Hebrew Atheist Billboard Finds a New Home

[Tank]

Hebrew Atheist Billboard Finds a New Home

This morning, the future of the Hebrew billboard reaching out to closeted atheists in the Orthodox Jewish community was uncertain, but it looks like American Atheists found a home for it...

...The atheists had to settle for placing the billboard above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near Meeker Avenue — about a mile and a half north of the Hasidic enclave in South Williamsburg...

Militant atheism at its most militant! Let's put up a sign!

[Ali]

Hebrew Atheist Billboard Finds a New Home

This morning, the future of the Hebrew billboard reaching out to closeted atheists in the Orthodox Jewish community was uncertain, but it looks like American Atheists found a home for it...

...The atheists had to settle for placing the billboard above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near Meeker Avenue — about a mile and a half north of the Hasidic enclave in South Williamsburg...

Militant atheism at its most militant! Let's put up a sign!

*snerk*

We're such a threat, aren't we? 

[Buddy]

Hebrew Atheist Billboard Finds a New Home

This morning, the future of the Hebrew billboard reaching out to closeted atheists in the Orthodox Jewish community was uncertain, but it looks like American Atheists found a home for it...

...The atheists had to settle for placing the billboard above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near Meeker Avenue — about a mile and a half north of the Hasidic enclave in South Williamsburg...

Militant atheism at its most militant! Let's put up a sign!

*snerk*

We're such a threat, aren't we? 

I know! Soon we'll be getting commercials to spread our filthy nazi communist ways.

[philosoraptor]

This is pretty daring, considering freedom of speech is only for old white dudes and Christians.

[DeterminedJuliet]

I just find it weird that they called it "inappropriate". Offensive? Maybe. Inappropriate? It's a billboard on the highway! It has words on it! How is that inappropriate?

People should learn the difference between "I don't like this" or "I find this offensive" and "this is actually inappropriate based on context".

[OldGit]

Well, the Jews are being specifically included in, here - but for some reason they don't like it. 

[Firebird]

Funny enough, the billboard in Arabic that went up in Patterson, New Jersey got a few people grumbling, but no campaign to tear it down or move it.

[Tank]

Funny enough, the billboard in Arabic that went up in Patterson, New Jersey got a few people grumbling, but no campaign to tear it down or move it.

Was it a similar atheist message?

[Firebird]

Same exact message:

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/01/atheist-group-targets-muslims-jews-with-myth-billboards-in-arabic-and-hebrew/

[Tank]

Same exact message:

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/01/atheist-group-targets-muslims-jews-with-myth-billboards-in-arabic-and-hebrew/

Cheers.

[Sweetdeath]

Don't mess with the jews. They pull the holocaust card as much as the blacks do with the slave one. 

I like the billboard. So many jewish friends are religious because they were raised they way, and even if they aren't hard core, they feel they'll 'betray' their family if they don't do religious things, like being kosher, etc.

[Asmodean]

Militant atheism at its most militant! Let's put up a sign!

No, the most militant is confronting the religious in live media debates.

...That, or launching a swarm of Asmothralls at them.

[history_geek]

Militant atheism at its most militant! Let's put up a sign!

No, the most militant is confronting the religious in live media debates.

...That, or launching a swarm of Asmothralls at them.

I think the most violent act of militant atheism is the verbal abuse of fables and myths people want/think/are forced to believe.... although Asmothralls is always a good back-up plan.

[Too Few Lions]

it's a nice poster, it would certainly make me smile every time I saw it if I lived in Brooklyn

[philosoraptor]

Don't mess with the jews. They pull the holocaust card as much as the blacks do with the slave one. 

Except Holocaust survivors, in some cases, are still living in today's society.  And remarkably, having two Jewish best friends neither one of them has ever brought up the Holocaust in a 'woe is me' context.  As it is though, this is another racially insensitive non-sequitor from you.  Quelle Surprise! 

Exactly how many times does someone need to tread the line between stating an opinion and acting like a bigot before a mod steps in to say that this kind of hateful speech is not okay?