Good luck with this.

Atheists dictate: no one has the right to force their religious beliefs on someone else.

Freedom of religion means we have freedom FROM religion. The fact that people who aren’t Christian are fighting for their rights and refusing to be treated as second-class citizens doesn’t mean Christians are being discriminated against or treated poorly.

And no, not ALL Christians tell me I’m going to hell all the time, and they don’t ALL try to encourage me to have a close personal relationship with Jesus, but I know they pray for my soul and believe it. And most of them vote in ways that require me to behave like I’m a believer (i.e. give up control over my reproductive rights).

You are preaching to a group of people who know what a scientific theory is and how it differs from an unproven hypothesis (which is the way the word is (mis-)used in common speech). You are also preaching to a group of people who know the difference between the fact of evolution (which no biologist disputes because the evidence is indisputable) and the theory or evolution (how the obvious fact of evolution can be explained/ how it happened). Same thing with the fact of gravity (indisputable and obvious) and the theory of gravity (how the fact of gravity can be explained).

Since you display great ignorance of this level of science the more you write the more of a fool you make yourself out to be. If you want to be taken seriously instead of dismissed as an ignorant and extremely rude troll, then you should either shut up or read the evolution FAQ suggested by the previous respondant. If you are not as stupid as you make yourself out to be then perhaps you will understand it. I hope so. Otherwise you will simply go on painting yourself as an ignorant and prejudiced arsehole that nobody wants to know. You don’t need an automotive number plate to achieve that. .

The website talkorigins.org would be a great place for you to address your obvious ignorance about evolution. The evolution FAQ would be a great place to start.

So really it just teaches me I never want to meet them.”

Huh?

I tried to read the resulting back and forth, but it just got muddy and ugly.

I think a world divided by labels and finger pointing is a fine world indeed!

(Of course, that was a joke.)

Sheesh.

Nice site; I enjoyed my brief visit and will be back. Consider yourself Stumbled.

Brian

The second hilarious thing is that it seems that the worker presumably didn’t know what the word ‘atheist’ meant until her co-worker advised her, otherwise why did her attitude change so drastically when you asked for 1 instead of i?

The worrying thing is that you feel you have to do this at all in order to make a political statement against atheism being seen as ‘vile’. I find the role of Christian extremism in American politics and society pretty disturbing – particularly the insidious anti-evolution ‘intelligent design’ agenda and the popularity of those weird ‘left-behind’ novels. As a child I was subject to a kind of evangelical brainwashing (which doesn’t appear to have left permanent damage) but makes me vary wary when I see its manifestation creeping across other countries. I know that not all Christians are fundamentalists (some of my best friends are Christians) nevertheless it is a relatively fruitless exercise to debate with people who only argue on their own terms and with reference to their own interpretation of their own scriptures.

It seems to me that education is the best way to combat the sort of ignorance which leads people to blind belief and prejudice. However, I’m not convinced that education through registration plate is the most effective strategy. Not least because maybe the God-botherers might get a kick out of bashing into your vehicle as a way of combatting the influence of Satan on the streets.

Would love to know about the complaint letter – did you ever get round to sending it and if so have you got a response yet?