Atheists offended by their own dogma

This billboard was removed from outside a Johannesburg church because an atheist was offended.

From here:

A church advertising campaign that depicted atheists as stupid has been banned by a watchdog in South Africa.

Officials ruled a billboard that suggested non-believers considered their existence to be accidental was likely to be found offensive.

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the ASA noted that it was obliged to consider the advertisement’s content after it received a complaint from a non-Christian member of the public.

Laying out its judgement on the matter, the authority stated that the complainant, Eugene Gerber, felt offended by the suggestion he was stupid.

The ruling stated: ‘In essence, the complainant submitted that the billboard offends him as an atheist as he does not consider his existence to be an accident.

‘Secondly, the depiction of a man with an empty head communicates that atheists are stupid.’

A few points:

First, I can’t see anything wrong with offending atheists. After all, Richard Dawkins has made a career out of offending Christians.

Second, if there is no God,  Eugene Gerber is a product of unguided evolution: an accident. An unfortunate accident, perhaps, but an accident nevertheless.

Third, a vast number of atheists, particularly the new atheists and those who have fallen under their spell, are stupid. They are incapable of applying the critical reasoning that they think demolishes religion to their own belief system: that is stupid.

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