Its true… well, sorta. She made a BBC UK article about the Alabama Freethought Association.
Im more than a little transcendentally connected to the FFRF; my mother went to highschool with one of its founders and its homebase is not far from my family’s home town of Talladega (pronounced “talluh-digga” by its natives).
As i read the article, a smirk crossed my face as i got to this bit:
On June 25th, the FFRF’s first Alabama billboard – “Imagine No Religion” with a stained-glass border – appeared on Interstate 20 between Birmingham and Talladega, facing west. It would greet many of the people coming to Lake Hypatia. The first advertising company the FFRF hired backed out, but they found another.
“heh”, i thought, “i bet my ignorant, racist, bible-thumping brethren have seen that billboard!”
How right i was…
A letter to the editor in the Talladega paper, The Daily Home, indicated that the authors, Opal and Preston Stone, were offended by the sign, by a story about the sign, and by “self-called ‘Free Thinkers.’” “We, personally, would like to be FREE from those who have done all that they can do to suppress and denigrate our right to look forward to meeting our maker, when he is ready to call us home.”
My grandmother, who used to be a manager of the Daily Home, decided to voice her opposition to sanity, just as she has done so before, in the comments of my own blog. She learned that i was an atheist from reading my blog… and then decided to troll, threaten and flame me. here. and here. (she’s ‘cricket’… my supposed conscience)
This is leaving out the half a dozen or so e-mails that she sent me telling me how mean, arrogant, hateful and wrong a person i am for not believing as she does.
This sort of thing is exactly why i do not have anything to do with my mother’s side of the family.
The funny thing to me, is, my mother (her daughter) is no christian herself… she read the Bible when i was a young teen and she quickly decided that such an awful, murdering, misogynistic entity such as Yahweh could not be an ‘all-loving’, all-powerful deity and CERTAINLY wasn’t one she would want to worship. Even she saw through the gaping holes in the Bible and declared it “a desert cult that somehow grew out of control”.
So, there we go… (half of) my family.
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August 4th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Heh….heh heh heh….cricket…ha!
That takes me back.
August 4th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
4 years ago.. amazing.