Religious Billboard causes Uproar.

Billboard urges questioning of religion

I find it pretty funny that you can travel across the nation and read billboards from religious churches that tell you to turn to God, and that Jesus will save you, and all of that good stuff, but god forbid someone dare put up a sign asking you to question your religion. It is hypocrisy if you ask me, if some religious person is offended by this sign, because he's content with his own sign pushing his own beliefs. If he wants to put a sign in front of his church fine, but don't turn around and get upset about a sign that may be contrary to what you believe. These people seem to think that freedom of speech means "freedom for me to speak my mind and then try to censor the opposition."

I think this is a great sign. It tells people to take a close look at their religion and be sure that they're doing the right thing with it. And honestly, if the sign converts you to agnosticism or athiesm, you had no faith to begin with.

One commenter stated "but with no religion, there are no morals." This is false. There are hundreds of religions, most which seem to share some moral code. These religions are geographically diverse and some are even hard to reach. This tells me that moral codes are a part of being human, and is often woven through religion, but not created by religion. And what kind of warped moral thought is it, when one is only being good to avoid divine retribution? No. I want people to be moral out of their own being, not because God tells them to.

In other news, I found this interesting picture floating around the interwebs:

Other than the F bomb, I really don't understand the complaints that it gets.

First of all, it is just a humorous depiction of something that Jesus didn't do. The absurdity alone is what makes it funny.

But then, one could argue that there is a deeper meaning. Just think, Jesus was the Son of God. What if he did say "Screw your sins, I'm getting outta here?" He could have. He could have easily just ripped himself off the cross, smote down the romans and left.

But he didn't.

So this image simply reminds a Christian what Jesus did not do, and that was, Jesus did not take the cowards way out.

So instead of being offended by this image, look at it and be grateful.

People need to lighten up. That's part of the problem with religion. Most of the religious people are so uptight that they can't take a joke.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein


J Kuhl Signing Off