Good Without God? Shut Your Pie Hole!

Last updated on: December 18, 2010 at 4:44 pm by Jeffrey L. Falick

Good Without God? Shut Your Pie Hole! 2010-12-18T16:44:00-05:00 Jeffrey L. Falick

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What is so horrifying to Christians about the simple message that “Millions of people are good without God?” For the answer to that you would have to ask the angry Christians in Ft. Worth, Texas, who boycotted public buses carrying the message. Or the ones who hired an advertising van to follow the buses around with their pro-Christian message.

The ads, with their innocuously true assertion that, yes indeedy, some folks are good without God, were placed by the local branch of the United Coalition of Reason (CoR). That’s the group I’m helping to set up here in South Florida.

It’s especially disappointing that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was one of the loudest groups in opposition to the ads. I don’t think that’s what MLK Jr. had in mind when he founded it. Kyev Tatum Sr. is their local president:

“It’s a season to share good will toward all men,” Mr. Tatum said. “To have this at this time come out with a blatant disrespect of our faith, we think is unconscionable.”

Where is his good will? And more to the point, how is this “blatant disrespect” of his faith? What about our beliefs? Why is it that such a harmless expression of our convictions is so appalling to them? There’s hardly a street in this whole country without a church bearing some kind of exhortation to love Jesus.

So now the Ft. Worth transit people have banned any religious or atheist advertising. Can you blame them when they have to deal with this amount of crazy? Those poor bus drivers sure don’t need the extra safety hazard of being tailgated by religious fanatics.

For the Ft. Worth CoR, the controversy bought them a ton of attention for a pretty minimal investment. I wonder what the reaction will be when we start putting up ads in South Florida?

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