Billy Ray Cyrus Scared of Atheist Sign

This is hilarious! I live a minute from that sign. It’s the Glendale 2 FWY.

Omg that gave me a good laugh. It’s pretty funny that a sign simply stating that an atheist group is helping out by cleaning litter makes it the “highway of darkness” and is a symbol of how Satan is going to attack you. Yeah… I’m sure those evil atheists with their helpful attitudes are really just trying to send Satan chasing after your car down the highway.

It’s most funny because his daughter is a dirty skank.

Oh no! They’ve figured out our DEVIOUS schemes! Code red! Code red! Deploy the invisible pink unicorns!

Seriously, how crazy do you have to be?

O…M…G…totally goes to show how completely screwed up the religious are…*shakes head* mr cyrus needs to be more concerned about whats going on in his family than what a few enlightened people are doing cleaning up a hwy

Skank or not, at least it appears that Miley is a bit more open-minded than he is! And apparently smarter, but given the drivel he’s spouting, I could say the same about my goldfish.

I wonder if Miley is an atheist. Her being so interested in the sign each day might have lead to questioning atheism. I’m sure if I were in her situation my parents would look for something stupid to grasp onto and blame. Oh wait, they still do…all the time.

It’s mind-boggling how weird people can be. You’d think he’d think Satan was the industry that has lured his daughter into the lifestyle she’s promoting but no, it’s somehow the fault of atheists who dislike litter?

Crazy.

Seems reality is too much for his ache-y break-y brain.

I’ve always wanted to see someone at one of these film or music award ceremonies stand up and thank Satan the Prince of Darkness. Oh wait wasn’t that Ricky Gervais the other week..? 😉

It’s most funny because his daughter is a dirty skank.

So a young girl doing what lots of young people her age do is a dirty skank for doing so. Brilliant reasoning. Girl paries and has fun; she must be some kind of nasty skank because she’s not doing it with you, Zac. Tall me, did you have a point you were trying to make?

Fame is capable of ruining adult lives, let alone the lives of children – moreso when the only defense against the assault on their selves/values is a sprinkling of water and belief in God.

It’s not a magic formula, people.

And, Billy Ray, really? Who has had more contact and guidance with Miley? You, or a sign on the highway?

@Silent Service:

So a young girl doing what lots of young people her age do is a dirty skank for doing so. Brilliant reasoning. Girl paries and has fun; she must be some kind of nasty skank because she’s not doing it with you, Zac. Tall me, did you have a point you were trying to make?

I suspect Zac’s only point was that Ms. Cyrus is not the paragon of virtue that her father would make her out to be (or believe her to be), and not to imply that such behaviors are an immediate lifetime membership in the dirty skank club.

So a section of highway sponsored by atheists means that Satan is attacking you? The wholes in that logic are staggering.

Didn’t you know? Clean highways are the devil’s play things.

Seriously though Cyrus is clearly living through his daughter since he had like one big hit and that was it. It would be interesting if Miley came out as an atheist. It would be even more funny if she came out as an atheist while working for Disney. I can just hear the righteous indignation coming from the religious fundies over that. I mean the same people that complain about the gay day at Disney World

@Larry, LOL, nice. Your creation?

Yes Billy, your strained family life is all the fault of Satan and his representatives on Earth, who deviously disguise themselves as civic minded atheists caring for our public spaces in order to avoid detection.

Your family problems couldn’t possibly have to do with the fact that you took your daughter to hollywood to become a child star, in an industry known for destroying the psyches of children.

I mean, it couldn’t possibly be damaging to a family at all to respond to crisis by giving interviews to GQ instead of, say, seeking family therapy.

You are a bigot and a fool.

This is full on superstition. It is no different than believing in the “Evil Eye” or a Voodoo hex.

I suspect Zac’s only point was that Ms. Cyrus is not the paragon of virtue that her father would make her out to be (or believe her to be), and not to imply that such behaviors are an immediate lifetime membership in the dirty skank club.

Is Miley a paragon? No. Did anybody suggest that she was? No, not even Billy Ray (though I’m sure he wishes that she was). Any of that warrant calling Miley a skank? No. Relevance to the issue under discussion? Not much. If Miley were not rich and famous she’d probably be chucking bear bongs and a local community college and acting just as juvenile, but with less press attention and a cheaper wardrobe.

Why some people idolize entertainment personalities is beyond me. Why some people have to demonize them is just as beyond me. It’s useless noise and adds nothing to the discussion. Zac’s comment wasn’t there to point out Miley’s flaws; it was just a sad character assassination and useless noise.

Yeah the father of the Smiley Virus was happy to take Disney’s money all those years he and his daughter were on that show, but now that there’s not any more money to be made he complains that it ruined his life. So it’s not surprising that he has to find another target to blame for his family’s problems. It’s not like he could admit that he sucks as a father.

lol@ Merideth. Awesome sign. Can I get on of those for my driveway?

Satan: Attacking believers with garbage bags?

srsly? he’s IN the biz himself (showbiz), for cryin’ out loud! achy breaky brain indeed!

dang, he just went to the bottom of the ladder in my mind. possible red-neck? ya tink?

Billy Ray was not saying that the atheists cleaning up the road is what scared him. I think there is a difficulty communicating between atheists and believers because people like Billy Ray have an idea in their head and say it like everyone else is on there page (or they don’t want to lose their job in hollywood) and then atheists take it at face value and criticize “logic”, like Billy Ray was defending his dissertation not talking about his experiences in Hollywood. Hollywood is a strange place and the entertainment industry attacks the values that a lot of good people have, whether the believe in god, are religious or whatever. The attack on family values and the over sexualization of youth….like on his daughters show…(while simultaneous suppressing the foundations of genuine happiness, i.e. not just buy a bunch of shit you don’t need all the time)…thats what billy was upset about. He relates it to godlessness…you might relate to a lack of ability to rationalize the consequences of our collective actions. Either way, he saw this sign as a symbol of the god-less culture of hollywood. Atheists may want to disagree with me (idk, i’ve never met one…haha, jk) just because I believe reality is much more than what our limited senses have convinced us it is (trust me Im not going to try and justify myself by reading from the bible, or telling you your going to hell, honestly you’re probably not…if there is one) but the stuff that goes on in hollywood and in our entertainment is steering the country in an ugly direction. That’s what you should take away from this, not that Billy Ray uses over dramatic analogies without the balls to really criticize the entertainment industry he relies on.

Well, if his daughter was a skank, then the sign and atheists clearly would be to blame. *gak*

What a freak. I bet some of the nicest people he knows are atheists. And he hates people who volunteer to clean a patch of highway because he figures, without even KNOWING them, that they are evil?

Maybe if there were no litterbugs there would be no atheists. This seems more logical than BRC’s hypothesis.

You know how it is. When you sally forth to do battle with Satan, first slipping on the Armour of Baptism(Defense +10, Intelligence -25), Satan ambushes you with cunningly placed highway signs about keeping the roads clean.

People who look for Satan anywhere generally find him everywhere.

@Bob, if I may read into Whit’s explanation, it’s a little like saying “that’s so Gay”. It’s not like you really think that the person/object/concept being called gay IS gay. It’s not even (in some cases) that you even think being gay is bad. You take a word that you know to be insulting and you apply it to something or someone that you wish to make fun of. The problem is that in doing so you are reinforcing the bigotry that there is something wrong with being gay.

When he called Miley a “skank”, Zac used a term that he knew to be insulting because he dislikes Miley or, more likely, her father. I’m betting he didn’t think of it so profoundly as to think “Yeah, a girl who sleeps with guys is terrible!”, but the societal rejection of female sexuality, especially young female sexuality, is still there.

I hope that made some kind of sense. I also hope this is the last time I ever feel I have to defend Miley Cyrus. Ever.

I suspect Zac’s only point was that Ms. Cyrus is not the paragon of virtue that her father would make her out to be (or believe her to be), and not to imply that such behaviors are an immediate lifetime membership in the dirty skank club.

Wait! There’s a club?? Why was I not told??

If Miley were not rich and famous she’d probably be chucking bear bongs and a local community college and acting just as juvenile, but with less press attention and a cheaper wardrobe.

It is now my life goal to see a “Bear Bong!” That must be awesome!!

On a … less silly… note, how much ego do you have to have to think that out of 6 billion people satan is personally attacking you?

@Mike, well here you go.

Actually, that’s not what mostly came up when I google-imaged the term, but my labmates were looking at me oddly so I closed the window in a hurry.

Highway to darkness?, when your daughter was making $30 million a year, you didn’t realize it was the high way to darkness then, but now that things aren’t going your way, you blame an atheist sign. Just take responsibility for your failure as a father “Billy ray Virus” and stop acting like the world is against you.

SkeptiMommy,

It has been explained to me as follows from some evangelical Christians. (all evangelical Christians may not hold these exact premises)

1. We are all going to hell unless we accept Jesus.
2. The devil is real and in a race with God for our souls for some kind of big ultimate upcoming battle.
3. The devil is quite crafty and can get people to do stuff even without them realizing it.
4. The atheist proposition (including that the above points are just make-believe) serves the agenda of the devil. In fact, the devil may be making people atheists. If so, then atheists are tools of the devil (even if unwittingly).
5. Therefore, atheists must be resisted just as the devil is resisted. For all practical purposes, they are one and the same.

I want to make a billboards that says
“Dear Christians,
BOO!
Love,
The Atheists”

The sign is not evil, nor are the people who are helping to pick up the highway. i would also like to point out that Billy Ray Cyrus was not necessarily that these people or their actions are evil either.
No, i think that he was merely saying that the sign reminds him that Satan is everywhere and that he will attack anyone who follows God actively. Like a string on a finger, this sign just serves as a reminder – it implies nothing else.

Someone earlier was saying they can’t figure out why people are so afraid of atheists. It’s because the church paints nonbelievers as instruments of satan. When I was going to church, that’s exactly what they did…like they made sure you were doubly cautious and guarded around atheists because they were even more dangerous than believers who didn’t know “The Truth.” It’s because the church realizes how big of a threat logic and reason is, so if you can paint nonbelievers as in cahoots with satan, it makes your job that much easier.

Hahahaha, oh wow…

I feel sorry for Miley. She’s just another child star used as a commodity. Young people used as income assets by others should be regarded with compassion.

This bullshit of Billy Ray’s is nothing but contrived publicity seeking. If there’s anything inherently evil in Hollywood, it’s the idea that entertainers need to say anything or do anything to constantly keep their names in the media.

Many decades ago the saying was, “I don’t care what they say about me, as long as they spell my name right.” Now it’s more efficiently expressed by the maxim “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.”

I suspect that Billy Ray’s and/or Miley’s agents told them they need to refresh their exposure.

Billy Ray:
Now that you’ve told the world of your anguish, take Verdugo Boulevard to N. Verdugo Road, go south about 3 miles, and turn left on Mountain Street. Then you can get onto the Glendale Freeway southbound, and you will have missed Satan’s evil sign.

Then your life will get better again.

I don’t know where “yall” are from, but living in the Bible Belt this doesn’t sound abnormal in any way what-so-ever. Most people down here think like this, every aspect of their lives is controlled by their religion (well, except the part about actually following the parts of their religion that they don’t want to). At least Billy Ray seems to have a “pastor-caliber” analysis of his family’s situation. Most people down here don’t even think that deeply (ever), so when they see something against their religion they just get angry, act on that anger, and then go have their pastors tell them what it means in a religious context so they can fit it in with the rest of their mindset.
If there was a sign on the highway down here that mentioned Atheists in a positive light, it would get protested and taken down within months (if legally possible).

Hollywood is a strange place and the entertainment industry attacks the values that a lot of good people have, whether the believe in god, are religious or whatever. The attack on family values and the over sexualization of youth….like on his daughters show…(while simultaneous suppressing the foundations of genuine happiness, i.e. not just buy a bunch of shit you don’t need all the time)…thats what billy was upset about.

Societal values change. None of us now would like Hollywood like it was back in it’s early days. You do know about the Hay’s movie code correct? He is the conservative christian that decided you couldn’t show a kiss longer than 2 seconds, you couldn’t make the bad guys at all sympathetic, you couldn’t show a cow being milked because that is way too sexual. Society changes and has become liberal. Do you really think we would all be better off if we went back to leave it to beaver time?

Also to add but almost 100% of the time someone mentions family values and cries that they are being taken away they are using a holier-than-thou hypocrite. I am sorry, but we all do not have the same values. My family values are different than yours. So what you might want to say instead of family values is “traditional, white, middle class, heterosexual families, with the mom staying home and the dad being the only one to work.”

chucking bear bongs

That is absolutely my best typo ever. I have out done myself with my reliance on spell check. I’m going to be waiting for the day some clever engineer designs and builds a bear bong and uses it as a siege weapon.

Thanks to Mike for calling me out on that beauty and thanks to everybody else for providing a better explanation that I could on why labeling Miley a skank really is inappropriate.

I know that sign very well! I passed it every day going to school and then, years later, going to work.

I was always an unconfirmed atheist, but that sign caused me to investigate. I became an Atheist.

Thank you Atheist United.

So the devil is attacking his family by sending atheists to clean up a section of road on his way to the studio?

As cunning plans go, that’s right up there with attack chinchillas.

As cunning plans go, that’s right up there with attack chinchillas.

I’d say all the way up there with:
1) Steal underpants
2) ???
3) Profit.

Billy Ray:
Now that you’ve told the world of your anguish, take Verdugo Boulevard to N. Verdugo Road, go south about 3 miles, and turn left on Mountain Street. Then you can get onto the Glendale Freeway southbound, and you will have missed Satan’s evil sign.

Heck, if you’re in that neighborhood, stop into ProItalia and check out some beautiful Ducati motorcycles.

I still think the Ducati 1198S is proof that God is good and wants us to be happy, your milage may vary.

I’m not really surprised that Billy Ray said something this dumb. The guy did have a mullet, after all.

This world just keeps on getting stranger and stranger. BRC should, perhaps, lay off the ‘satan sauce’ and do a bit of parenting. I suppose it’s easier to blame a nonexistent entity for his problems than to accept responsibility. It seems to me that that is all that religion does, provide a scapegoat.

Ah, well, the “apocalypse” is supposedly only 12 months away LOL

Best to all,
B.

You mean the guy who wrote “Achy Breaky Heart” is a moron?

Next up:

Klan members are racist and the Pope is Catholic.

FYI Billy didn’t write “Achy Breaky Heart” some fellow he worked with in KY did. And when it became a huge hit, all of us at home couldn’t believe it. Billy literally went from playing
dives in the Tri-State area, to an overnight star with that stupid song. He’ll never live it down, that song, without a doubt is one of the worst songs ever written to become a #1 hit. As a life long professional musician and a native Kentuckian, I offer my sincere apologies for that song. Much better music has come out of eastern KY, but people will never forget that piece of crap.

Don’t quote me on this, Marsha… but I think that song was the inspiration for the Sven character over at Questionable Content. His entire livelihood is based around haphazardly writing crappy country songs that then become massive hits, and he earns royalties off ’em. 😛

Claudia said:

I hope that made some kind of sense. I also hope this is the last time I ever feel I have to defend Miley Cyrus. Ever.

You had me in stitches with that remark. I would also feel at odds defending Ms. Cyrus antics.

On a more serious note (and in light of the recent upbeheaval at this circles) I honestly think we should not be too fast in calling names when a young girl “misbehaves”. As said above, we are playing to stereotypes on boys and girls “proper” behaviours

Cheers from the hippo

It’s kinda sad in a lot of ways. His blindness is awesome. He doesn’t see the helpful work being put in by people who are just a much people as he is. He doesn’t see the way his daughter has been damaged by the industry he and her talents put her into. He doesn’t see the deeply religious faith it requires to believe in no gods as opposed to one or many. He doesn’t see that his daughter’s current silly behaviors aren’t caused by an Adopt-A-Highway sign, but (mostly) by her age. He doesn’t see–apparently–that his gravy train is pulling out of the station and he’s going to have to go back to work. He doesn’t see it’s time to stop whining about his miserable self and do something. To toss a quote (maybe Swift, maybe Heywood; sources vary: There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Yet another reason for me to dislike Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus.

Destiny Hope

Uhm, Henry….what on earth does your post have to do with Billy Ray and his fear of these people doing good work?

Re: blood donations by atheists. Sorry Christians, its too late! I am an atheist & I have given some 66 pints over my life time. . .

Wow, that’s very impressive! I think I’ve only given maybe 10 at this point. Kudos.

So, not only do atheists attack believers by cleaning up the roads we all use, but Satan has specifically targeted Billy Ray Cyrus and his family. Sure…makes sense.

Perhaps it’s the mom in me, but what I find truly sad, after reading the entire article at GQ, is how Billy Ray has abondoned his two younger children. He has left them in the care of estranged wife, all the while lamenting about Miley’s fate.

Maybe he should actually spend more time with the two children, still under 18 years old.

Of course, little Noah Cyrus is already on the path to a trainwreck herself.

Check out this image of her from a Halloween party in 2010.

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@Claudia.

That. is. high-larious!!!

Let it be known that atheists won’t tolerate shitty music by the Cyrus family, and our adopt-a-highway program was a success… HORRAH!

Yet another reason for me to dislike Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus. Why doesn’t he take responsibility for his own actions. The family is money hungry and the daughter has low morals.

I think that what really frightened him was the United part of the sign. As in, ohnoes, there’s more than one atheist, and worse, they are unionized! *gasp*

Thanks for the hearty laugh. Poor Billy and Miley.

My niece LOVES Hannah Montana, so sorry to hear about Miley’s problems. Hopefully with age Miley will mature and become more stable.

“Somewhere along this journey,” he says, “both mine and Miley’s faith has been shaken. That saddens me the most.”

That’s a good thing. When a belief that is not supported by any fact or evidence (faith) is shaken, that is a positive. It is more positive if it is eliminated. I have always failed to understand why anyone would consider faith to be a virtue.

Don’t be afraid Billy, we can’t sic satan on you or your family. He/she/it does not exist. Believe what you want, but you shouldn’t be surprised if everyone does not believe as you do. Grow up.

Don’t let on I told you this… but I actually AM out to destroy his life.

But it’s not because I’m an atheist. It’s just because I’m still holding a grudge against him for that stupid fucking song from 20 years ago.

Shh. Nobody let on.

I get really tired really fast of people trying to equate Atheism with Satanism. Idiots.

It isn’t the atheists who are fond of burning books, bub.

True atheists could care less about religious symbolism or names… The ones that get their panties in a bunch over such things are simply bigots.