All Religions are Fairy Tales

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If it's printed on a highway billboard, it must be true, right?

Apparently, enough Floridians think so that it caused a 66% drop in sales at a nearby eatery...and the publication of the original news report by local station WFTV 9 has stirred such furor that it's been taken down from their site.

Silly Luddites...don't they know that the interwebs were designed by the architects of the Hotel California?



ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - It looked harmless enough, but the words on a billboard un-nerved so many people that a popular restaurant nearby actually lost business.

The billboard was on Colonial Drive near the Old Cheney Highway. Although the popular Straub's Seafood restaurant often advertises on it, this wasn't their billboard.

The sign was taken down after Channel 9 started asking questions.

The billboard came down around 4:00 Friday afternoon and nearby business owners are relieved. Straub's restaurant can replace the sign with the night's specials.

At first glance the sign looked like a children's cartoon, but the message next to the fairy princess stirred emotions.

"When you condemn all religions and say they are a fairytale that is wrong," said Rich Stormes, a nearby business owner.

The billboard went up a week before Easter and business at the restaurant went down."Easter Sunday is usually a busy good day," said John Russel, an employee at Straub's. "Easter Sunday business was down by two thirds.

"Since it's so close, John Russel's customers thought the restaurant paid for the billboard. To clear any confusion up, Russel put up a sign of his own and called MediaNet, the company who owns the billboard.

"It's been causing us some problem. I think it's causing a bit of controversy city wide. People have been contacting the media," Russel added.

MediaNet said it had no idea the sign was there and someone put it up illegally in the middle of the night.

Nearby business owners said they weren't buying it.

"They should have known what was going up on the billboard. He should proof it. He had to proof it," Stormes stated.

The billboard rents for $1,400 a month. If an anti-religious group paid to rent it legitimately there is not telling how long it would have been up.

Orange County does not regulate messages on billboards. They are protected by free speech.
 

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I am personally offended by those billboards that were all over my area that had "pithy" one-liners in white courier font signed by "God." Those things were offensive, in my opinion, to both religious people and non-religious people. I thought they were presumptuous arrogant, and intrusive. I saw or heard of little furor over them. Here's a video that has parodies of them:

MySpaceTV Videos: Dueling Billboards by mario digiorgio

Those things pissed me off more than one billboard about religion being a fairy tale does.
 

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Some people in Florida are pretty angry at religion. They have a new religion problem as of a few days ago. A bill was passed called the "Intellectual Freedom" bill. It allows students and teachers to substitute religious beliefs for any actual truth that contradicts it.

For example, a student can say that the Earth is 6000 years old and pass geology, if his religious beliefs inform him to believe that.

Say goodbye to The Enlightenment, Florida. It was nice knowing ya.
 

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Sheesh...
and it was taken down why?

Someone paid for it to be there it has very right of being up there as those God billboards....

Oh... because it interfered with COMMERCE.

I guess its like valentines day, Santa and the Easter bunny....
Religion bent to the service of inciting folks to shop.




I wonder.... what if someone posted a huge billboard right near every major mall this coming December that said
"Jesus doesn't want you to buy stuff"...

would that stay up?
Or would the merchants force its removal?
 

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Some people in Florida are pretty angry at religion. They have a new religion problem as of a few days ago. A bill was passed called the "Intellectual Freedom" bill. It allows students and teachers to substitute religious beliefs for any actual truth that contradicts it.

For example, a student can say that the Earth is 6000 years old and pass geology, if his religious beliefs inform him to believe that.

Say goodbye to The Enlightenment, Florida. It was nice knowing ya.

OK JA - how long before we get a Floridian University based Religion that insists that you have to answer complete manure to any academic exam question - a little surrealistic penchant perhaps.

Q1. 2 + 2 = ?

A. Cock

Correct, 2 points.

I claim this religion as Dwoodyism. :wink:
 

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OK JA - how long before we get a Floridian University based Religion that insists that you have to answer complete manure to any academic exam question - a little surrealistic penchant perhaps.

Q1. 2 + 2 = ?

A. Cock

Correct, 2 points.

I claim this religion as Dwoodyism. :wink:

Yes, that is the exact problem with the "Intellectual Freedom" bill. Any wacko belief is acceptable as a student's response or as a teacher's subject matter as long as it is a religious belief.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is going to have a field day with this. All praise His Noodliness!!!
 

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Islam included
Uh, yeah, I think most everyone on this board is intelligent enough to understand the meaning of "all religions." I know that you are incapable of responding to any thread that touches on religion, without taking a sling at that one in particular, but come on... we do understand that the phrase "all religions" includes islam, as well as judaism & christianity and all others.