Oh for goodness' sake!

Oh don't you just love the sweet smell of Christmas spirit! What's that? You don't believe in God? Well then no Christmas for you! Oh, wait, you live in America don't you? Ah well then lucky for you we have commodified and idealized Christmas so much that it does not even matter if you believe in God as long as you buy lots and lots of presents and maybe a pine tree for your living room. I bring up the American ideology of commodified X-mas because of the stir created by the bus seen here. The American Humanists Association sprung a cold hard 40k to start up this bus ad campaign in Washington D.C. I myself think it is an excellent ad and defines what America truly should be. Tolerant. We have no problem with the loads of Jesus this and Jesus that billboards along with church marquees threatening passersby with eternal hell if they don't come in and pray their little hearts out. So why is it that we accept these ideologies that churches push but yet strike out against non believers and their ever so counterhegmonic ways? It is said that 92% of people believe in God. That is why. The common ideology in America is to believe in a God, regardless of which religion that is as long as you believe in God you are part of the mainstream ideology. When big bad Bill O'reilly caught a whiff of this sign he took his best shots at an AHA representative on his show but in my opinion only made himself look like an extremely idiotic intolerant imbecile. All in all the sign speaks for itself, it is counterhegmonic to our culture and pushes and ideology much like the recent film Religiolous questioning the authority and possible existence of God. But why do we have to be so up in arms about this ad campaign? Doesn't it really spread an excellent message? Don't be good just out of fear of God's "wrath" instead be good because, well, by golly it's just a good thing to do. Hopefully popular culture absorbs this counterhegemonic artifact soon, that way maybe; just maybe, America will learn to be a little more tolerant to counterhegemonic ideologies.