Gosh, seems like there are much more serious threats to children than grumpy Atheist goats with coffee mugs.
No idea where this flyer came from, but it’s sort of fascinating that it’s aimed at teaching children to identify “others” and report them. Feels a bit like a second rise of McCarthyism.*
*Editor’s note – we’re happy to learn that this is satire, as linked below in our comments. Very funny!
Satire? No I got this at my door in Arkansas. It might have been created as satire, but it’s not used as satire. People clearly believe this and put it in their religious handouts. And this attitude is exactly what you’ll get in the south.
Um, yeah…
It’s been awhile since I’ve called myself any kind of orthodox Christian, but I don’t see the point of sites like the one who made the flyer. Sites like that and Christwire are essentially straw man satire.
I’m not going to pull a No True Scotsman and say that there are no churches like that, but for, um, Pete’s sake there are a lot more sincere Christians who leave atheists alone than ones like this.
Well… there are a number of Christians that fall for the satire and are fully supportive of their work (Poe’s Law confirmed once again). There is plenty to ridicule in “moderate” Christianity as well, but poking at the extremes is so much easier.
Looking at the comments on Edward Currant’s YouTube videos, for example, it appears there are plenty of True Scotsmen who fall for these things.
not that I would advise reading YouTube comments unless you have a particularly high resistance to idiocy
How do you know that they’re sincere? Poe’s Law cuts both ways.
The minister at the church I sort-of still go to has no time for chiding atheists;she’s too busy preaching about how the minimum wage should be raised and how Pat Robertson was a schmuck for claiming Haiti deserved an earthquake (like I said, it’s been awhile since I’ve went)
Boy are the makers of that poster going to be angry when they figure out God doesn’t exist.
Atheist goats are buttheads!
Agreed. They don’t believe in hygiene, so they have smelly goat crotches.
Well this is satire but it just goes to show that the inability to think critically isn’t limited to Christians. Please. Leave those poor ignorant Christians alone.
Sometimes we shake our fists angrily and yell at you to get the heck off our lawns, only we use bad language that you will probably want to go tell your pastor about.
Good advice. We atheists are a scary bunch especially dressed in our bathrobes.
There’s not much worse than meeting an atheist wearing a bath robe and not having had his coffee yet.
Ah. Guys? That’s from a satire site. Same folks behind the LOL: Love Our Lord and I (cross) Jesus shirts.
Oh good to hear!
Then Kudos!