to WA, either. I just assumed they had stopped doing them since billboards were being banned in alot of places and the rates for them went up.
These billboards were banned? Out of curiosity, do you know why? Unless they were put up using public money (which would violate the first amendment), what would be the argument for banning them?

Not these in particular, but billboards in general. They were being banned as eyesores in alot of communities.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2008-03-30 09:47pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:
Stas Bush wrote:That sign rocks. How were they able to remove that if it was legally paid for?
It wasn't; the company that owns the billboard said it was put up overnight without their knowledge.
Either that or they just said this in order to placate angry business owners and residents in the area.

I'll admit that I don't know the first thing about putting up a billboard, but I can't imagine that it's some simple process that any idiot can do in the middle of the night. You probably have to haul several rolls of industrial paper around and plaster them up with special adhesives or something.

Stormin · Post by **Stormin** » 2008-03-30 11:28pm

Durandal wrote:I'll admit that I don't know the first thing about putting up a billboard, but I can't imagine that it's some simple process that any idiot can do in the middle of the night. You probably have to haul several rolls of industrial paper around and plaster them up with special adhesives or something.

If it's just a fake you don't have to use industrial strength stuff or long lasting glues, most prank billboard cover-ups usually only last a week or less before the owner gets enough complaints that they fix it.

TithonusSyndrome · Post by **TithonusSyndrome** » 2008-03-30 11:41pm

Stormin wrote:
Durandal wrote:I'll admit that I don't know the first thing about putting up a billboard, but I can't imagine that it's some simple process that any idiot can do in the middle of the night. You probably have to haul several rolls of industrial paper around and plaster them up with special adhesives or something.

If it's just a fake you don't have to use industrial strength stuff or long lasting glues, most prank billboard cover-ups usually only last a week or less before the owner gets enough complaints that they fix it.

Yeah, I've seen guerilla anti-consumer groups like adbusters do that in major metropolitan centers. It would be that much easier to do on a small street in Florida.

KlavoHunter · Post by **KlavoHunter** » 2008-03-31 01:36am

I frowned when I saw a religious billboard up right across the street from a Planned Parenthood.

Ryan Thunder · Post by **Ryan Thunder** » 2008-03-31 09:52am

Flagg wrote:Here's an example:
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What the hell kind of message is *that* to put on a Christian billboard? I was expecting something to the effect of "Jesus loves you."

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2008-03-31 10:01am

Ryan Thunder wrote:
Flagg wrote:Here's an example:
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What the hell kind of message is *that* to put on a Christian billboard? I was expecting something to the effect of "Jesus loves you."

It is more in keeping with the tone though, after all, God and Bubba from the maximum security wing have a lot in common on a psychological level.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-03-31 10:17am

Ryan Thunder wrote:
Flagg wrote:Here's an example:
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What the hell kind of message is *that* to put on a Christian billboard? I was expecting something to the effect of "Jesus loves you."

Christians routinely speak on behalf of God, even though they're not supposed to. How often do you hear people explaining what God wants or thinks or hates or loves, as if they're his anointed messengers? In America, it's even worse because God is all mixed up with what they call "patriotism". That billboard exemplifies both problems.