Missing atheist sign found in Washington state
By Mallory Simon
CNN
(CNN) -- An atheist sign criticizing Christianity that was erected alongside a Nativity scene was taken from the Legislative Building in Olympia, Washington, on Friday and later found in a ditch.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation had a placard up in the Legislative Building in Olympia, Washington.
1 of 2 An employee from country radio station KMPS-FM in Seattle told CNN the sign was dropped off at the station by someone who found it in a ditch.
"I thought it would be safe," Freedom From Religion Foundation co-founder Annie Laurie Gaylor told CNN earlier Friday. "It's always a shock when your sign is censored or stolen or mutilated. It's not something you get used to."
The sign, which celebrates the winter solstice, has had some residents and Christian organizations calling atheists Scrooges because they said it was attacking the celebration of Jesus Christ's birth.
"Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds," the sign from the Freedom From Religion Foundation says in part.
The sign, which was at the Legislative Building at 6:30 a.m. PT, was gone by 7:30 a.m., Gaylor said.
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GJ - Confidential to Joe Krohn and all the folks at WELS Church and Chicanery -
Your mentor Curt Peterson was once a WELS Church Growther too. Now he is publishing with this outfit - Freedom From Religion, as posted earlier on Ichabod. I wonder how he got on the WELS world mission board, right after colloquy from Missouri. Valleskey influence, maybe?
"Curtis A. Peterson holds a B.A. from Concordia Senior College, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and a M.Div and STM (l966 and l983 respectively) from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri.
In almost 30 years in the ministry in both the Missouri and Wisconsin Synods, he was an activist with many published articles supporting the orthodox Lutheran cause in the "Battle for the Bible" in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and author of several articles in the Wisconsin Synod between l987 and l995. He also delivered several essays at pastoral conferences during those years.
He served congregations in Burlington, N.C., Rock Falls, Ill., Garland, Tex. and Gretna, La., in the LCMS and in Milwaukee, Wis. in the WELS.
A Foundation member, he is now retired, resides in Wisconsin and calls himself a humanist and a freethinker."
Another one of your heroes, Mark Freier, now performs atheist and Hindu weddings (for money, of course). His former WELS congregation is now Evangelical Covenant.
And where are Kelly Voigt, Randy Cutter, and Rick Miller?
All the senior Church Growth leaders ought to take a look at their soul-destroying work. The leaders made a lot of disciples--which is what CG is all about--but their disciples drifted even farther away from the faith.
