Atheists use 'Unholy' Water to 'Unbless' Highway

[DaddyHalbucks]

Atheists use 'Unholy' Water to 'Unbless' Highway

Now I've heard it all! Frustrated by the fact that religious leaders
blessed a portion of highway in Florida, a group of atheists decided
to "unbless" the road. Armed with scrubbers and a large container of
"unholy" water, the group sought to wash away the work done by the
Polk County organization known as Polk Under Prayer.
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http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/2012/0...bless-highway/

[L-Pink]

I'll cruse over to Polk co and "unbless" it with some used Heinekens.

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[DaddyHalbucks]

Brilliant publicity stunt.

[papill0n]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

I'll cruse over to Polk co and "unbless" it with some used Heinekens.

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you take the left lane - ill take the right

and let the pissing begin!!!

[Dirty F]

"You can't unbless something that was never blessed. Thus, they are just being ridiculous and disrespectful. If they don't believe in God, so be it. But leave me alone and leave my highways alone as well!"

But a bunch of christians blessing the road with holy water is no problem ofcourse.

[Dirty F]

Look at those comments. Fucking idiots.

[socioporn]

atheist are those who dont believe in God but believe among their selves.

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by papill0n

you take the left lane - ill take the right

and let the pissing begin!!!

This is the same county with the sheriff that makes all the porn arrests. Fucked up place.

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[DaddyHalbucks]

Originally Posted by socioporn

atheist are those who dont believe in God but believe among their selves.

Atheists love their fellow man instead of a God.

[meka2003]

Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks

Atheists use 'Unholy' Water to 'Unbless' Highway

Now I've heard it all! Frustrated by the fact that religious leaders
blessed a portion of highway in Florida, a group of atheists decided
to "unbless" the road. Armed with scrubbers and a large container of
"unholy" water, the group sought to wash away the work done by the
Polk County organization known as Polk Under Prayer.
...

http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/2012/0...bless-highway/

Sounds like they are believers of religion. Then there would be no need of "unblessing" or of such thing if they didn't believed in the first place.

[prefamous]

By unholy water they mean water. I really don't get religous people. All religion preaches love for your fellow man but they act exact opposite way. here is an interesting note stehpan hawkin was recently quoted saying "god is not neccesary". meaning he believes the universe can come into existence without a supreme being.

[Fletch XXX]

i applaud them

"Representatives from various atheist groups in the area scrubbed the road at the Pasco-Polk county line. They were figuratively removing holy oil that had been put on the road last year by a group of area religious leaders."

the only way to combat religious idiocy is this way. you cant argue with them you must do these types of things, atheist groups know this and it works and gets their point out.

[Fletch XXX]

notice how even the person in that articles says the highways belong to them?

"leave my highways alone"

exactly why they did it. the sheep are just too stupid and offended to understand the message sent. its not THEIR highway to bless in the first place, and thats precisely why this event was planned.

[cherrylula]

That page, and the commenters are scarier than the threat of satan they preach.. yikes!

[PR_Glen]

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

notice how even the person in that articles says the highways belong to them?

"leave my highways alone"

exactly why they did it. the sheep are just too stupid and offended to understand the message sent. its not THEIR highway to bless in the first place, and thats precisely why this event was planned.

atheists pushing atheism is no different than religious people pushing religion..

why should any of us care about another's faith?

[Fletch XXX]

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

atheists pushing atheism is no different than religious people pushing religion..

why should any of us care about another's faith?

thats the difference between atheists and christians, they arent trying to convert you, they are trying to bring awareness nowhere did I see anyone ask you to sign up and try come to your house, atheists dont do door to door methods.

you have it mixed up, no one is recruiting anyone here. just sending a message and it works, and gets discussions going.

[Coup]

Militant atheists are just as fucking annoying as the hardcore christian types

[CaptainHowdy]

Originally Posted by Coup

Militant atheists are just as fucking annoying as the hardcore christian types

There we go ...

[woj]

it's kinda amusing seeing everyone getting worked up over some dumb publicity stunt... trying to use logic that you can't unbless something, etc.. while completely missing the point of the event...
people need to lighten up a bit....

[Failed]

Those comments, those people, are frightening. There are no people in the world more violent and hateful than those who are apart of an organized religion. The irony...

[JFK]

Originally Posted by CaptainHowdy

There we go ...

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT Lets get ready to RUUUUMMMMMBBBBBBLE

[Tom_PM]

The atheist person said it was about symbolically welcoming EVERYone into the county rather than just christians.

In reply the church person called the atheist message negative, complained about the atheists attacking the christian message, and talked about them wanting to obliterate free speech they dont agree with.

One sounds fairly sane, if a little zany. One sounds utterly off the rails with nonsense.

[CrocMint]

Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks

Atheists use 'Unholy' Water to 'Unbless' Highway
Now I've heard it all! Frustrated by the fact that religious leaders
blessed a portion of highway in Florida, a group of atheists decided
to "unbless" the road. Armed with scrubbers and a large container of
"unholy" water, the group sought to wash away the work done by the
Polk County organization known as Polk Under Prayer.
...

Both sides are idiots

[Klen]

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

thats the difference between atheists and christians, they arent trying to convert you, they are trying to bring awareness nowhere did I see anyone ask you to sign up and try come to your house, atheists dont do door to door methods.

you have it mixed up, no one is recruiting anyone here. just sending a message and it works, and gets discussions going.

You sure about that

[u-Bob]

If they were real atheists, they would see the 'blessing' as a harmless ritual and feel no need to perform an 'unblessing ceremony'.

[CyberHustler]

[Dirty F]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

If they were real atheists, they would see the 'blessing' as a harmless ritual and feel no need to perform an 'unblessing ceremony'.

You totally missed the point.

[porno jew]

only in america do non-religious people get evangelical and fanatical about not being religious.

kind of defeats the purpose.

might as well believe in a higher power then. will be happier and live longer (according to studies).

[PR_Glen]

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

thats the difference between atheists and christians, they arent trying to convert you, they are trying to bring awareness nowhere did I see anyone ask you to sign up and try come to your house, atheists dont do door to door methods.

you have it mixed up, no one is recruiting anyone here. just sending a message and it works, and gets discussions going.

No, the only difference is the ones that go door to door have good intentions and are trying to save you (whether you believe what they are doing or not its still a positive thing)

Militant atheists (i love that term Coup) will just throw out insults and shame people into joining their club. Which is extremely backwards and most definitely negative and helps nothing.

Originally Posted by Failed

Those comments, those people, are frightening. There are no people in the world more violent and hateful than those who are apart of an organized religion. The irony...

Wrong, PEOPLE are violent and hateful, not just the religious ones... there are no teams...

[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by Dirty F

You totally missed the point.

As a nonreligious individual I don't care if people perform certain actions that they think or pretend will bestow certain 'magical/divine/...' characteristics upon an object. Personally I think the whole idea of spending time and resources on raising awareness about the silliness of certain harmless customs is just as silly as those customs themselves.

[d-null]

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

atheists pushing atheism is no different than religious people pushing religion..

why should any of us care about another's faith?

because faith has often been used to trump logic by our lawmakers and governments that make legislation that affects all of us

and the fanatics group together to wield power to influence the laws that we all are then forced to live under

[porno jew]

militant atheists are just as fucking annoying as religious nutjobs.

you can tell they still haven't overcome their initial religious programming. just swapped out one fanaticism for another.

if you don't believe in god, why still focus on it?

[Tom_PM]

Here are the only quotes from the parties themselves. The rest of the article is opinion, so I'll leave it at this and just say that neither party should have been concerned one iota about what the other did. If the atheists did their thing first, I also wouldnt have cared.

The atheists quote referring to the blessing.

"It sends a very bad signal to everyone in Polk County, and (anyone) who travels through Polk county who doesn't happen to be Christian," Palmer said, "This event is not about atheist rights; this is about welcoming everybody into Polk county."

The church response is a directly quoted comment as well.

"Having no positive statement to make, it wants to obliterate speech it disagrees with," Donohue wrote in a statement to FoxNews.com. "While the atheists are within their legal rights to attack the Christian message, it shows once again their proclivity to intolerance. Bullying is what defines them."

[SykkBoy]

Originally Posted by Coup

Militant atheists are just as fucking annoying as the hardcore christian types

Amen!

8chars

[topnotch, standup guy]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

If they were real atheists, they would see the 'blessing' as a harmless ritual and feel no need to perform an 'unblessing ceremony'.

This is true, but where's the sport in that?

Teasing batshit crazy bible thumpers until they start carrying on like wet hens is always good for a laugh.

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[baddog]

Good job in proving you do not believe. Idiots.

[Dirty F]

Originally Posted by baddog

Good job in proving you do not believe. Idiots.

You missed the point.

[socioporn]

The important thing is peace on earth. no matter what is the religion..

[woj]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

As a nonreligious individual I don't care if people perform certain actions that they think or pretend will bestow certain 'magical/divine/...' characteristics upon an object. Personally I think the whole idea of spending time and resources on raising awareness about the silliness of certain harmless customs is just as silly as those customs themselves.

one could argue that religion isn't exactly "harmless"...

[baddog]

Originally Posted by Dirty F

You missed the point.

No I did not. Do they put out traps for the Easter Bunny too?

[Jim_Gunn]

Originally Posted by porno jew

militant atheists are just as fucking annoying as religious nutjobs.

you can tell they still haven't overcome their initial religious programming. just swapped out one fanaticism for another.

if you don't believe in god, why still focus on it?

Because religion is a bad thing just like cancer, cannibalism and pedophilia are. Militant atheists are trying to educate the ignorant and make the world a better place. The belief in deities is a virus on mankind that will eventually fade away into the ash heap of history and be looked back on as a primitive, ridiculous and shameful chapter of human history.

[SykkBoy]

Originally Posted by porno jew

militant atheists are just as fucking annoying as religious nutjobs.

you can tell they still haven't overcome their initial religious programming. just swapped out one fanaticism for another.

if you don't believe in god, why still focus on it?

This has long been a point of mine...

as much as I hate "you must believe what I say because God says so" I equally hate "I'm brilliant because I'm the only one who ever thought to make fun of an invisible man in the sky"

[Fletch XXX]

the atheists have so won in this. Some "idiots" as you guys say, spread water around on a road to poke fun at religion and its got the entire internet discussing religion. get over it.

WIN!

[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by woj

one could argue that religion isn't exactly "harmless"... 2 cents:

The most hideous crimes in the history of mankind have been committed by people who thought they were doing the right thing. They either had good intentions and believed they were doing what they were supposed to be doing or they used those 'good intentions' as an excuse to justify their actions.

I admit that religions have been used in this way. As a way to justify certain actions, as a way to get people to join in and commit crimes, as a way to silence opposition,...

But just like wet sidewalks don't cause rain, it would be a logical fallacy to automatically conclude that religions cause harm. We see the same kind of behavior that we despise/fear in certain religious groups in other groups like environmentalists, scientific utopians, statists of all varieties,.... Even the so called Rally for Sanity was a good example of sheeplike behavior.

Like I said, I'm not religious. I don't believe in God or any gods. But I don't care what my neighbor believes in. If my neighbor wants to worship a piece of toast because he thinks he can see the face of Jehova in it if he holds it under a blacklight that's fine by me. If my other neighbor wants to dress in pink every day because that's part of his religion, that's fine by me. If the lady across the street wants to spend all her time reading a 2000 year old book over and over again, that's fine by me.

Their body, their property, their decision. As long as they don't cause damage to me or my property, I don't care what they do. I believe that's called tolerance.

[John-ACWM]

LOL good one. Stupidity and creativity is a good source for a few laughs.

[baddog]

What is amusing is that technically, when you add any water to blessed water, it too becomes holy. You can not dilute it. So if anything, they reconsecrated it.

[Dirty F]

Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

Because religion is a bad thing just like cancer, cannibalism and pedophilia are. Militant atheists are trying to educate the ignorant and make the world a better place. The belief in deities is a virus on mankind that will eventually fade away into the ash heap of history and be looked back on as a primitive, ridiculous and shameful chapter of human history.

[Dirty F]

Originally Posted by baddog

What is amusing is that technically, when you add any water to blessed water, it too becomes holy. You can not dilute it. So if anything, they reconsecrated it.

I think you missed the point. Yes, i'm sure.

[Best-In-BC]

Originally Posted by socioporn

atheist are those who dont believe in God but believe among their selves.

[porno jew]

Originally Posted by SykkBoy

This has long been a point of mine...

as much as I hate "you must believe what I say because God says so" I equally hate "I'm brilliant because I'm the only one who ever thought to make fun of an invisible man in the sky"

i don't believe in a old man sitting in a throne in the sky, so i sure the fuck are not going to spend my life fighting one.

my parents god bless their souls didn't raise me religious so i don't feel the need to switch out a religious world view for some other belief system.