The atheist billboard reading “Imagine No Religion” has been taken down shortly after it was put up in Rancho Cucamonga, California. There were 90 complaints and the city demanded its removal and the General Outdoor company was more than willing to comply. Yet, the billboard on the right a few years ago seems perfectly acceptable in West Virginia. 
I am not sure why Freedom From Religion Foundation did not replace the billboard with “Imagine No Free Speech.”
The West Virginia sign appears to be nothing but a crowd pleaser in West Virginia.
This is a true lesson into deductive reasoning gone terribly wrong by the Rev. E.F. Briggs of Monongah, West Virginia. The Reverend must have been filled with God’s Love on the holidays when he wrote:
Attention: Lunatics Atheists & Their Lawyers
Anti-God is Anti-American
Anti-American is Treason
Traitors Lead to Civil War
If you simply remove the word American and replaced it with Iranian, you would have the perfect sign for Tehran. How about this alternative following the same deductive reasoning:
Attention: Fanatics Theocrats & Their Ministers
God Loves Freedom
Freedom Requires a Separation of Church and State
Separation is Opposed by Religious Fanatics
Religious Fanatics Hate God.
Or then there is the more personal
America Loves Freedom
Freedom Demands Church and State Separation
Rev. Briggs Hates Separation
Rev. Briggs Hates AmericaBriggs passed away in 2006 so he may be in a better place or, God help him, a pure free speech zone where he has to listen to opposing views for eternity.
For the world according to Briggs, click here.
Patty C
1, December 12, 2008 at 8:33 pm
“Like I said BARTLEBEE, we can do this any time you want.
Give my your lawyers number. I’ll be delighted to speak
with him…
Only this time, I’ll be happy to conference in Buddha
-in a 3-way! Hah!”
Once more words elude me, you are clearly insane, but if you’re asking for help, what’s your number lady?
I’ll call you right now.
Patty C
1, December 12, 2008 at 8:19 pm
““And you can take seamus and Thingum Bob Esq with you!”
And as for this gem, I haven’t a clue who these people are but if they’re enemies of your’s then they sound ok by me.
Like I said BARTLEBEE, we can do this any time you want.
Give my your lawyers number. I’ll be delighted to speak
with him… 😉
Only this time, I’ll be happy to conference in Buddha
-in a 3-way! Hah!
Patty C
1, December 12, 2008 at 8:19 pm
“And you can take seamus and Thingum Bob Esq with you!
Just because Jill talks trashy doesn’t mean others, like myself, appreciate it. I don’t like that style and I call her on it as well
– mainly because it encourages ‘yahoos’ like you
”
“yahoos” lol.
What are you Annie Oakley?
I’m not sure what your problem is lady, but last time I checked no one asked for your opinion, so why don’t you crawl back into whatever hole you crawled out of, and leave the civil discourse to the adults?
Patty C
1, December 12, 2008 at 8:19 pm
“Pardon me. You will kindly respond like a gentleman
– or leave.”
Respond to what? This?
Patty C
1, December 12, 2008 at 7:14 pm
“WAYNEBRO a/k/a/ CMM a/k/a BARTLEBEE:
Not interested in your brass pole, or anything else you
imagine passes for ‘genitalia’ – much less humor.
Take a hike. You ain’t got(no)
class.”
Sorry, but when you learn to talk like a lady, instead of a trailer trash troll, then I’ll respond like a gentlemen.
In the meantime, how bout you kiss my ass?
Pardon me. You will kindly respond like a gentleman
– or leave.
And you can take seamus and Thingum Bob Esq with you!
Just because Jill talks trashy doesn’t mean others, like myself, appreciate it. I don’t like that style and I call her on it as well
– mainly because it encourages ‘yahoos’ like you…
One minute I’m having a conversation with Mike Spindell and the next I’ve got some crazy nutjob yelling at me calling me names out of the blue.
Guess theres one in every blog.
Well lady, whoever you are, since I’ve said nothing to you how about you “take a hike”?
I’ve got as much right to be here as you.
WAYNEBRO a/k/a/ CMM a/k/a BARTLEBEE:
Not interested in your brass pole, or anything else you
imagine passes for ‘genitalia’ – much less humor.
Take a hike. You ain’t got(no)
class.
PC
p.s. Once again, THANKS, Jill!!!
The members of the Westboro Blabtist church are many things.
Christian is not however one of them.
Just got to read the lyrics from, “the text of the Westboro Baptist Church’s message would read:
“You’d better watch out, get ready to cry, You’d better go hide, I’m telling you why ‘cuz Santa Claus will take you to hell. He is your favorite idol, you worship at his feet, but when you stand before your God He won’t help you take the heat. So get this fact straight: you’re feeling God’s hate, Santa’s to blame for the economy’s fate, Santa Claus will take you to hell.”
Alternet
Them christians are really stylin’
Jill. Those of us who celebrate “Festivus”, …”Festivian’s” you can call us, have been persecuted for many years now.
Indeed its gotten so bad I’ve been forced to resort to using the brass pole at the local, er….gentlemans club (or genitalmen’s club if you will)for the airing of grievances.
This story is from Alternet:
“The skirmish over Christmas in Washington state just gets funnier every day.
Now someone wants to put up a Festivus pole in the capitol. That’s hilarious enough, but it gets better.
The Westboro Baptist Church has demanded to be allowed to put up a sign that says, “Santa Claus will take you to Hell”.”
That’s pretty catchy! And there’s a wonderful poster of Jesus with a large gun next to the article. The caption says: “Merry Christmas Bitches”.
Waynebro:
I’m assuming blinky means Americans who “have always come to the AID of fellow human beings….” If so, I might add to your list the penned-up Japanese-Americans living in California during the 1940’s, along with a whole host of cotton pickers south of the Mason-Dixon line until about 1863.
“find out just how truly GREAT America is and how Americans have always come to the need of fellow human beings on our great world.”
Like the Sioux?
I haven’t been in a University in over 25 years nimrod, and the day I need a pinhead like you to tell me anything about America, history or the world I’ll visit the local animal shelter.
Waynebro writes: “this is not Nazi’s or a Japanese emperor we are fighting for land, culture, and possessions.”
Yea, that’s more our schtick.”
Hey JERKBAIT American hater: I was not inferring we were fighting them for land, culture, & possessions. I guess you really are an idiot. I was referring to our fighting against their desire for OTHER’s land, the imposition of THEIR culture on others, and the theft of OTHER’s possession by them.
I suggest you do a little homework away from the far left loons teaching you at your squackbox University and find out just how truly GREAT America is and how Americans have always come to the need of fellow human beings on our great world.
waynebro (idiot boy) writes: “Half a dozen nuclear warheads detonating over their cities, laying waste to their homeland for the next century, wiping out their population and contaminating most of the survivors? Not to mention the inevitable US and UN follow up strikes?”
I guess waynebro has zero knowledge of Radical Islam and the belief of the inevitability of the Final Battle to them. They believe the sacrifice of 24 million Iranians and an entire country would be but a speck in the eye of Allah whom they believe would be guiding them to a new world ruled by Shariah Law and that the Final Battle would be glorious for Islam. Waynebro: this is not Nazi’s or a Japanese emperor we are fighting for land, culture, and possessions. These radicals believe they are fighting for their Koran, their souls, the hereafter, and eternity with Allah.
Grow up little boy.
Blinky,
I am violating one of my sacrosanct rules, but I have to suggest that it is our religous right who believe in expediting the end of time. That being said, I just can’t imagine a city ordering a sign down because it is “jarring”! I have to agree that a court would have to order the city to replace the sign. And I am with Jill, that would be a good thing.
Waynebro: “this is not Nazi’s or a Japanese emperor we are fighting for land, culture, and possessions.”
Yea, that’s more our schtick.
“These radicals believe they are fighting for their Koran, their souls, the hereafter, and eternity with Allah.”
Really? Then someone better tell Ahmadinejad to strip out of the Dockers and London Fog jackets before anyone notices.
“Grow up little boy.”
I will when you will.