"Dear atheist: death is the wages of sin, and payday is here"

[EvolveOrConvolve]

That's the message that was on the marquee at one of the fundie churches I pass on my way to work. In what other area of life is it okay to threaten someone with death and get away with it? Can you imagine the uproar if McDonald's threatened Burger King customers with death for eating at the wrong fast food joint?

The sign illustrates two things: 1) religion enjoys a privilege far above it's benefit to society; 2) religion IS a delusion.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Where else can you tell people that no amount of torture would be enough to fully punish them?

Religion is evil to its core.

[Exultant Democracy]

4. Better hope no one alerts on the obvious little nugget of truth.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. I know what you mean, but if you're not going to tell the truth, why talk at all?

[defacto7]

9. Hear, Hear!

[AlbertCat]

6. Where else can you tell people that no amount of torture would be enough to fully punish them?

And I'm supposed to have respect for their beliefs.

I. Don't. Think. So.

[Warpy]

2. Well, right on both counts

but I'd like to see where immortality is guaranteed and proof that it exists.

Otherwise, the bozo of a preacher needs to be reminded that he, too, is going to die and when he does, his flock will wonder what horrible sins he'd been hiding.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Death is the wages of living.

And we will all have our payday. The church should have made it real scary and said "eternal death".

[FiveGoodMen]

10. "I've been thinking about mortality...

...I'm think it's a cheap price to pay for existence."

-- Bob Geldof

[onager]

5. How about..."Death is the wages of ignorance..."

"Seriously ill? Don't see a doctor, just pray the sick away!"

[AlbertCat]

8. The sign illustrates two things:

Three things.

Payday is not here. I'm doing fine.

So they're just out and out wrong too.

[defacto7]

11. I think reality and averages

make his payday just as close as mine. That is as along as he isn't upping the ante by taking arms against his sea of troubles which would be us. We seem to be his side ache for some reason. Does it make sense to hate and fear an ideological minority who have no religious texts or organization? Does it make sense for such people to amass themselves to pick off a few vulnerable individuals in the name of their god? How adult of them.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

12. This particular church seems to have a hard-on for atheists

They often post snotty little finger-wagging messages for non-believers. Usually with either an implied threat of hellfire or promises of the magic of jebus' kingdom in heaven.

Not surprisingly, they also have the "homosexuality is a death style, not a lifestyle" slogan posted at least once or twice a year.

[AlbertCat]

13. "homosexuality is a death style, not a lifestyle"

Well, as long as it has style! FABULOUS STYLE

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Bring it, mofo's.

How could anyone possibly interpret that as anything but a threat?

[DetlefK]

15. Wait, wasn't there somebody who already died for our sins? Why do we have to?

[wavesofeuphoria]

16. Sounds like hate speech to me ...