You should know by know how hateful

• Obama raised as practicing Muslim - see link - me
  • Obama/muslim - gourdpainter
    • You're right - the whole SP thing is the 'pubicans - Perplexed
  • So what? I know people that were raised as practicing - - !
    • Thank you for the laugh. LOL - mae
  • Over and over, this has been debunked - Terri
  • Read his autobiography - L
    • Right - see message - me
  • I prefer Muslims to Christians! - Jewish MT
    • Our "Small But Mighty" Ally - Go Little Israel
    • I'm with you on that. One of the reasons I'm glad I'm not Christian - me
      • You must get saved! Now! (J/K) - christianMT
      • I'm a pagan - I guess that'll really freak 'em out, huh? - I celebrate Solstice, not hypocracy.
        • Right on - see inside - me
          • Me, too. -sm - Solstice
    • Thank you - Intolerance is the worst religion of all - sm
    • There are many Muslim-Americans who are citizens of the US. (nm) - Jewish MT
      • Oops...should be see message not (nm) - Jewish MT
  • Please stop smoking that stuff... - sm
    • I guess you don't like to face the facts - me
      • HE DOESN'T HAVE A BROTHER! - sm
        • He DOES have a half-brother living in Kenya - lives in a slum with no help from O!! nm
        • Don't insinuate I'm stupid - your the one who won't face facts - me
          • No one's insinuating anything. In your words, - facts are facts. sm
            • No, those were your words - see message - me
              • I hope you got some rest. - You didn't realize you were talking to sm
        • Yes he does - L
      • People like you make me ashamed to call myself - American...or Christian. amfm
        • sorry to hear your ashamed of yourself - me
          • Fact is that people who tell this lie are, well... - Liars who like to elect each other. nm
          • 'People like you' are insecure little folks who - Truth Be Told
            • Now you're just plain rude. To try to belittle someone while spewing hatred. - me
              • You should know by know how hateful - some leftists are -stay positive :) nm
                • I know I'm learning real fast here - me
                • meant to say "know by NOW". See, now - they have ME upset!.. nm
            • What I said is what I mean. There is no - uglier side of America than this..sm
              • Sorry. This should be posted - Under the Nazi's post. nm
                • Which one? This board is positively crawling - with right-wing Nazis.
                  • you mean left-wing Nazi's - me
                    • Honey, no one trashes Palin for 'no reason' - there are - hundreds of reasons. nm
                    • How little do you know? Nazi's are racial purists - That's strictly right-wing territory. nm
                    • Hang in there. Don't let them run you off.... - sam
                      • Last-worditis, as usual. - nm
      • Raised by a Muslim father and Christian mother - Just like my own son. sm
      • First and foremost - I am an American - sm
    • Yes, let's change the subject, shall we? NOT - nm

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SEE BOTTOM OF MESSAGE FOR SIGN PIC FIRST.

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CNN) -- An atheist sign criticizing Christianity that was erected alongside a Nativity scene was taken from the Legislative Building in Olympia, Washington, on Friday and later found in a ditch.

An employee from country radio station KMPS-FM in Seattle told CNN the sign was dropped off at the station by someone who found it in a ditch. "I thought it would be safe," Freedom From Religion Foundation co-founder Annie Laurie Gaylor told CNN earlier Friday. "It's always a shock when your sign is censored or stolen or mutilated. It's not something you get used to." The sign, which celebrates the winter solstice, has had some residents and Christian organizations calling atheists Scrooges because they said it was attacking the celebration of Jesus Christ's birth.
"Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds," the sign from the Freedom From Religion Foundation says in part. The sign, which was at the Legislative Building at 6:30 a.m. PT, was gone by 7:30 a.m., Gaylor said. The incident will not stifle the group's message, Gaylor said. Before reports of the placard's recovery, she said a temporary sign with the same message would be placed in the building's Rotunda. Gaylor said a note would be attached saying, "Thou shalt not steal."

"I guess they don't follow their own commandments," Gaylor said. "There's nothing out there with the atheist point of view, and now there is such a firestorm that we have the audacity to exist. And then [whoever took the sign] stifles our speech."

Gaylor said that police are checking security cameras pointed at the building's entrances and exits to see if they can see anyone stealing the sign.
 
"It's probably about 50 pounds, " Gaylor said. "My brother-in-law was huffing and puffing carrying it up the stairs. It's definitely not something you can stick under your arm or conceal."

The Washington State Patrol, which is handling the incident, could not be reached for comment.

Dan Barker, a former evangelical preacher and co-founder of the group, said it was important for atheists to see their viewpoints validated alongside everyone else's.

Barker said the display is especially important given that 25 percent of Washington state residents are unaffiliated with religion or do not believe in God. (A recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found 23 percent of Washingtonians said they were unaffiliated with a religion and 7 percent said they didn't believe in God.)
"It's not that we are trying to coerce anyone; in a way our sign is a signal of protest," Barker said. "If there can be a Nativity scene saying that we are all going to he**ll if we don't bow down to Jesus, we should be at the table to share our views."

He said if anything, it's the Nativity scene that is the intrusion.

"Most people think December is for Christians and view our signs as an intrusion, when actually it's the other way around," he said. "People have been celebrating the winter solstice long before Christmas. We see Christianity as the intruder, trying to steal the holiday from all of us humans."

The scene in Washington state is not unfamiliar. Barker has had signs in Madison, Wisconsin, for 13 years. The placard is often turned around so the message can't be seen, and one year, someone threw acid on it, forcing the group to encase it in Plexiglas.

In Washington, D.C., the American Humanist Association began a bus ad campaign this month questioning belief in God.

"Why believe in a God?" the advertisement asks. "Just be good for goodness sake."

That ad has caused the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to field hundreds of complaints, the group said, but it has heard just as much positive feedback, said Fred Edwords, the association's spokesman.

Edwords said the ad campaign, which features a shrugging Santa Claus, was not meant to attack Christmas but rather to reach out to an untapped audience.

Edwords maintains the campaign began in December mostly because the group had extra money left over for the year. The connection to Christmas is a coincidence, he said.

"There are a lot of people out there who don't know there are organizations like ours to serve their needs," Edwords said. "The thing is, to reach a minority group, in order to be heard, everyone in the room has to hear you, even when they don't want to."

The ad campaign, Edwords said, is to make people think. He said he doesn't expect to "convert" anyone.
But the Christian Coalition of America is urging members to oppose the advertisements.

"Although a number of humanists and atheists continue to attempt to rid God and Christmas from the public square, the American people are overwhelmingly opposed to such efforts," Roberta Combs, the group's president said in a press release.

"We will ask our millions of supporters to call the city of Washington, D.C., and Congress to stop this un-Godly campaign."

As far as the criticism goes, Edwords said there are far more controversial placards in Washington.
"That's D.C. -- this is a political center," he said. "If I can see a placard with dead fetuses on it, I think someone can look at our question and just think about it."

The anger over the display in Olympia began after it was assembled Monday. The sentiment grew after some national media personalities called upon viewers to flood the phone lines of the governor's office.

The governor's office told The Seattle Times it received more than 200 calls an hour afterward.

"I happen to be a Christian, and I don't agree with the display that is up there," Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire told The Olympian newspaper. "But that doesn't mean that as governor, I have the right to deny their ability to express their free speech."

For some, the issue isn't even that the atheists are putting their thoughts on display, but rather the way in which they are doing it.

"They are shooting themselves in the foot," said iReport contributor Rich Phillips, who describes himself as an atheist. "Everyone's out there for the holidays, trying to represent their religion, their beliefs, and it's a time to be positive."
The atheist message was never intended to attack anyone, Barker said.

"When people ask us, 'Why are you hateful? Why are you putting up something critical of people's holidays? -- we respond that we kind of feel that the Christian message is the hate message," he said. "On that Nativity scene, there is this threat of internal violence if we don't submit to that master. Hate speech goes both ways."

As a Christian, I personally find it offensive, hateful, rude and totally unnessary.

Hateful because it implies that the atheists or whoever wrote the sign has the handle on "good," as in "just be good for goodness sake."  Rude because it implies that people who believe in God are not as smart as they are.  Totally UNNECESSARY.  No one forces anyone to believe in God and you have NO right to try to ram your nonbelief down my throat.  If you want to put a Hannakuh or however you spell it, tree or whatever next to the Nativity scene, fine, that is not offensive.  OTH atheists believe in  nothing so what the heck are they protesting?  Do they also protest every commercian Santa Claus becaue "THEY" don't believe in Santa Claus?  This  politically correct cr*p has gotten completely out of hand.

As a Christian, I personally find it offensive, hateful, rude and totally unnessary.

Hateful because it implies that the atheists or whoever wrote the sign has the handle on "good," as in "just be good for goodness sake."  Rude because it implies that people who believe in God are not as smart as they are.  Totally UNNECESSARY.  No one forces anyone to believe in God and you have NO right to try to ram your nonbelief down my throat.  If you want to put a Hannakuh or however you spell it, tree or whatever next to the Nativity scene, fine, that is not offensive.  OTH atheists believe in  nothing so what the heck are they protesting?  Do they also protest every commercian Santa Claus becaue "THEY" don't believe in Santa Claus?  This  politically correct cr*p has gotten completely out of hand.

You must be kidding.

Problems that dems have:

8 years of failed economic and foreign policy, a president who ignored the warnings for 9/11 as well as warnings of an economic meltdown, thousands of unnecessary deaths because of a cowboy mentality, war crimes instituted by the highest offices in the US, civil liberties taken away, right of privacy taken away, a barrage of last minute policies that negatively impact the environment, social well-being, and who knows what else.  And this is just the tip of the iceburg.  We are still paying for all of these actions, not only financially as well as with our country's reputation, but most importantly with lives. 

Problems that pubs have:

Obama is the President-Elect and you guys are worried because of rumors about what he MIGHT do.

HMMMMMM.....

You're right - due to the slimy, lying, underhanded tactics of the administration and your boy, Bush, the Swift Boat fiasco with Kerry may  have had an impact on the election.  You sound like you're proud of that.  Figures.

Why can't you folks just leave Sheehan alone.  Why can't someone be anti-war and speak their mind without you guys going nuts?