{"id":9118,"date":"2010-06-24T00:19:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T04:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9118"},"modified":"2010-06-24T00:19:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T04:19:24","slug":"atheist-billboard-on-billy-graham-parkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-billboard-on-billy-graham-parkway\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist billboard on Billy Graham Parkway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An atheist billboard along Billy Graham Parkway?<\/p>\n

Yep, there it is – “One Nation Indivisible,” with the “under God” left out – high atop the parkway, near Boyer Street.<\/p>\n

But “no, no, no,” it wasn’t intended as a slap at the world’s most famous evangelist, said a spokesman for Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics.<\/p>\n

“It just kind of happened that way,” said William Warren, a spokesman for the group, which is part of a statewide coalition of nonbelievers that is placing the same billboard in five other cities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is much more ambitious than a dig at Billy Graham: it\u2019s a dig at God. Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics left out the \u201cUnder God\u201d from the sign to demonstrate that they too can be patriots in a nation under \u2013 nothing at all.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why they would think anyone cares, but the eagerness to demonstrate self-worth seems indicative of a deep seated self-doubting insecurity, thriving in spite of its obvious evolutionary disadvantage; perhaps God put it there.<\/p>\n

Atheist billboard on Billy Graham Parkway<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An atheist billboard along Billy Graham Parkway?<\/p>\n

Yep, there it is – “One Nation Indivisible,” with the “under God” left out – high atop the parkway, near Boyer Street.<\/p>\n

But “no, no, no,” it wasn’t intended as a slap at the world’s most famous evangelist, said a spokesman for Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics.<\/p>\n

“It just kind of happened that way,” said William Warren, a spokesman for the group, which is part of a statewide coalition of nonbelievers that is placing the same billboard in five other cities.<\/p>\n

It supposedly is not a dig at Billy Graham \u2013 it\u2019s a dig at God: Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics left out the \u201cUnder God\u201d from the sign to demonstrate that they too can be patriots in a nation under \u2013 nothing at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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