Imagine no religion

December 10, 2007 at 4:53 pm

WTNH Channel 8 from Connecticut is reporting that a sign posted by an atheist is sparking a controversy. Apparently someone made a sign that says “IMAGINE NO RELIGION” along with a picture of the twin towers that once stood in New York City, implying that mere existence of religion was the direct cause of 9/11.

Yeah, because world without Christianity would be so much better.

We won’t have music like Messiah, nor paintings of Sistine Chapel. Because we don’t need the modern university system that Christians started, nor the idea that every one should be educated not just the rich and powerful.

Because it wasn’t the Protestants who found this country and constitution had nothing to do with the Bible. Also, we don’t need the people like Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. who fought so hard for civil rights and who cares about President Lincoln who prayed and prayed to keep this country from falling apart.

We are so sure that without religion, we wouldn’t know how to hate, kill, destroy, start a war, or sin.

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One commenter on this news summarized the absurdity of this poster very nicely:

I think it should be a picture of the twin towers, and the slogan should be “Imagine a world without airplanes.” Take that, aerospace engineers. [link]

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