Monday, December 7, 2009

For Goodness Sake

Remember the other day when I said some things about presidents and atheists. I take it all back. And who do we have to thank for this enlightenment?


Well, the babe and some atheist friends but also our dear friends at fox "news". I would hate hate hate for anyone ever to confuse me with Bill O'Reilly and these "news"casters.


Remember the other day when I said some things about presidents and atheists. I take it all back. And who do we have to thank for this enlightenment?


Well, the babe and some atheist friends but also our dear friends at fox "news". I would hate hate hate for anyone ever to confuse me with Bill O'Reilly and these "news"casters.









The babe and I sat through this ridiculous segment completely mesmerized. That's a lie. The babe was laughing sort of incredulously, and I was screaming - just AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! because there seemed no other appropriate thing to do under the cirumstances.



Let's get a closer look at the infamous ad.



Scandalous, I know.



But seriously. When the Christian Right (read Wrong) is creating websites to berate retailers who don't sell nativities or wish you "Merry Christmas", then can they really blame the Humanists for trying to advertise for their cause. Who's attacking who here?



And what exactly is so awful about the idea that a person could be good with a belief in God? Do these people want to do away with anyone who's a good person but doesn't believe in God? Yep, I bet so.



And also - did they not notice that these people are wearing CHRISTMAS HATS?! Hello, they do not hate Christmas. They want to celebrate it as the secular holiday that it has become. They are not attacking you. They are not trying to take away your right to celebrate your own sacred version of that holiday (does this sound familiar?). They're just trying to say that people who don't believe in God can be good people too - even at Christmas.



I, for one, love the ads.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The best part about the "news" segment is the very first thing Mr. O'Reilly says- "anti-God ads like this one." It's not anti-God. It's just lack of God. I bet ol' Bill doesn't know the difference between immoral and amoral, either.

the babe said...

What gets me about this segment (and many others i've seen just like it) is that they don't make sense. It's like they take two words--atheist and christmas in this case--and just start free associating: ooh, atheists, they hate christmas. ooh, ooh and they hate god too!

In the end it's just sheer stupidity. have they run out of things to talk about? i think describing them as news casters, even with quotes around the news part gives them too much credit.

T said...

I have a couple favorite parts of this clip: 1) when he can't tell the women apart (she seems angry, right?) and 2) when the younger blond woman uses the word attack, like, 7 times ("they could have attacked any of the other 11 months of the year, but no, they're attacking now!"). How can they even interpret this as an "attack"?! Sounds like they're looking for yet another war... But this time we have a president on the side of rational thought (and inclusiveness). Have you heard how Fox is roasting President Obama for making sure the White House cards say "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Christmas"? Oi.

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