Town, if you have a problem (obviously, two months after the fact) with atheists showing solidarity,
I don't. Never did. Never said I did. Never will say it.
Hopefully that''ll do on the particular. I've tried the less obvious to no real effect...or affect even.
my suggestion is to suck it up and get on with your life. That, or find a battle worth fighting.
I never thought of this as a contest of any particular sort. More a Q&A gone awry.
When it comes to poor taste at Christmastime, the choices are virtually endless.
Without question. Blinding nearly.
But given the buffet of carnal, obsessive, grotesque, garish, and freakish "holiday" consumer pop culture barbarism, you decided to find a bone to pick with folks who had the temerity to violate your own personal sense of entitlement.
No, I actually entered on another point entirely (and that's a pointlessly grating way of distinguishing between your taste and someone else's, which is partly why this sort of thing keeps going). This one:
Many companies that rent space, especially desirable ones, have large chunks of time rented out, much like some apartments, well in advance. It's no more or less likely that the next paid patron was due for their use and the complaints had nothing to do with anything, not that Llamar wouldn't let them think otherwise given the nature of the advertising area.
Discussing whether free speech was being monkeyed with. Fly assumed it was and I offered another perspective. It wasn't until Fly, three posts later, said he didn't see why anyone would be upset that I even ventured an opinion on motivation.
And make no mistake, that's what this boils down to.
What you've locked your jaws on is a billboard--again: a BILLBOARD--encouraging America's most irrelevant and misunderstood minority to just hang in there around a time of year when many people regardless of faith (or not) feel alone and bereft of much hope.
What I've resisted is the attempt by several likely well meaning people to paint my point as something other than what it is or to cast it in a light that isn't mine. If the response had been, "Oh, well it doesn't bother me" there's no discourse. But that same fellow says, "Oh, then you mean X or are afraid of Y" then they're going to get an answer.
If that's enough to annoy your high-nosed sense of taste,
See, again, that's the very sort of nonsense that invites "battle".
High nose, I chose, none of that remotely reflecting anything but your agreement with the handful of people who tried harder lines along the same suppositions.
Or, everyone is the hero of their narrative. Painting a cape on yourself isn't going to help.
I suggest you get over yourself.
Supra, or, after you, to be polite. :e4e: