Honestly.

My home town of San Diego is putting up its own “atheist” billboard that reads, “Don’t Believe in God? You are Not Alone.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, as similar signs have done elsewhere, some people are upset about it. Even angry. You can leave it up to Fox News to find these people and generate a “controversy” around them. Take for example their reporting of this billboard, with the almost-humorous-if-it-wasn’t-so-sad title Freeway billboard has controversial message. You can read the short article or just view the video version of it below:

Fox claims that the billboard has a controversial message. Of course, there is nothing at all controversial about the fact that if you do not believe in God then you are not alone. Such a message is no more controversial than its opposite, “Do you believe God? You are not alone.” So at least in that sense, the title is just plain stupid.

While there may be nothing inherently controversial about the message what is really interesting (or aggravating) is a few of the featured reactions to the astonishing revelation that some people who live in their midsts don’t believe in God:

“I’m a Christian, and I was raised to believe in God,” Jessica Wleh of Mission Valley said after being shown a mockup of the billboard. “If I saw something like this, I would be very angry, extremely angry!”

Angry about what, Jessica? That some people do not agree with your religious views? Why should that make you angry? After all, you claim to believe in God because you were raised to believe in God. Shouldn’t you instead be angry at your parents for dictating to you what you should and should not believe?

And then we have Brian, who wins the award for the most ironic statement:

“It’s real negative,” Brian Burns of North Park told Fox 5. “I think that’s half of the reason of what’s wrong with the world now: people like that with these crazy beliefs.”

Brian, I agree holding crazy beliefs is a real negative in our world. What crazy beliefs to atheists hold, now? That a man can walk on water and rise from the dead? Nope. That God is One but also Three? Nope. That people possess disembodied spirits that will either be rewarded or punished after death depending on ones willingness to suspend disbelief and accept Iron Age mythologies as true? Nope. That a cracker will invisibly change into the flesh and blood of Jesus if you utter the correct Latin phrases over it? Nope again. Gee, Brian, maybe you are criticizing the wrong group of people!