The folks over at Another Goddamned Podcast have an interesting take on the Atheist Bus.
Link to the podcast Another Goddamned Podcast #40.
Ex does not like that they used Christmas iconography in the campaign. This ties it needlessly to Christmas.
Their major objection appears to be that they did not like the American Humanist Association spokesperson and thought that he should have attacked Bill Donahue. Here I have to disagree. The AHA spokesperson was horribly ineffectual, but the only thing I think he could have done worse was to try and confront Donahue. If he had he would have been creamed. It was better for him to not get drawn in and to continue to promote the campaign. In the end he seemed the reasonable one and Donahue the raving lunatic.
What bothered most of the AGP herd, was that part of the rational for the campaign was:
“Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion.”
I agree that this statement attributed to Fred Edwords is pathetic. I joined a humanist group but I did find their newsletter verging on whiny.
In the end we don’t have to all agree. This group did try to do something. Maybe their execution was not 100% but the got their message in the national news and they will have learned from the attempt. I can not wait till next year.
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December 8, 2008 at 3:24 pm |
Donohue is an irrelevant moron brought onto the network for ratings like so many Ann Coulters. Just what the hell is wrong with American news networks that they act in such unprofessional manners? They could learn a lot from us. His whole job is based on inflating perceived slights to Catholicism. A lot of Catholics can’t stand him. Catholics for Choice has done a nice deconstruction of Donohue. Is it just me or does he remind you of Archie Bunker?