In my recent post about the latest big round of billboards promoting atheism, my blog-buddy Adam Gaffin pointed out that the campaign was also active here in the Boston area.
And this is how the Christians responded:
(via The Friendly Atheist)
But it could have been worse. In Cincinnati, the billboard company who sold space to the Cinncinnati CoR group was forced to move the sign to a different location because they were receiving death threats. As luck would have it, though, the billboard was moved to a more prominent location, so the threats sort of backfired in terms of shouting down the message.
The Friendly Atheist also recently had this post with a collection of most of the different public message campaigns that have occurred in the past year, beginning with the now-famous bus ads in the U.K. Meanwhile, this site has been collecting some of the “rebuttals” from Christian groups like these charmers:
Can you feel the love?
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