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Sheep Need Not ApplyIn the US there is this Adopt A Highway program in which groups and organizations can sponsor a section of the highway, donating money in order to help pay for its good repair and than they get a sign by the side of the road that says "The section of the highway sponsored by such and such"
Apparently one of these signs has stirred up quite the controversy, as hard as that might be to believe. But well there was one of these signs up which said "Sponsored by Atheists and Other Freethinkers" and some people claim that the sign is meant to be a slight against religion, and that it is suggesting that people who are religious are not freethinkers. But personally I really do not think this sign is making any sort of anti-religion statement at all, I do not think it is about religion. The way I see it, it is one of those things were if you are offended by it, it is because it does apply to you. If someone sees this sign and is offended by it, it is because they know they really are not free thinkers or that they belong to an organization that does not support free thinking, and they just do not want to accept or acknowledge that truth. A true Atheists would not agree with or support my beliefs any more than they would that of anyone else, but I know that even though I hold a certain faith I am also a free thinker, so I do not find that this sign is insulting to me in anyway, and I am not offended by it or find anything insulting by it, though I am a spiritual-religious person. And there was one other person that called into the radio station where I first heard about the story supporting what I said. He said that he was a Christian but he also knew he was a free thinker, and so he really did not find that the sign was anti-religious, because it did not apply to him. So I think that anyone who comes forward against this sign, is just admitting that indeed they are not free thinkers. And the guy hosting the radio show was really adamant that the sign was a slight against all religion and was a claim that all religious people are not free thinkers like they are. And so I could not help but to wonder, what that said about him. I think trying to say that the sign is against religion in general is just a way for people to veil the fact that actually the sign is really only a slight against them personally.
8:30 AM - 7/1/2008 - post comment
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