Atheist flag?

[Ladewig]

While researching some material on flags, I stumbled across this flag. The site questions the authenticity of the flag.

Have you ever seen this flag used?

 

[Keneke]

Looks like something from MSPaint. Ick.

 

[evildave]

http://www.atheists.org/ has a little atom thingy that looks like an 'A'.

Sounds like the discordian call, "Anarchists of the world, UNITE!"

Not to be confused with "Masochists of the world, UNTIE!"

 

[T'ai Chi]

.."thus releasing the planet."

HAHAHAHA AHAH AHAHA HAHAHA!!!

 

[Nyarlathotep]

.."thus releasing the planet."

HAHAHAHA AHAH AHAHA HAHAHA!!!

While I find the whole idea of an "Atheist Flag" to be about as useful as a stale Tic-Tac, I am curious as to what you find wrong with that particular bit. All groups engage in hyperbole and blatant self-promotion, why should atheists be any different?

 

[Yahweh]

http://www.atheists.org/ has a little atom thingy that looks like an 'A'.

Sounds like the discordian call, "Anarchists of the world, UNITE!"

Not to be confused with "Masochists of the world, UNTIE!"

Should that be "Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!"

 

[T'ai Chi]

While I find the whole idea of an "Atheist Flag" to be about as useful as a stale Tic-Tac, I am curious as to what you find wrong with that particular bit. All groups engage in hyperbole and blatant self-promotion, why should atheists be any different?

I guess I don't see the whole chain thing like they do. I see the chain as being exxagerated.

I also find it incredibly egotistical that the A in the flag is more prominent than the Earth. My philosophy would make the Earth the thing that stands out the most in the picture; not the A and not the chain.

 

[epepke]

While I find the whole idea of an "Atheist Flag" to be about as useful as a stale Tic-Tac, I am curious as to what you find wrong with that particular bit. All groups engage in hyperbole and blatant self-promotion, why should atheists be any different?

Dunno why he doesn't like it, but to me it looks like a big A springing forth from the Earth to break some Alien chain.

There's a certain aesthetic to flag design, and this ain't it.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

I guess I don't see the whole chain thing like they do. I see the chain as being exxagerated.

I also find it incredibly egotistical that the A in the flag is more prominent than the Earth. My philosophy would make the Earth the thing that stands out the most in the picture; not the A and not the chain.

Yes it's a bit of hyperbole, like I said. It happens when anyone tries to promote a cause unfortunately. I think it is a good illustration though, of why an "atheist flag" is a dumb idea. A flag is meant to be a uniting symbol for a group. While many atheists might liken belief in god to a Cain, many others would not. Other's fall in between. Some might agree with you about the A (for example, I find it a bit too reminiscent of the sword through the Earth symbol used by the mirror universe evil federation in that one Star Trek episode), others might not.

Atheists in general are united by only one thing and that one thing is a non-belief at that (and further, half the time you can't even get a group of them to agree even on the particulars of that non-belief (i.e. do we not believe in God or believe that there is no God?). Given that, I seriously doubt that you could find more than a handful of atheists who would accept any given symbolism as representative of "the cause". I doubt there is even a lot of agreement whether or not there ought to BE a cause.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Dunno why he doesn't like it, but to me it looks like a big A springing forth from the Earth to break some Alien chain.

There's a certain aesthetic to flag design, and this ain't it.

Quite true. It looks like the designer spent all of fiteen minutes thinking it up.

 

[Bottle or the Gun]

While researching some material on flags, I stumbled across this flag. The site questions the authenticity of the flag.

Have you ever seen this flag used?

Yes, at trekker conventions. It's for the pow's that escaped Rura Penthe.

 

[Ladewig]

I find it a bit too reminiscent of the sword through the Earth symbol used by the mirror universe evil federation in that one Star Trek episode), others might not.

Your observation started me thinking about what 21st century people would look like in the mirror evil universe (MEU). We already know that Spock would sport and beard and Kirk would stop wearing sleeves.

Let's see. Michael Moore would look...dead. Bill Clinton would look more unctious. Donald Trump would have much better hair and the trademark "you're fired" would be replaced with "you're dead.". GWB would have an even more impressive smirk. The Democratic candidates would carry switchblades which they would whip out whenever anyone questioned their proposals. Various other world leaders would simply have more scars and maybe some Hitler moustaches. Madonna would be a power-hungry, continually-morphing, attention-seeking whore who would do anything to stay in the spotlight.

I'm trying to picture what Cheney would look like in the MEU, but all I get is an image of what he looks like now.

 

[Libertarian]

Too busy. Too many colors. (for a flag)

 

[evildave]

Should that be "Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!"

Something more like

Slysdexisc of teh wrold, UNTIE!

I would think.

 

[T'ai Chi]

Atheists in general are united by only one thing and that one thing is a non-belief at that (and further, half the time you can't even get a group of them to agree even on the particulars of that non-belief (i.e. do we not believe in God or believe that there is no God?). Given that, I seriously doubt that you could find more than a handful of atheists who would accept any given symbolism as representative of "the cause". I doubt there is even a lot of agreement whether or not there ought to BE a cause.

It also reminds me of the Scarlet Letter.

 

[Keneke]

Madonna would be a power-hungry, continually-morphing, attention-seeking whore who would do anything to stay in the spotlight.

The more things change...