I understand when someone is moving a goalpost. Now try applying those to what I'm actually saying. To help out (you started it) those were illustrations of valuation and preference.
Do you think those effect how you treat people?
Since I'm not arguing for tearing down the billboard or against the right of anyone to put whatever they want up whenever they want to, to go to the DMV in a prom dress or pick their toes in public, only commenting on how I value it, what is your objection?
My objection is you find an Atheist outreach billboard directed at other Atheists as tasteless and on par with picking toes in public.
It can't be that you insist I think like you, can it?
No, just allow for others thinking.
I prefer people who think what they like but can meet difference amiably and, God willing, interestingly and hold reasoned positions with good humor.
I guess I'm not finding the humor in being excluded from the entire month of December as far as reaching out to other Atheists.
Since I started this I've been subjected to neg reps, suggestions that I'm stupid or evasive and a litany of likened nonsense I'd have expected from fundamentalists but not from my former cadre, whom I perhaps have projected onto a rationality and willingness to consider that is no more generally evident. Ah, well. That's life for you.
People are work, the more you care about someone the harder you work at it.
People rarely suggest I'm stupid because I set that as the base line so it has no teeth. But I'm nobody's punching bag and if anyone suggests I should sit down and shut up for a month because it offends their taste then they can count on me standing up taller and louder.
And I prefer people who don't calculatedly trade on the faith of others for their own gain, be they snake oil pastors or this group of atheists.
I guess we have to agree to disagree then, me being an Atheists and gathering with the like minded doesn't impinge upon your celebration anymore than gay marriage impinges on straight marriage.
There's an important point there.
Now we're finding common ground. How are you about good coffee, or beer?
Coffee from dawn till noon, beer from five till midnight.
I may have drank a glass of water once but I don't recall to clearly.
What I find tasteless in this particular is. And how I relate to things is, which is why I made note. Doesn't mean I lack compassion for those who struggle in ways I don't. I have my own. But the personalization about atheists was mostly an approach to the notion of the thing being launched for a mostly altruistic purpose, which I though and think is pure hooey.
Then you're simply discounting the possibility that it could.
What if I took every Christian outreach as an attempt to trade on my lack of faith?
Is every cross a tasteless reproach of Judaism?
And coincidentally you agree with her.... But she doesn't make more sense than the first person who suggested it and I think she dismisses my examination without much consideration of its parts. I answered on the couple she did look at.
And she answered your answers.
For a number of reasons, beginning with the lack of cause of action. Or, where's that billboard posted in a mostly black neighborhood (to keep the majority/exposure) set to run on MLK, Jr, day by the Daughters of the Confederacy?
Moving goal posts? Is the whole world a "Christian Neighborhood" that we should tip toe around? You've already claimed December as a holy month.
How is MLK day not an African American holiday and how is Robert E Lee day not an antithesis of that?