Can we really claim that?
I realize that when you’re trying to make a billboard express an esoteric point, there will be occasions when you’ll fail to make the point. Attempting to reach out to people feeling isolated by their unbelief is a challenge, no doubt about it. It’s why I’m going to try and be nice to this billboard that has recently appeared in Orange County, which claims that: “Atheist make better lovers (after all, no one is watching)”.
Maybe I don’t like it because it intuitively feels untrue (not very scientific, I know). The hottest sex is the kind that’s forbidden, and religious people have all kinds of arbitrary rules that give them a huge advantage in that department. It doesn’t help that according to some studies, smart people tend to have less sex than their idiot counterparts, even when they get married. Let’s not forget that for some, thinking that they are being watched is actually a turn-on. All of this conspires to make me think that this ad is a big fail. I don’t think it’s a claim we can really back up. Sorry people. If it’s any comfort, smart people tend to get more satisfaction out of sex, which means we could claim that it’s more rewarding when you’re a non-believer.
It’s not all bad, though. Ray Comfort, that mustachioed buffoon still trying to prove that fairy-tales are real, got his panties all twisted up when he saw it:
Atheists have to have a reason to get out of bed each day, so they dream up things that give them a reason to exist,” said Comfort, who regularly confronts well known atheists for their nonbelief. “They are bored, and this is sadly how they get kicks.”
Dream up things to give them a reason to exist? Um, that kind of sounds like every single religion that has ever existed, old buddy. Have you ever wondered if Ray’s unconscious isn’t trying to tell him something?
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Anonymous Atheist
Actually, yes, we can really claim that.
The study last year:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/05/15/the-results-of-an-atheist-sex-survey/
http://www.alternet.org/sex/150978/atheists_do_it_better%3A_why_leaving_religion_leads_to_better_sex
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/no_god_yes_yes
http://podcast.thehumanist.org/2011/06/the-humanist-hour-63-sex-and-secularism/
The book that came out last month:
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-God-Religion-Distorts-Sexuality/dp/0970950543
http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2012/01/658
Anonymous Atheist
PS: This reminds me of people jumping all over the Seattle Atheists a couple months ago because of erroneously assuming their 1in4wa.org ad campaign was making an unsupported claim.
She Fights Like A Girl
I wish it were just that easy to equate “smart” and “atheist.”
Carl Baker
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644744-sex-god-how-religion-distorts-sexuality
BlueIndependent
I’m kinda sick of the whole non-believers have better sex thing. It seems like such a petty thing to even mention. And how would anyone know? It’s a subjective experience. This also just feeds the whole “you’re just atheist so you can do whatever you want!” charge, as moronic as that is.
I wonder if this is the same atheist group that recently got caught using a quote on a billboard ad that they attributed to Jefferson, but was actually something he never said. That one was also in OC, so it might be.
Richard
I’m so sick of atheists always acting like they’re better at everything. Look, we win, there is no evidence for god, but why do we have to push it? Why do we have to be more intelligent, more knowledgeable, more charitable etc. And now we’re better lovers? Come on…
Atheists need to stop acting like their shit don’t stink, it’s becoming very obnoxious.
Harkanin
I say simply, why not vegans do ( with the whole line of PETA ads)
Jeffrey
I’m so tired of the atheist movement. Maybe it’s just me, but so many of its platforms and issues just make everyone look petty and kinda like douchebags.
Kyle
“I say simply, why not vegans do ( with the whole line of PETA ads)”
Please don’t equate all vegans with PETA. A lot of us find them to be somewhat embarassing — also sexist, racist, sensationalist, hypocritical… — and certinally not representative of how the majority of us conduct ourselves.
As for the ad campaign, it just seems…trite. I somehow doubt that when someone if a person was to suddenly lose their faith, for whatever reason, they’re suddenly going to gain +10 to their fucking skill.
Kyle
And apparently I need to proof read before I hit the Submit button.
clinton
it’s obviously just a cheap imitation of the popular series “(insert name of your group, race, nationality or belief) do it better”, don’t take it too seriously