The War on Easter
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Report from the frontlines...
Brian Flemming, director of the documentary "The God Who Wasn't There," in conjunction with the Rational Response Squad, has launched the first assault against Christianity in the War on Easter.
From the press release:
Hollywood -- April 11, 2006. Declaring War on Easter, Beyond Belief Media has launched a preemptive attack on the Christian holiday, the company announced today. "Operation Easter Sanity" has already begun.Onward Atheist Soldiers!
Using its documentary THE GOD WHO WASN'T THERE as the chief weapon, Beyond Belief Media is covertly planting DVDs of the film in churches throughout the United States. The popular movie, currently ranked #1 on Amazon.com's independent documentaries list, is critical of the irrational beliefs of Christians and asserts that Jesus Christ did not exist.
A total of 666 DVDs will be hidden like "Easter eggs" in sanctuaries, church yards and other holy areas by Beyond Belief Media's national team of volunteers. The DVDs will be slipped into hymnals and other locations where they are likely to be discovered by unsuspecting worshippers.
Flyers explaining the will be planted by undercover operatives among actual Easter eggs at churches holding egg hunts on Easter Sunday.
"People go to churches to hide from the truth," explained Beyond Belief Media president Brian Flemming, a former Christian fundamentalist. "At no time is this more apparent than Easter, when Christians get together to convince each other that a man died, stayed dead three days, rose from the dead and then flew into the air above the clouds.
"Our nonviolent campaign sends the message that nowhere in the country is safe from the truth. Wherever Christian leaders are indoctrinating children with 2000-year-old fairy tales, the truth may just find its way there.
"Our 'War on Easter' is of course completely without violence of any kind. Christians believe that beating a man to a pulp and nailing him to a cross somehow solves all the world's problems. Beyond Belief Media does not."
More details as well as "battle reports" from field operatives are available at: http://www.waroneaster.org
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Fuck yea!!!!!!!
Your War on Easter link isn't working.
Yeah, it appears that the website is down. But don't let that stop the battle!
Beyond Belief Media is the new Justice League, with superheroes who fight againt the tyranny of that infamous dynamic duo, Colonel God and Captain Jesus.
Go team!
Yea, and their chocolate bunnies shall fall before us!
And Steve? That's the "Triumverate of Terror(r)."
General Deity, Captain Christ, and Sargent Spook!
A fine idea, but I can't dislike a holiday after which chocolate becomes available for lowered prices.
Just to let everyone know, the website is back and running.
Pavielle-
Surely you don't think Jesus was advocating Christians to waste their time, money, and effort when he told this story:
And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, "Behold, the sower went out to sow; and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up. Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil. But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out. And others fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear."
The point of this exercise is to get Christians to ask questions that they otherwise wouldn't ask. I don't think anyone is entertaining the notion that each DVD watched equals another deconverted Christian. The best-case scenario is for someone like you to watch the DVD, realize that there are some unanswered questions about Christianity, do some research to find out that in fact Christianity was not divinely inspired, and then visit us here at GTA to learn how Christianity is immoral. If you still want to cling to Christianity at that point, fine, as long as you don't harbor any illusions that you're accepting Christianity either because of historical veracity or moral superiority.
By the way, if you haven't actually seen the movie, contact me by email and I'll be happy to send a copy out your way.
Pavielle-
*sigh*
Don't humor yourself, really. When you say something like, "I wouldn't care if there was somehow 100% proof against Christianity," you've admitted that you're not dealing from a position of rationality or morality. Do you still believe in Santa Claus? I'd guess that believing in him is more fun than not, so does that mean you should still believe in him even though you know he doesn't exist? Arguments from effect just don't work.
Rape, killing, etc.- it's all immoral, of course. The only difference is, I can give a justification for why it's immoral based on objective facts, and you can't. The best you can do is say, "God says so." That's purely arbitrary and subjective. The commands of Christianity may coincide with morality, but they almost never give justification for it.
Let me ask you this: what does the Bible say we should do with homosexuals? I'll give you a hint: it involves lots of big hard objects, thrown at a high velocity. Now tell me that any book that could advocate something like that is a paragon of morality- talk about disgusting!
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