A “Godless” billboard was put up in Cincinnati just this past Tuesday and has now been taken down after the landowner received threats due to the atheist sign. Thus proving how senseless people are.
In the wake of multiple, significant threats, the downtown billboard that says “Don’t Believe In God? You are not alone” came down early Thursday morning. The billboard had gone up Tuesday afternoon at Reading Road and 12th Street, one block south of Liberty Street and it is being moved to a new site Thursday at the Sixth Street Viaduct. The group that funded the billboard, the United Coalition of Reason, was contacted by Lamar Advertising of Cincinnati. Lamar reported that the landowner of the site had been threatened over the billboard’s message and wanted it taken down.
“We weren’t given the landowner’s identity or precise details,” reported Fred Edwords, national director of the United Coalition of Reason. “Nor did we pursue them. It was sufficient to learn that multiple, significant threats had been received and that Lamar would act quickly to alleviate the problem. Lamar was most apologetic to us regarding the situation. It was a development they hadn’t expected. Nor had we. Nothing like this has ever happened to us before.”
“Everything that has happened shows just how vital our message is,” said Shawn Jeffers, co-coordinator for the Cincinnati Coalition of Reason. “It proves our point, that bigotry against people who don’t believe in a god is still very real in America. Only when we atheists, agnostics and humanists come together and go public about our views will people have a chance to learn that we too are part of the community and deserve respect.”
The new location on the 6th Street Expressway, U.S. Highway 50, is owned by Lamar and therefore isn’t subject to landowner restrictions. The billboard will face east, visible on the left to traffic traveling west out of the city across the viaduct toward the suburbs of Delhi and Price Hill.
A few billboards questioning the existence of God is wrong but hundreds of billboards with anti-abortion photos are ok, right? Open your minds people, there’s something called equality.
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November 14th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
As an atheist, I can say this: I don’t want a similarly absurd reward such as “equality”. What I DO want is a culture that lives up to the standards assumed in the notion of “civilization” and I want accurate observation and logically-consistent reason to rule the minds of human beings. I want a culture that truly respects the liberty of the individual to exercise their personal sovereignty. I want a culture that respects a man’s need to respectfully and peacefully voice his views. I want a rational culture that responds to irrationality immediately wherever it is found and humanely assists those afflicted with it.
I want a life and a community that makes good sense.