Athiest Symbol Rejected By Capital One, But Jesus Is Preapproved - The Consumerist

[Ian David]

Consumerist reader Mike has a Capital One credit card. He'd hoped to get one of the bank's customizable "Image Cards" printed with a big red "A" for atheism. His initial upload was rejected by Capital One, which sent him a long list of possible reasons. And when he called to appeal, things just more bizarre.

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But why, Mike asks, does the card-making interface on Capital One's own website have 34 photos in a category it labels "Spiritual" and which includes several options to put Christian and Jewish imagery on your card?

There are also categories like "Patriotic" and "Holidays" that likely contain images one could deem as political or religious.

"When I asked about the Spiritual section, the man responded that he didn't have access to the gallery so he couldn't comment on it," Mike tells Consumerist. "He also mentioned that the rules are handed down to them from VISA and Mastercard and that this latest appeal was final."



More:
http://consumerist.com/2012/03/capital-one-says-it-doesnt-allow-religious-images-on-credit-cards-apparently-hasnt-looked-at-its-own.html

[wyldwolf]

1. wow! I'm glad I cancelled my Capital One card late last year

[Curmudgeoness]

2. The hypocrisy makes me want to puke.

In fact, for any Christians who do not "get" why atheists get pissed off, THIS is why.

[BiggJawn]

5. +10

[laconicsax]

6. I can imagine the theist responses to this...

In fact, for any Christians who do not "get" why atheists get pissed off, THIS is why.

"What?"
"I don't get it. What's the big deal?"
"Fundamentalist atheists are just as bad..."
"Stalin...militant atheists...Hitchens..."

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Just imagine what the "bid deal" would be

if they were told that they could not use any symbolism that is religious. OMG, this would be enough to start a war.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

3. We need to start boycotting companies that discriminate against us,

there are forty million Atheists in this country, that's a lot of economic clout!

[salvorhardin]

7. You're thinking of the 2008 ARIS?

Then you're wrong about the 40,000,000 atheists number. That has been widely misreported. Only 0.7% identify as atheists, although 2.3% basically take an atheist position in answers to questions about specific beliefs. Various versions of agnosticism account for about 10%.

So we can only really say that there's between 2.2 million and 7.1 million atheists with any real confidence.

Ref:
http://b27.cc.trincoll.edu/weblogs/AmericanReligionSurvey-ARIS/reports/p1a_belong.html
http://b27.cc.trincoll.edu/weblogs/AmericanReligionSurvey-ARIS/reports/p1b_belief.html

[laconicsax]

4. Everyone knows that vowels are controversial.

A, being the first vowel, is the most controversial (not to mention militant, strident, fundamentalist, and uncompromising).

[OriginalGeek]

8. [e-mail]

I sent them an email asking why they discriminate against atheists and just included a link to the article.

I expect a form letter, non-reply but hey, at least it ties up their email server for a minute.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

9. A journey of a thousand miles starts with one small step,

your email lets them know they have Atheist customers even if they don't want them!

[EvolveOrConvolve]

11. I wonder if they'd let me get a card with

a big giant middle finger on it? Yea, probably not, but fuck you anyway, Capital One. You can suck a fart out of my asshole.