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	<title>Comments on: Atheist Humanist advertising campaign has unknowingly used photographs of the children of two evangelical Christians.  The poster which can be seen on billboards across the UK shows two youngsters with the slogan &#8216;Don&#8217;t Label Me&#8217;.</title>
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	<description>I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.</description>
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		<title>By: Anon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are so petty and malicious. They&#039;re models. Child models. Of course they look happy!
It&#039;s insulting and offensive to think that they only look happy because they&#039;re Christian (which they&#039;re not anyway - they&#039;re the children of Christian parents, get it right!) This implies you think that no one else is going to be happy in quite the same &quot;shining&quot; way. How arrogant and pathetic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are so petty and malicious. They&#8217;re models. Child models. Of course they look happy!<br />
It&#8217;s insulting and offensive to think that they only look happy because they&#8217;re Christian (which they&#8217;re not anyway &#8211; they&#8217;re the children of Christian parents, get it right!) This implies you think that no one else is going to be happy in quite the same &#8220;shining&#8221; way. How arrogant and pathetic.</p>
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		<title>By: Rob Slack</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rob Slack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Mr Mason has been supplementing his income for years by giving photographs to agencies who sell them on to newspapers and advertising campaigns&quot;

I&#039;m not Christian, I&#039;m atheist. However, I was subjected to much of standard Christian  indoctrination at school. I grew up believing that for all the nonsense of their belief in mumbo jumbo, Christians were basically decent people. Should a Christian obtain funds for nothing, which is what Mason did (according to above)? Is it really any better than theft? Both involve getting something for nothing at the expense of others. Theft is illegal..we mad a law. Is it morally worse than what Mason does? Is it really Christian to be a money grabber? Maybe it is; it is morally questionable (like most advertising..the Atheist Bus Campaign and the recent Humanist campaign were clear exceptions. They were not designed to rip people off, but to inform).

As J Sutton said above, &quot;They are not Christian children but the children of christian parents&quot;. They have a right to make free choices when they are intellectually mature enough to do so. They should not be indoctrinated, as perhaps they have been.

Whoever said it was &quot;their Christianity shining etc.&quot; is probably ill..or a joker. Ongoing research in genetics/psychology seems to be showing there is a religious/gullibility gene. The sooner the research reaches a firm conclusion (and I feel it will clearly show the gene creates an abnormality) the sooner religious people can be treated for their illness. (Just a little tongue in cheek..but only a little!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Mr Mason has been supplementing his income for years by giving photographs to agencies who sell them on to newspapers and advertising campaigns&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not Christian, I&#8217;m atheist. However, I was subjected to much of standard Christian  indoctrination at school. I grew up believing that for all the nonsense of their belief in mumbo jumbo, Christians were basically decent people. Should a Christian obtain funds for nothing, which is what Mason did (according to above)? Is it really any better than theft? Both involve getting something for nothing at the expense of others. Theft is illegal..we mad a law. Is it morally worse than what Mason does? Is it really Christian to be a money grabber? Maybe it is; it is morally questionable (like most advertising..the Atheist Bus Campaign and the recent Humanist campaign were clear exceptions. They were not designed to rip people off, but to inform).</p>
<p>As J Sutton said above, &#8220;They are not Christian children but the children of christian parents&#8221;. They have a right to make free choices when they are intellectually mature enough to do so. They should not be indoctrinated, as perhaps they have been.</p>
<p>Whoever said it was &#8220;their Christianity shining etc.&#8221; is probably ill..or a joker. Ongoing research in genetics/psychology seems to be showing there is a religious/gullibility gene. The sooner the research reaches a firm conclusion (and I feel it will clearly show the gene creates an abnormality) the sooner religious people can be treated for their illness. (Just a little tongue in cheek..but only a little!)</p>
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		<title>By: j sutton</title>
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		<dc:creator>j sutton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They are not Christian children but the children of christian parents. That is the whole point of the ad. Idiots.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They are not Christian children but the children of christian parents. That is the whole point of the ad. Idiots.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter Scott</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like to think that Charlotte, 8, and Ollie, 7, are looking so happy because they know Father Christmas will bring them presents in just a few weeks. Their belief in this myth is a more likely cause for their happy smiles than any religious myth. A little later in life, they will learn there is no Father Christmas. As for the other christmas story, it may take a little longer for them to grow up and choose for themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like to think that Charlotte, 8, and Ollie, 7, are looking so happy because they know Father Christmas will bring them presents in just a few weeks. Their belief in this myth is a more likely cause for their happy smiles than any religious myth. A little later in life, they will learn there is no Father Christmas. As for the other christmas story, it may take a little longer for them to grow up and choose for themselves.</p>
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