The "God is" billboard that repaced an atheist one outside the Lincoln Tunnel, had been vandalized

I would have thought a nihilist wouldn't care enough to vandalize anything.

 


Last December, an American Atheist billboard outside the NY/NJ Lincoln Tunnel made headlines with a message implying that the Christmas story was a myth. When it came down, it was replaced by the Manhattan-based Times Square Church billboard with the theme "God is..." and that was news too. Now there's more news about this billboard and it's not the kind I'm happy to report on.

Sometime over the weekend someone vandalized the church's billboard. The original message was "God is..." in bold letters together with a variety of sentence endings in lighter print such as "good", "alive", "Jesus", etc. But some anonymous vandal has spray-painted on another ending: "dead."

 

More here.

 

"God is Dead"

 

 

Tags: atheism, nihilism, vandalism

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Permalink Reply by funk Q on January 10, 2011 at 7:06pm

Rats!

Permalink Reply by FreeThinker on January 10, 2011 at 7:29pm

Vandalism is not a good way to get people to understand your viewpoint.

Permalink Reply by lana straw on January 10, 2011 at 7:59pm
Appeasement and submission work for me.
Permalink Reply by Lorryslorrys on January 11, 2011 at 3:24pm

It's pretty funny though.

And it's not the worst thing people have done, after all:

"God is dead ... And we have killed him"

Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on January 11, 2011 at 8:25pm
Some atheists have seen persecution when atheist billboards were defaced. I just thought come on, it's not the first time a billboard was ever defaced, and it happens to theists lots of times too.
Permalink Reply by Yusuf Said on January 11, 2011 at 9:29am
Why do I get the feeling if that billboard was about atheism the Christians would have set it on fire?
Permalink Reply by Secular Forces 2013 on January 11, 2011 at 7:41pm

yikes, drunk zombie?

surprised folks don't complain about having to see the same thing they saw sunday glaring at them all the time like all the time all the channels up and down from 375 directv sat... vomit

 

G'dole billboard real estate broker lamar, what a guy!

snooarrrr

Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on January 11, 2011 at 9:57pm
This isn't a very good billboard either. Billboards need to have an effective message that can be read quickly while people drive by. This looks more like it should be a greeting card.
Permalink Reply by Lorryslorrys on January 23, 2011 at 2:34pm
They used word-art for christs sake!
Permalink Reply by Steve on January 15, 2011 at 4:43pm
I liked Stephen Colberts joke about the distraction of the opposing bill boards that prompted the port authority to put up its own bill board that said " Jesus Christ! Watch where you're driving!"
Permalink Reply by Michelle on January 16, 2011 at 10:55am
If they did everyone not named Jesus Christ would think it was an excuse not to watch where they were driving.
Permalink Reply by Gary C. on January 26, 2011 at 3:33am

Vandalism is not acceptable. 

 

A pretty substantial percentage of atheist billboards that get put up end up getting vandalized, most likely by fundamentalist Christians who aren't tolerant of other people's beliefs.  We as atheists are supposed to show that not only are we more intelligent then Christians but that we are also morally superior to them and more tolerant of other people's beliefs.  Vandalizing a religious billboard is not the way to do that. 

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