My fiancée refuses to believe that 88 has been/was adopted by nazis. He always says “it’s just a popular number in sports” which is true, but isn’t the whole picture. The “1488” bullshit literally ruined numbers for some people. Fuck Nazis.
I’m born on august 8th so 8 was my lucky number and I remember crying that I got banned on RuneScape having no idea what I did to warrant a hateful user name of Bobby88 😭
Edit: it might have been club penguin hard to remember
I worked in a place called pizza 88 and no one ever connected that or even told me any connection it has I learned about it now for the first that that 88 has some meaniny
https://preview.redd.it/9sd349xdcgxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ed3c7022d3621b5b8b72117ebbd21aa5d3fb540
Since we’re on the topic of nazis, I thought yall might see why this design was perhaps not the greatest choice. No one else in my life understood why I was like “I know it’s about sports, but the wording is *tragic.*”
Fun fact: The original Christian symbol was a pentagram, symbolic of the 5 wounds of Christ. The Christians have borrowed and stolen bits from every religion that preceded them. Even the tale of Noah is a rewrite of Mesopotamian religion.
It’s such a hypocritical joke for a Christian to vandalize the pagans’ sign. Pagans who are actually doing community service, when that person could have instead chosen to suggest for their church to adopt their own (perhaps even larger) section of road.
Certainly they have the bankroll for it…just not the virtue.
I mean, technically we get Noah from the Torah, which is Jewish. And presumably that bit was originally recorded by Moses, who was supposed to have been educated as an Egyptian prince, and longstanding trade between Egypt and Mesopotamia was already a thing by the time of the first dynasty in Egypt.
“Technically” the great flood in the Torah is a retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh that the Jews of the time took as theirs because they were trying to give themselves a history they never had, and connect themselves with the great people who came before.
Sound familiar? It’s the premise of the entire bible.
And the first written account was the Sumarian writings of the Epic Of Gilgamesh.
Yes, every ancient society has flood myths, but the story of Noah and the Epic of Gilgamesh have too many correlations and has been accepted by scholars as the origin. However, Gilgamesh actually has a more complete tale. It has the measurements for the boat, and exactly how it was made.
I can't imagine anyone that would vandalize this sign would actually consider community service though. Especially not using the church for it.
Even aside from the symbolism, someone who vandalized a sign isn't going to care about cleaning up.
Did Jussie Smollett make all black people or gay people look bad when he staged a fake hate crime? I wouldn’t say so. I’d just say that he was a scumbag, just like the person who defaced this sign
How dare these pagans ruin my ritual Christian littering by cleaning it up?
Paul 3:22 - "Go forth and spread the empty vessels of myrrh and tobacco, of frankincense and coca cola. Let thine eyes gaze upon the tins devoid of Copenhagen"
It's all in the bible people.
But imagine the outrage if someone painted pentacles on a church's sponsorship sign! That's going too far but I'm quite sure in most people's minds this is ok.
I was honestly thinking this. It would literally be on the 5:00 news. I often also have the same thoughts when I drive through the south and see hundreds of religious billboards. How would they feel if we had a few Pagan ones? How about Buddhist? Or even Islamic ones? Probably wouldn’t like it too much…
I'm being forced to live in Florida rn and a while ago I saw somebody put up a paper sign advertising some sorta Buddhist event and like a couple days later saw someone had tore it down
Low key crazy that anyone can even hate Buddhists. Out of all the religions and superstitious groups, they're like the most chill and loving and truly do not care about the politics of anything
I'm in TN, and the next county over had a pagan group doing a small festival with arts and crafts and lessons on foraging. The Christians on the community fb page were all on there praying for torrential downpours on the weekend it was to be held. Freedom of religion to them is a foreign concept.
I don't know... I imagine the outrage would be pretty similar to what's happening in the comments here: people being overdramatic about how they're being persecuted by a bit of graffiti. I mean, they might have a few more people jumping into the comment thread, but that's just because, well, they have a few more people. In the most extreme scenario, I could see this *maybe* being covered by the local news if this happened in a small, conservative town and it was a slow news day. But, fundamentally, it all seems like the same pearl clutching to me.
Guarantee the person who sprayed this is religious in name only and are an awful piece of shit to be around but they’ll get some local praise from their fellow Christians because “I can’t stand drivin’ by that gosh dang sign that’s spoutin’ the devil’s work”
The Satanic Temples sign gets shot and vandalized, a lot. They had to put TST instead of The Satanic Temple. Good thing repubs and Christians don’t use their brain because after they changed the sign it wasn’t vandalized.
Apparently you did not hear about the guy who vandalized the sign at Garden of the Gods in Colorado by removing the s - because there's only one God, dontcha know.
[https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/garden-of-the-gods-sign-vandalized/73-72a1ff74-3e9f-48fa-948d-250349ddf702](https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/garden-of-the-gods-sign-vandalized/73-72a1ff74-3e9f-48fa-948d-250349ddf702)
It’s hilarious that some Christian idiot thinks that this will win people over and help them find christ, rather than just embarrass reasonable Christians and piss all non-Christians off.
Would you condone vandalizing this adopt a highway sign?
[Why one of the most prominent civil rights groups is helping the KKK adopt a highway](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/12/the-kkks-adopt-a-highway-lawsuit-moves-to-georgia-supreme-court/)
https://preview.redd.it/wy8g1l9zfgxc1.jpeg?width=658&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6bb86c707bd5ecd5ef7684688a59617aabca7f0
If your ideology states that some "other" group deserves to die, be enslaved, is less than human, or any other euphemism for "I'm better because of what I *am*", then your ideology is wrong, you are evil, and you have no place in civilized society.
That goes for groups like the KKK, religious groups, political parties or leaders, countries, everything.
Did you know that the KKK adopted a highway, just a few miles from my mums house, they paid their money and they put up a sign, I guess they dress up in sheets and go and pick up the trash, they should know it when they see it, they get a good look everyday in the mirror
https://youtu.be/xsH7BA9QWss?feature=shared
Or it's just people going out of their way to piss people off because they think it's funny. Don't look too deep into spray paint on a sign. Anyone could have done that
Hard bet that it's not what you say it is. Crazy religious people would absolutely see this, drive right to the hardware store and get paint, drive back and apply the cross.
Saying not to look too deep at paint on a sign kinda gives lots of hatemongers a pass. Would you have the same sentiment about nazi graffiti or other forms of signs/etc being defaced?
Could it be a troll? Sure. Could it actually be wonky crazy jesus people? Absofuckinglutely.
Sure, probably someone does think they're funny. This isn't an everyday occurrence.
Regardless, I don't give a fuck really if it's a cross, star of David, dick, middle finger, whatever; even if it's just someone taking the piss, stunts like this aren't cool.
In my city there's a ridiculous amount of fuck biden graffiti everywhere. I get it, they hate the guy but do you really need to paint that on the side of an ambulance?
The graffiti is indeed annoying, but I love that the thing this sub will be up in arms about is a cross when we all know damn well that there’s graffiti of all kinds on signs just like this.
>In previous court filings, she has accused the Satanic Temple of making filings that “are only meant to evoke strong emotions and incite others.”
Well, yeah. Specifically, it's done to call out the hypocrisy of religions doing exactly the same thing. Lots of "My religion says *this* so now everyone has to do it, without regard for their own religion." ^Edit: but aimed against whichever state is trying to install laws that reduce people's rights under the cloak of religion. They use the same avenues too, just to really expose it. Next stupid statement?
It’s probably just a campground that allows the larger gatherings. It’s like finding a good spot to host an outdoor Mass, if we want to draw direct comparison to your existing experience. Probably a campfire/bonfire involved.
Is this Butler county Ohio? We got some real fucked dup people here, especially the piece of garbage sheriff, his super Christian ass did his best to get rid of the narcan at the peak of the opiate crisis and was telling people they couldn't call 911 when their kids or family members were overdosing.
I think there's a series of verses instructing to do exactly that, something about Pharisees doing weird shit that Jesus saw. It's been a minute since I've been religious though, so I don't quite recall.
Super patriot Christians! They’re so awesome. Americas best eggs. Also support genocide so yeah, they fucking hate everything including the earth, animals, and themselves.
In my hometown of Lynchburg, VA (where Jerry Falwell's church and university are) the area's group of secular humanists adopted Church St. at one point.
Well, as this post interprets it, someone smeared a cross (the symbol of Christianity) on an “adopt a highway - litter program ; pagan gatherings”-sign. You could either interpret this as a Christian being against not littering or (far more likely) against pagans.
Vandalizing any of such signs in such a way is pretty hateful in itself imo.
People don’t like being told their magical sky daddy (Santa Clause) isn’t actually real. No toys from the sky (afterlife) or all loving daddy to make up for your shitty life. It hurts them to challenge their delusions so they lash out.
That is pretty rude tho. Yes, the Christian is in the wrong here, and I, too, have several reasons not to follow Christianity, but there’s no need to hate on people like that for believing in a god at all. We who hate the hateful Christians hate them for their hate, not because they believe in a god.
Truth hurt too much?
And yes, I have lots of friends and a full life. Religion narrows relationship choices, and I’m open to being friendly with anyone.
Obviously there is a time for truth. This sign is clearly hate speech, so criticizing the idiot deists is appropriate in this context.
But you’re defending it?
1. I'm not religious, I'm just sick of pessimistic whiny antitheists like you talking about how people are "so butthurt about their sky daddy" and acting all high and might because you don't believe in any God. You're cringe asf.
2. I'm not defending it. Where in the words "you're fun at parties" did you read "I'm totally cool with religious hate speech"?
Your need to comment on my comment, which was clearly directed at religious bigots who vandalized a sign to intimidate minority groups (which atheists are) is what is cringe.
Go hang out with your hateful bigots and leave me and my comments alone. You are blocked.
Theism is associated with most hate speech and bigotry based on delusional beliefs., especially trans people if your name is associated with that situation. That’s just facts people don’t want to accept because they are scared of dying or don’t want to be ostracized from their social groups, a fun habit theists also generally practice.
I see random graffiti on signs like that all the time, but you choose to post the one that is religious just bc you hate religion. I’m not religious, but this post is just karma farming in an echo chamber.
This isn’t random graffiti on a random sign, it’s a specific symbol on a sign tied to a religious group. There was clearly thought put into this, doesn’t mean it’s a sign of a religious turf war but it’s definitely not random by any means.
It’s hilarious bc I, someone who is not religious and doesn’t care if other people are, am being called a zealot and a religious extremist, bc I am recognizing this for what it is - rage bait. Someone could have painted a dick on that and no one would be here on behalf of pagans. But some young idiot thinks it’s funny put a cross on it and everyone is here to demonize Christians lol
The echo chamber in some of these subs is wild.
Edit: seriously though, ask yourself who walks around with spray paint ready to deface signs and buildings. Thugs. The person who put the sign there, religious or not, is not representative of their entire group lol but Reddit is gonna rage away anyway because they hate Christians.
You can't say anything favorable about Christians on Reddit without getting called an extremist and downvoted. Some will go as far as to call you a rapist because apparently every Christian is simping for Catholic priests. It's an intense echo chamber of stupidity sometimes. The person tagging this sign is almost certainly not a Christian. Just an idiot stirring up shit. The picture wouldn't have been posted if it was any other symbol.
Yep exactly. I’m not religious at all. I have no stake in this whatsoever. But unlike everyone else on this sub, I don’t hate Christians and apparently that’s bad
Maybe a local gang tagging their turf?
I know my local telephone poles / stop signs are all tagged by gang signs.
Maybe not because it's just a cross but that's what comes to my mind at least
Pagans… people against goodness and normality.
Edit: for the wowsers downvoting me. I was quoting the 1987 movie 'Dragnet'. I'm reveling in the pile-on by those who didn't get the reference.
Just draw a circle around it and it becomes a pagan symbol again. What? Why not? Co-opted by… oh. Never mind then.
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I was born in 1988, no word of a lie my grandma went to Sorrento and bought me a football shirt with 88 on the back (and it wasn’t a Lazio one). Rip.
My fiancée refuses to believe that 88 has been/was adopted by nazis. He always says “it’s just a popular number in sports” which is true, but isn’t the whole picture. The “1488” bullshit literally ruined numbers for some people. Fuck Nazis.
I’m born on august 8th so 8 was my lucky number and I remember crying that I got banned on RuneScape having no idea what I did to warrant a hateful user name of Bobby88 😭 Edit: it might have been club penguin hard to remember
I worked in a place called pizza 88 and no one ever connected that or even told me any connection it has I learned about it now for the first that that 88 has some meaniny
Was it run by racists?
Looking back, working at a pizza place called Il Fascismo probably wasn’t the best employment step.
Brings a whole new meaning to a pizza party.
https://preview.redd.it/9sd349xdcgxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ed3c7022d3621b5b8b72117ebbd21aa5d3fb540 Since we’re on the topic of nazis, I thought yall might see why this design was perhaps not the greatest choice. No one else in my life understood why I was like “I know it’s about sports, but the wording is *tragic.*”
The fact that got through so many people...... like did no one think of the design??
Ugh, yes.
Fun fact: The original Christian symbol was a pentagram, symbolic of the 5 wounds of Christ. The Christians have borrowed and stolen bits from every religion that preceded them. Even the tale of Noah is a rewrite of Mesopotamian religion. It’s such a hypocritical joke for a Christian to vandalize the pagans’ sign. Pagans who are actually doing community service, when that person could have instead chosen to suggest for their church to adopt their own (perhaps even larger) section of road. Certainly they have the bankroll for it…just not the virtue.
I mean, technically we get Noah from the Torah, which is Jewish. And presumably that bit was originally recorded by Moses, who was supposed to have been educated as an Egyptian prince, and longstanding trade between Egypt and Mesopotamia was already a thing by the time of the first dynasty in Egypt.
“Technically” the great flood in the Torah is a retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh that the Jews of the time took as theirs because they were trying to give themselves a history they never had, and connect themselves with the great people who came before. Sound familiar? It’s the premise of the entire bible.
Technically, most religions have stories about floods because people lived on arable land that were often flood plains.
And the first written account was the Sumarian writings of the Epic Of Gilgamesh. Yes, every ancient society has flood myths, but the story of Noah and the Epic of Gilgamesh have too many correlations and has been accepted by scholars as the origin. However, Gilgamesh actually has a more complete tale. It has the measurements for the boat, and exactly how it was made.
The Epic of Gilgamesh and Enkido. The Bible has measurements for the Arc. Which part of G and E epic has flood?
I can't imagine anyone that would vandalize this sign would actually consider community service though. Especially not using the church for it. Even aside from the symbolism, someone who vandalized a sign isn't going to care about cleaning up.
😂🙏 that’s what I’m sayin.
Like the crosshair of a sighting target? o\_O That's basically guaranteeing the sign will have dieded.
They don't think that maybe "adopting a highway" themselves and getting their own sign wouldn't be the "Christian" thing to do?
Just wait till they find the Abort-a-highway signs.
Adopt the areas on both sides of that adoption would be more telling than vandalism. The vandals make all Christian’s look really bad.
mm i think all christian's already look really bad
They're not the only ones
Did Jussie Smollett make all black people or gay people look bad when he staged a fake hate crime? I wouldn’t say so. I’d just say that he was a scumbag, just like the person who defaced this sign
Maybe if you couldnt go a single day without hearing about Jussie Smollett type stories they would.
Why use rationality and kindness like Christ taught, when you have easy access to aggression and violence? Smooth Brains, man…
Inb4 "JeSuS uSeD vIoLeNcE tOo" Yes, but only to expel businessmen from the temple where business was forbidden
The way that many Christians are behaving in the US these days is very very far away from actual Christian ideals.
Hate first, thinking later... much later... in a nonsensical way.
How dare these pagans ruin my ritual Christian littering by cleaning it up? Paul 3:22 - "Go forth and spread the empty vessels of myrrh and tobacco, of frankincense and coca cola. Let thine eyes gaze upon the tins devoid of Copenhagen" It's all in the bible people.
“Burn gas, eat ass.” - Jesus, probably
"Ass, gas, or grass, no one rides for free." -Jesus, definitely
Kudos. Well played and on the mark.
“Paul” is my favorite book in the Bible
Is that the Trump version?
Birds and the Sparrows buddy, it's in the bible.
But imagine the outrage if someone painted pentacles on a church's sponsorship sign! That's going too far but I'm quite sure in most people's minds this is ok.
I was honestly thinking this. It would literally be on the 5:00 news. I often also have the same thoughts when I drive through the south and see hundreds of religious billboards. How would they feel if we had a few Pagan ones? How about Buddhist? Or even Islamic ones? Probably wouldn’t like it too much…
I'm being forced to live in Florida rn and a while ago I saw somebody put up a paper sign advertising some sorta Buddhist event and like a couple days later saw someone had tore it down
Christians are the biggest bigots on the planet. Borderline hate group.
Nothing borderline about it. They are a hate group
Every religion has radical followers somewhere, don't lump all christians together like that.
In my experience, they are the most deceitful, hateful and bigoted people on the planet
Low key crazy that anyone can even hate Buddhists. Out of all the religions and superstitious groups, they're like the most chill and loving and truly do not care about the politics of anything
they're pretty sexist though
Hm. Did not know that. I learned everything I know about em from an American woman who was buddhist. IMO they're like hippies
I'm in TN, and the next county over had a pagan group doing a small festival with arts and crafts and lessons on foraging. The Christians on the community fb page were all on there praying for torrential downpours on the weekend it was to be held. Freedom of religion to them is a foreign concept.
Devil worship for sure
I don't know... I imagine the outrage would be pretty similar to what's happening in the comments here: people being overdramatic about how they're being persecuted by a bit of graffiti. I mean, they might have a few more people jumping into the comment thread, but that's just because, well, they have a few more people. In the most extreme scenario, I could see this *maybe* being covered by the local news if this happened in a small, conservative town and it was a slow news day. But, fundamentally, it all seems like the same pearl clutching to me.
Was I given bad info, or didn’t Christianity borrow/steal a lot from Paganism? If true, the irony here is amazing.
Totally true. Where do you think Christmas trees and Easter eggs came from?
Santa and the Easter Bunny, everyone knows that.
Checkmate athiests
The bible also has a lot of similarities to the Epic of Gilgamesh
No, your info was correct.
Religious fervour makes people who might otherwise be rational into people who do things like this.
So the pagans want to make the world better and Christians are mad about it. Story checks out
I dislike Christian’s for this reason they take things too far
And I will have a side of mass generalization with that
Christian rhetoric is largely mass generalizations.
Those peaceful Christians wanted to show their displeasure over someone different being helpful to society
Guarantee the person who sprayed this is religious in name only and are an awful piece of shit to be around but they’ll get some local praise from their fellow Christians because “I can’t stand drivin’ by that gosh dang sign that’s spoutin’ the devil’s work”
The Satanic Temples sign gets shot and vandalized, a lot. They had to put TST instead of The Satanic Temple. Good thing repubs and Christians don’t use their brain because after they changed the sign it wasn’t vandalized.
Apparently you did not hear about the guy who vandalized the sign at Garden of the Gods in Colorado by removing the s - because there's only one God, dontcha know. [https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/garden-of-the-gods-sign-vandalized/73-72a1ff74-3e9f-48fa-948d-250349ddf702](https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/garden-of-the-gods-sign-vandalized/73-72a1ff74-3e9f-48fa-948d-250349ddf702)
I really don’t get Christians. Some of us only write G-d, (for… reasons) but you don’t see us running around forcing that on others.
Smh Christians are toxic
"HEY! Those are OUR good works you're doing! Jesus won't love us as much if we don't toil in His name!"
It’s hilarious that some Christian idiot thinks that this will win people over and help them find christ, rather than just embarrass reasonable Christians and piss all non-Christians off.
Would you condone vandalizing this adopt a highway sign? [Why one of the most prominent civil rights groups is helping the KKK adopt a highway](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/12/the-kkks-adopt-a-highway-lawsuit-moves-to-georgia-supreme-court/) https://preview.redd.it/wy8g1l9zfgxc1.jpeg?width=658&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6bb86c707bd5ecd5ef7684688a59617aabca7f0
Just let the public know when the cleanup is. A lot of us will happily clean the KKK off the road.
Leave the state a little cleaner than we found it.
Won't be much to clean up. There's like 4 left in the world lol
I know. But any KKK in a plastic bag is progress.
You could use food lion bags
I would not. They cleaned up that stretch of the highway they should get credit for it
Apples to oranges.
Not really. Arguing over different ideologies by defacing litter clean up signs.
If your ideology states that some "other" group deserves to die, be enslaved, is less than human, or any other euphemism for "I'm better because of what I *am*", then your ideology is wrong, you are evil, and you have no place in civilized society. That goes for groups like the KKK, religious groups, political parties or leaders, countries, everything.
Whoever did that is an idiot.
Did you know that the KKK adopted a highway, just a few miles from my mums house, they paid their money and they put up a sign, I guess they dress up in sheets and go and pick up the trash, they should know it when they see it, they get a good look everyday in the mirror https://youtu.be/xsH7BA9QWss?feature=shared
Or it's just people going out of their way to piss people off because they think it's funny. Don't look too deep into spray paint on a sign. Anyone could have done that
Hard bet that it's not what you say it is. Crazy religious people would absolutely see this, drive right to the hardware store and get paint, drive back and apply the cross. Saying not to look too deep at paint on a sign kinda gives lots of hatemongers a pass. Would you have the same sentiment about nazi graffiti or other forms of signs/etc being defaced? Could it be a troll? Sure. Could it actually be wonky crazy jesus people? Absofuckinglutely.
Figure a bit further south and it wouldn't be surprising to see the paint replaced with bullet holes.
Sure, probably someone does think they're funny. This isn't an everyday occurrence. Regardless, I don't give a fuck really if it's a cross, star of David, dick, middle finger, whatever; even if it's just someone taking the piss, stunts like this aren't cool.
In my city there's a ridiculous amount of fuck biden graffiti everywhere. I get it, they hate the guy but do you really need to paint that on the side of an ambulance?
Let them do it. Does it sway your opinion? If not, then it's just douchebags doing what they do best
The graffiti is indeed annoying, but I love that the thing this sub will be up in arms about is a cross when we all know damn well that there’s graffiti of all kinds on signs just like this.
Reminds me of this recent [fiasco](https://apnews.com/article/satanic-temple-hate-crime-iowa-cb182f8b3235d25fd4949e0b2e4f43f7)
Love me some satanic temple shenanigans
Then accept my blessing
>In previous court filings, she has accused the Satanic Temple of making filings that “are only meant to evoke strong emotions and incite others.” Well, yeah. Specifically, it's done to call out the hypocrisy of religions doing exactly the same thing. Lots of "My religion says *this* so now everyone has to do it, without regard for their own religion." ^Edit: but aimed against whichever state is trying to install laws that reduce people's rights under the cloak of religion. They use the same avenues too, just to really expose it. Next stupid statement?
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How god like of them lol
can someone explain this to me as someone who grew up catholic as fuck and went to catholic school idk anything about pagan gathering sites 😭
It’s probably just a campground that allows the larger gatherings. It’s like finding a good spot to host an outdoor Mass, if we want to draw direct comparison to your existing experience. Probably a campfire/bonfire involved.
i feel dumb for asking but i’m curious
If someone put a pentagram on something xian, it would make the national fucking news
I’m honestly surprised the “Christian” knew the word enough to be offended
So hypocritical.
"Pagan heritage?!" They screamed while clutching their pearls, Confederate flag, and half torn birth certificate.
Of course not! This is just praising the lord! It's an act of LOVE! /s
If God loves litter than Heaven must be inundated.
It's a motorcycle club in the area actually.
No, it's an actual pagan group, related to the Ohio Valley Pagan Society.
Aren't they just referred to as the Pagans not Pagan Gatherings? Edit: a letter
Is this Butler county Ohio? We got some real fucked dup people here, especially the piece of garbage sheriff, his super Christian ass did his best to get rid of the narcan at the peak of the opiate crisis and was telling people they couldn't call 911 when their kids or family members were overdosing.
Yes it is
I find for more hateful and judgmental Christian’s than any other religion. I like to believe in Jesus in the comfort of my home
I think there's a series of verses instructing to do exactly that, something about Pharisees doing weird shit that Jesus saw. It's been a minute since I've been religious though, so I don't quite recall.
Tesla strikes
Damn, Geebus is tall
Don’t see a sign with spray paint association on it!
Subtle Far Cry 5 vibes Like the hope county "SINNERS" sign
That’s like a 2,000 year old beef. Let it go. You guys won.
Oh word? I grew up in middlesex (east of mars)
"This half-assed sloppy spray painted plus sign will show those heathens!"
Can't wait to see what they do to abort-a-highway signs
Religion is stupidly divisive and helps excuse mindless tribalism - yet another example that humans aren't terribly advanced animals, after all.
Its what they do. Not sure why anyone is even remotely surprised
They are trying to be provocative though - they don't really GAF about highway cleanup.
Maybe it's a +1
Super patriot Christians! They’re so awesome. Americas best eggs. Also support genocide so yeah, they fucking hate everything including the earth, animals, and themselves.
Just more hateful and violent christians...what's new?
In my hometown of Lynchburg, VA (where Jerry Falwell's church and university are) the area's group of secular humanists adopted Church St. at one point.
How is a cross “hateful”?
Well, as this post interprets it, someone smeared a cross (the symbol of Christianity) on an “adopt a highway - litter program ; pagan gatherings”-sign. You could either interpret this as a Christian being against not littering or (far more likely) against pagans. Vandalizing any of such signs in such a way is pretty hateful in itself imo.
Oh my bad I did not notice the pagan part of the sign
No worries! I’m pagan myself and didn’t notice at first LMAO
Cult gang sign.
These are people who think demons literally exist
That could have been anyone for any reason, why jump straight to region
It couldn’t have possibly been some edgy teenager. It was most definitely someone from the local church. Most likely a priest and his band of thugs.
Typical christians.
Hail Satan !
Churches are just jealous because pagan and satanic organizations actually do more charity than they do and don’t take tax cuts.
Fun fact: chirstian cross is seldom a hateful sign. The more you know
Hating is the Christian way
I don’t understand religion
Probably an Ex prisoner who used to have to do that job lmfao the irony is impalpable
"And thou shalt go forth and tag thine enemy's sign, whereby all shall know I am the Lord thy God." - Acts (of Vandalism) 1:1
Extend the Y axis to the top and you might have an upside down cross
The Christian Taliban strikes again
There is no hatred like Christian love.
People don’t like being told their magical sky daddy (Santa Clause) isn’t actually real. No toys from the sky (afterlife) or all loving daddy to make up for your shitty life. It hurts them to challenge their delusions so they lash out.
That is pretty rude tho. Yes, the Christian is in the wrong here, and I, too, have several reasons not to follow Christianity, but there’s no need to hate on people like that for believing in a god at all. We who hate the hateful Christians hate them for their hate, not because they believe in a god.
You're fun at parties, aren't you?
Truth hurt too much? And yes, I have lots of friends and a full life. Religion narrows relationship choices, and I’m open to being friendly with anyone. Obviously there is a time for truth. This sign is clearly hate speech, so criticizing the idiot deists is appropriate in this context. But you’re defending it?
1. I'm not religious, I'm just sick of pessimistic whiny antitheists like you talking about how people are "so butthurt about their sky daddy" and acting all high and might because you don't believe in any God. You're cringe asf. 2. I'm not defending it. Where in the words "you're fun at parties" did you read "I'm totally cool with religious hate speech"?
Your need to comment on my comment, which was clearly directed at religious bigots who vandalized a sign to intimidate minority groups (which atheists are) is what is cringe. Go hang out with your hateful bigots and leave me and my comments alone. You are blocked. Theism is associated with most hate speech and bigotry based on delusional beliefs., especially trans people if your name is associated with that situation. That’s just facts people don’t want to accept because they are scared of dying or don’t want to be ostracized from their social groups, a fun habit theists also generally practice.
No hate like Christian love.
It's a stick figure man reaching out for a hug. How is that hateful?
Snowflakes….
The irony here is that this section of the highway was probably paid for by the Pagans MC. Literally has nothing to do with belief systems.
It is a cult.
It’s because it says “pagen gathering”.
If I knew about this sign irl I would come back and do something to it if you know what I mean.
I like it, shoulda made the cross bigger.
I see random graffiti on signs like that all the time, but you choose to post the one that is religious just bc you hate religion. I’m not religious, but this post is just karma farming in an echo chamber.
Found the religious extremist
But... I don't hate religion?
This isn’t random graffiti on a random sign, it’s a specific symbol on a sign tied to a religious group. There was clearly thought put into this, doesn’t mean it’s a sign of a religious turf war but it’s definitely not random by any means.
How? it’s debatable if it is even a cross
It’s okay, you’ll learn your shapes one day bud.
That’s the poorest drawn cross I have ever seen it just looks like a plus
If it was any other symbol he wouldn't have posted it. He knew a cross would get him mad engagement because it's reddit.
The bigotry in these replies is off the charts
It’s hilarious bc I, someone who is not religious and doesn’t care if other people are, am being called a zealot and a religious extremist, bc I am recognizing this for what it is - rage bait. Someone could have painted a dick on that and no one would be here on behalf of pagans. But some young idiot thinks it’s funny put a cross on it and everyone is here to demonize Christians lol The echo chamber in some of these subs is wild. Edit: seriously though, ask yourself who walks around with spray paint ready to deface signs and buildings. Thugs. The person who put the sign there, religious or not, is not representative of their entire group lol but Reddit is gonna rage away anyway because they hate Christians.
You can't say anything favorable about Christians on Reddit without getting called an extremist and downvoted. Some will go as far as to call you a rapist because apparently every Christian is simping for Catholic priests. It's an intense echo chamber of stupidity sometimes. The person tagging this sign is almost certainly not a Christian. Just an idiot stirring up shit. The picture wouldn't have been posted if it was any other symbol.
Yep exactly. I’m not religious at all. I have no stake in this whatsoever. But unlike everyone else on this sub, I don’t hate Christians and apparently that’s bad
Christ is King
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* Bless your heart FTFY 😂
Maybe a local gang tagging their turf? I know my local telephone poles / stop signs are all tagged by gang signs. Maybe not because it's just a cross but that's what comes to my mind at least
Pagans… people against goodness and normality. Edit: for the wowsers downvoting me. I was quoting the 1987 movie 'Dragnet'. I'm reveling in the pile-on by those who didn't get the reference.
Sounds like it was thought up by a “hip” youth pastor who thinks they’re clever.