An online group called Christians Against Dinosaurs has denounced a popular T. rex statue that sits outside a local McDonald’s restaurant in Tucson, Arizona and is calling for its removal.
“Please help! This McDonald’s has this dinosaur and refuse to remove it!” the group recently posted on Facebook. “This is in Tucson, Arizona. Call the manager and demand the removal of this blasphemy!”
The post also included the restaurant’s address and phone number.
OK, so what the hell is Christians Against Dinosaurs anyway?
How about we take this to the next level?
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Well, according to its official website, is an anti-dinosaur group that does not believe the pre-historic reptiles ever existed. Instead, they think they are a hoax cooked up by scientists, possibly as a liberal plot against religion.
If atheists truly valued science and reason so much then why are they so threatened by where our investigations might lead?
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Is the group real? Is it a parody? Nobody knows for sure. But they insist they’re 100% serious and that they 100% want the T. rex taken down, damn it!
“Yes, the dinosaur should go,” group member and Tucson resident Josh Brown tells the Arizona Daily Star. “Unless they’re willing to compromise with a plaque of some kind stating that it’s a fictional character.”
A spokesperson for Christians Against Dinosaurs adds, “We’re fed up with everybody acting like the people of Tucson are imbeciles and we want to help. Having a big dinosaur outside a cultural hub like McDonald’s makes Tucsonians look like they’re mentally deficient and that isn’t right.”
The group also took offense at claims it’s meant to be satirical, insisting that they are not science-deniers. They just do not believe in dinosaurs, OK?
“We simply recognize that dinosaurs are not supported by anything scientific,” the group wrote. “They’re a parlor game that got out of hand.”
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A spokesperson for the McDonald’s franchisee, Dias Management Inc., says the dinosaur, which was installed in 1994, right around the time of the first “Jurassic Park” movie, isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, calling it a “Tucson landmark.”
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Mister P
I thought these whack a doodles had saddles for dinosaurs. Since they believe the earth isn’t that old, people must have ridden dinosaurs.
Someone should tell them that god is a fictional character.
Chrisk
Honestly it’s about the only way to make it work. The Creation Museum in KY has made an attraction out of Jesus hanging out with the dinosaurs.
Heywood Jablowme
@ChrisK: That can’t be right. Everyone knows dinosaurs went extinct because they were too big to fit on Noah’s Ark!
Chrisk
I can believe it since they get so bent out of shape when people bring up evolution. It must really be weird when your whole belief system can so easily be disproven.
Liquid Silver
Do they also protest antibiotics? Didn’t think so.
Now mind you, I’d prefer if the T-Rex were a bit more accurate, but it’s still fun.
WSnyder
These are the former Flat Earther’s that went looking for the ‘Edge’…Found It…and Went OVER it [in their heads].
Cam
Part of this is our fault and media’s fault.
Media wants a freakshow so badly that for decades they sought out these crazies to put on the air, and we were told we have to always be respectful of “People”s religion” even though many times their “religions” didn’t respect anybody back.
Time to go back to the days when these people weren’t on TV and just their family’s had to deal with them.
ShowMeGuy
Amen; and Amen again.
Paul Nadolski
News flash: most of the Bible is nothing more than the mythology of the people who lived in Israel 5,000 years ago, and as such, it is no more true than the mythologies of the ancient Romans, ancient Egyptians, ancient Greeks, etc. Wake up. You don’t need liberal scientists to disprove the Bible, the facts speak for themselves.
As Neil deGrasse Tyson said, “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
Mack
The Bible is a book made up of stories written by men with racial, bigotry and hatred. They’re the same type people that we have today in the form of Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and so forth. Unfortunately too many of the dimwits “thinks” that God wrote the Bible, that it’s his “word”, well I’ve also heard “His word” from drunks on skid row spouting “God” too.
radiooutmike
You know, I really can’t get into a mindset of seeing a T. Rex statue and calling it blasphemy, seriously.
They’re gonna have a lot more problems if they want to tear down everything that is not based on “science” or they don’t believe is real.
Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck aren’t real so that kills Disney. Those Veggies Tales haracters aren’t real, they should go as well.
Jvan
If they are against blasphemy then they sould demand all images and statues of white jesus to be taken down as well. Or do they believe that a man could be white in the middle east 2000 years ago?
Invader7
I’m starting a new group : Sane People FOR Dinosaurs !!! The Anti Dinosaur people are certifiable bat shit CRAZY !!
AZ71
I live in Tucson and this dinosaur is a local landmark. He is decorated up for different holidays and most recently he’s been wearing a big mask for the pandemic. So its not going anywhere. And these christian protestors are batshit crazy. Are they going to picket every natural history museum in the world?
amanwithanedge
more BS from AMERICAN FAKE CHRISTIANS.
Tombear
The three Christian lies are serpents talk, the world is only 6,000 years old and man walked the earth with dinosaurs. I’m not going to mention people are NOT born gay.
alexpof
what shocks me the most is the fact they consider McDonalds a cultural hub
ShowMeGuy
Sometimes we must remind ourselves that a lot of people have really low standards.
Iona Lexiss
I truly think that was the best part of the story. #LOL
dinard38
Yeah. I got a chuckle out of that as well.
WSnyder
Dinosaur Scientist: We need a plan now! The threat from this meteor is real and if we fail to act it could destroy everything and everyone!
Dinosaur Religious Fanatic: You scientists are just Left-Wing, end-of-the-world know-it-alls! We’ve endured for millions of years and God is on our side! The Gospel says but you faith in God and he will protect us! Next thing you’re gonna tell us is that ‘and the meek shall inherit the Earth’ means those dumb, furry mammals!
sjosephs
And if you didn’t think that this election is THE most important election in generations, think again. If tRump is elected, these jesus freaks will be going after everything they find offensive. VOTE.
barryaksarben
Ill be tthey only started this when they put a mask on it as that goes against their GOD – Donald J Trump. They are the American Taliban and just as dangerous and stupid. I am as sure as they are that Jesus NEVER existed and that he is just a right wing parlor game. At least with the dinosaurs we have bones and there is NO proof there was ever a jesus except that bible that wasnt written until 1776 by King James to stop the AMeican Revolution by the masons
Iona Lexiss
Great. Now, modern-day “Christian” dinosaurs are complaining about real dinosaurs. #FakeChristians
HenryCameron
What I have learned in 2020. Any statue that offends anybody for any reason, no matter how nonsensical or ill-informed, must be removed. If the statue is not removed voluntarily, the accepted next-step practice is to engage in a mostly-peaceful protest in which the offended persons assemble in large numbers, take control of the area, tear down the statue, and torch the business for good measure.
CurtisIsTheOne
“I” find it VERY interesting that the acronym for this group is “CAD” Christians Against Dinosaurs. Next thing up there will be “Christians Against Defecation” because WHY NOT? /|\