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June 24, 2011

Fears of religious vandalism limit free speech

A bus company in Little Rock, Arkansas asked for prohibitively expensive insurance against vandalism from an atheist group that wanted to place an ad on its buses. Apparently they feared that the ad's message "Are you good without God? Millions are" would inflame Christians enough that they would attack the buses.

A spokesperson for the atheist group draws the obvious conclusion, "The insurance money needed from us basically says CATA [the bus company] and On The Move [the bus company's ad agency] trust the atheists in this community more so than the religious, otherwise the churches that advertise would have that extra insurance premium added to their total cost."

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It's not "vandalism" it's christian terrorism.

There is no difference between christians destroying of atheist signs in Arkansas and the taliban blowing up buddhist statues in Afghanistan. Both were done for the same reasons by the same sort of people.

And as for blaming atheists by charging them more money for insurance, that's exactly the same things done to blacks in the US. People falsely claimed that "blacks lower property values" as an excuse for running them out of neighborhoods. And insurance companies and banks often charge blacks higher insurance rates or interest rates by using phony statistics about "life expectancy" and "risk".

Both are bullshit arguments use to discriminate, attack and exclude certain people from legal protection and social acceptance.

Posted by P Smith on June 26, 2011 04:47 AM