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Response to comment [from a Christian]: "What I would like to know, is why it says they are too old for fairy tales but they are writing to Santa to talk about that..."

atheists who made that billboard up."

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "And what would an "atheistic" gathering have as its object for celebration?"

Now I'll wait for the first of them to come and explain to their intellectual inferiors that it's a joke and how we just don't get it.

Granite

None of you guys seem to have much of a sense of humor and or irony.

Response to comment [from other]: ""That little girl on the billboard symbolizes the atheist" - American Atheists President David Silverman. No TOL atheist sees a problem with this?"

It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble (Lk 17:12).

Response to comment [from other]: "It is fascinating to watch, isn't it? Given the reactions among Christians here, I'd say we need more of these campaigns from atheists. It looks to me like the Christians have just a bit too much of a sense of privilege."

Membership has its privileges.

"Privileges of believers: access to God (Rom. 5:2), Christ’s intercession (Heb. 7:25, 26), eternal life (Jn. 17:2, 3), growth assured (1 Pet. 2:2), intercession of the Spirit (Rom. 8:16, 17), kinship with Christ (Heb. 2:10–14), membership in God’s kingdom (1 Cor. 6:9–11), names written in Book of Life (Rev. 20:15), partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4), reconciled to God (Rom. 5:10), suffering with Christ (Acts 5:41), trials overcome (1 Pet. 1:6–8), victorious living (Rom. 8:37–39)." Thomas Nelson Publishers. (1996). Nelson’s quick reference topical Bible index (p. 506). Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

"I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes (Pr 1:26).

Response to comment [from a Christian]: [Mocked Christians have no sense of humour] "... Which has nothing to do with humor, and everything to do with spite and bile."

If God is not just, God is not good (Deut. 32:4).

"Pr 1:26, 27 calamity … terror … destruction … distress and anguish. All these terms describe the severe troubles of divine judgment. When sinners who have rejected wisdom call on God in the day of judgment, God will respond to their distress with derision.
1:28–32 God’s rejection of sinners is carefully detailed. This is the aspect of God’s wrath expressed in His abandonment of sinners. See notes on Rom. 1:24–28. No prayers or diligent seeking will help them (cf. 8:17).
1:28–30 I will not answer. God will withdraw His invitation to sinners because they have rejected Him. Note the rejection of knowledge (v. 22), fear of the Lord (vv. 7–9), counsel (v. 25), and reproof (v. 23).
1:31 eat the fruit of their own way. The ultimate punishment is God’s giving a people up to the result of their wickedness. Cf. Rom. 1:24–28." MacArthur, J., Jr. (Ed.). (1997). The MacArthur Study Bible (electronic ed., p. 878). Nashville, TN: Word Pub.

"Make 'Em Laugh" ~ Singin' in the Rain