During his Fox News show on Tuesday night, right-wing pundit Sean Hannity attacked a new ad campaign soon to be appearing in New York City subway stations that raises awareness about atheism. The ad, sponsored by The Big Apple Coalition of Reason, reads: “A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are you?”
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Sensing an opportunity to exploit the ads for political benefit, Hannity told his audience that a Christian group could never get away with airing ads like that:“Can you imagine the outrage if a Christian group put pro-God ads in the New York City subways? What outrage”.
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But as Subway Sights — a blog about the NYC subway system — explains, “The problem with this thinking is that Christians have been putting up pro-Christianity ads in the subway for years and nobody cares.” The blogger continues, “There are ads for all kinds of competing churches, each offering their own flavor of Christianity and their own path to salvation,” and offers this photograph as evidence.
What outrage indeed Sean! Imagine if you actually knew what you were talking about! Imagine if you didn’t actually TRY to flame intolerance against atheists and instead attempted to support our right to free speech! Imagine the outrage among Christians if you APOLOGIZED for saying something WRONG!
But that will never happen, will it Sean?
It’s fairly common for stupid people to say stupid things.
Hannity and his ilk certainly appeal to the stupid and/or uneducated. As for Hannity, I think he’s thinking about ratings and the increase he’ll ask for in his next contract with Faux News.
I see anti-abortion ads in subway tunnels and buses all the time.
Actually the NYC subway system has a history of running ads for religious groups and most atheists just roll their eyes and continue on with life when they see these. Why are religious folks so threatened by a nonconfrontational ad such as the ones now supporting atheism? If I were faithful I think my faith would be stronger than a subway ad.
OT
More religiously motivated black homophobia from yesterday:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RightWingWatchdotorg#p/u/4/iGWQa_T6W_0
http://www.youtube.com/user/RightWingWatchdotorg#p/u/3/tOlnU3vgJ9Q
Nothing brings together black xians and muslims like their mutual hate for gay people.
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2009/10/26/Chiefs_Star_in_Hot_Water_Over_Homophobic_Tweets/
they dont understand lateral oppression godless…..how can blacks follow a white cult that enslaved them is beyond me….
Or how can a member of any oppressed minority be themselves bigots such as, oh, I dunno, a gay person being virulently bigoted against black people, just to pull an example out of thin air.
The pot got stirred in Utah today. Pissed off a bunch of Mormons for sure but they can deny all they want – this shit still goes on!
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-it-with-mormon-men.html
Par for the course, nobody pays attention to the Talking Heads except the cheerleaders.