In response to the American Atheists’ billboards “Shame on Mormonism,” I suggest the LDS (or anyone else, frankly) counter with one or more of these. The guys over at Salvo Mag may want to rev up their Photoshop.
Shame on Atheism
Shame on Atheism
Shame on Atheism
Shame on Atheism
Shame on Atheism
Shame on Atheism
Shame on Atheism
Shame on Agnosticism Too
Jerry
October 23, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Thank you, sir. Yes, as Lars Walker put it on FB, “I’m not sure this is a game they really want to play.”
Tim Etherington
October 23, 2012 at 6:13 PM
Why not throw in Anders Brevik and add “Shame on Paganism”
Anthony Sacramone
October 23, 2012 at 6:50 PM
In that regard, I could throw in the entire Nazi Party.
Al
October 24, 2012 at 7:41 PM
Junk! These are really not the same thing, at all. The Morman church, an organisation specifically defined by its Mormanism, had a policy of excluding black people (Until 1978! OMG that is disgusting!!). This is in contrast to Communist Atheists, who are generally more defined by their ideology, with Atheism being a consequence of this ideology. They did evil things to propagate communism, not Atheism. I wouldn’t go down the route of looking at individuals either (again not the same). It’s easy to play that game against all religions, as there are very few individual Atheists in history.
Anthony Sacramone
October 24, 2012 at 8:10 PM
Communism demands atheism, as it is purely deterministic, whether economic, historical, or both. There can be no higher superintending agency (unless you count the Party). There can be no allegiance greater than that to the party, and to the state. Fascism was merely socialism that bent nationalist: “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” There is no room for God in that system as a system.
Not all atheists are communists or fascists or environmentalist wackjobs, obviously. But communism and fascism are at the core atheistic, because both are materialistic and absolute. And atheism provides a reductionist view of life that makes eliminating the obstacles to one’s view of the good life easier to justify. Nature is red in tooth and claw. It doesn’t know from the inviolability of the individual human life. The strong survive; the weak get a lawyer if they can.
The larger point is to force organized Atheism to think twice about its own history before it plays this stupid “gotcha” game. “Take the plank out of your own eye first.”
Not a quote from an atheist, BTW.