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While they were free to believe or not in whatever got them through the night, it was to be done PRIVATELY. Banned were all outward manifestations and religious symbols — no proselytizing, no problems. It resulted in the greatest migration and development of intellectuals, philosophers, scientists, writers and artists, in one of the greatest societies in the history of Western Europe.

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While too many “believers”, from Obama to Osama, Pat Robertson to Glenn Beck to Sarah Palin to Christine O’Donnell; Timothy Dolan, Bill Donohue and the Catholic League in particular, run amuck shoving their religious slop down everyone’s throat, we nonbelievers must contend with (read ‘tolerate’, roll over and play dead) the insidious and growing encroachment of religion on private and public life.

I got tired of their blather.

KEEP YOUR FAITHS OUT OF MY FACE!

BILL DONOHUE,

Where’d you get your stats?

I DO CELEBRATE THE SEASON AS IT IS. THE 25 OF DECEMBER IS AROUND THE DAY WHEN WE START GETTING MORE DAYLIGHT. THIS WAS CELEBRATED THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE CHRIST.IT CELEBRATES EARTHS TIME OF REST AND REBIRTH OF THE FRESHNESS AND NEWNESS OF ANOTHER PROSPEROUS TIME OF ANY YEARLY CYCLE. I THINK IT IS A WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR

Bad copy. No rhyme. No Reason.

I’m a Christian, but I say who cares as long as you get cool gifts LOL. Seriously, Christmas is not even a religious holiday anymore. It’s a season of busying and wasting money. They should call it Spendmas and move Jesus birthday to another day that’s more exact to his actual birth..

the date of JC birth is not mentioned in the big “B” only his death (which is the basis of the religion). some believe late Oct for his birth based on B references

I am not an athiest, but an orthodox jew. Ihope cathloics don’t think they are the only ones who oppose this ad. Howveer, in American we have freedom of expression and we can’t tell athiest what they can post. You wouldn’t want the American law to be you can’t post religious ads. si it could be the saem arguement. On the other hand, The ad should be presented at least after the holiday season when it might be less offensive for religious pople celebrating their holidays. This ad seems like a slap in the face that they had to put up the ad now!

LIVE AND LET LIVE. WHO CARES WHAT THEY SAY OR WHATEVER ANYONE ELSE SAY. PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO EXPRESS WHAT THEY WANT.

Court psychiatrist definition of a schizophrenic:

A Fixed False Believe
and
an Imaginary Friend.

This does explain the high number of stupid people in the world.

-In ancient Babylon, the feast of the Son of Isis (Goddess of Nature) was celebrated on December 25. Raucous partying, gluttonous eating and drinking, and gift-giving were traditions of this feast.
-The pagans of northern Europe celebrated the their own winter solstice, known as Yule. Yule was symbolic of the pagan Sun God, Mithras, being born, and was observed on the shortest day of the year. As the Sun God grew and matured, the days became longer and warmer.

oh and the contemporary
- the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial

sooo lets see, nope the christ in question has no reason to be a part of the season

Flynn said it all….live and let live. Believe or not believe.

Frankly, I find some of the billboards with half naked guys and half dressed girls more offensive.

Excellent reply, Flynn. As an atheist I wholeheartedly agree with you point-of-view, particularly the point about us finally saying “enough is enough”. I am bombarded by militant religion every day and it’s beyond frustrating – mostly because if I ever spoke up to say my peace I would be viewed as morally corrupt, lost soul, who can’t possibly live a happy life. No matter what I believe in my heart about religious belief, I would never dislike someone because I “found out” that they are particularly religious. Never. I work in an organization where people freely use bible quotes in the business email signatures and close business conversations with “God bless you.” If I ever countered these things with my opinion or simply stated that such talk makes me uncomfortable, there is a good chance I would suffer a set back in the professional relationship. See, I am aware that (like in government) there is NO PLACE for religion to come into play on the job. Too bad those on the other side of the fence don’t.

It is “about time” those that don’t believe publicly speak up. We’re out there and whether you like it or not, our viewpoint deserves to be heard, too. If for no other reason then to make people stop and think that there are all types of people in this world and no one should have to conform to the loudest group in the room just because they’re the loudest.

Atheists are just bitter because they asked God for something in the past, he didn’t deliver and now they don’t believe. Ignore them.

Can’t we all just get along?

Who cares. Let everyone believe what they want. The only thing I ask is to stop preching on the train when everyone is trying to get home or to work. A little annoying.

Paula, who ever said we atheists were “tolerant”? I cannot tolerate the willful ignorance of religion and the many atrocities committed through history in its name (especially Christianity!). Yes, I feel emotion and am spiritual. But I don’t believe some bullsh1t story and dogma just because somebody else told me to.

“For those who believe no explanantion is necessary, for those that do not believe, no ecplanantion will be sufficient.”
Jesus is truly the reason for the season

Who cares what they say. WHO CARES?

You Artheists Just be where you are, You have eyes but no sight, Ears burt can’t listen..

Let the athiests yak all they want…they’ll be bummin’ big time when they pass away.

The fool has said in his heart, there is no God…God said that, not me!

athiest dont just make fun of christians by making fun of us, they are making fun of every religion on erth, catholic, jews, buddist, hindu, etc. soo much for athiest being tolerant. if you dont believe, thats fine, no problem, but leave us believers alone.

Gee. THIS is an even bigger issue than the Islamic cultural center. Should these billboard ads exist? We’re waiting for Sarah, the Post, Fox, anf the rest to distract us from the Republican government shutdown letter.

Never substitute intellect with dogma.