Graffiti on an Alpha Course billboard in Hammersmith, London
”There’s probably no God” will soon be emblazoned on buses throughout London, as The Atheist Bus Campaign, an £11,000 fundraising effort, has hit its target in just a few hours.
The Campaign, organised by The British Humanist Association, in collaboration with Richard Dawkins (who generously agreed to match all donations up to £5,500), has settled on the slogan “THERE’S PROBABLY NO GOD - NOW STOP WORRYING AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE”. The slogan aims to provide a reassuring antidote to the Christian adverts that “threaten eternal damnation” to passengers.
From The Register:
The organisers say the aim of the advertising campaign will be to “brighten people’s days on the way to work, help raise awareness of atheism in the UK, and hopefully encourage more people to come out as atheists. We can also counter the religious adverts which are currently running on London buses, and help people think for themselves.”
I, for one, would be glad to see this replace the gruesome ubiquity of Romans 6:23 on London buses. At the time of writing, donations have already topped £15,000.
Update: The campaign has now collected over £100,000.
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13 responses
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Lots of content, but worth the read. Keep it coming.
Methinks you might be right. Does the one who shouts the loudest win ?
If you changed two words, ie ‘probably no’ to ‘a’ it reads
“THERE’S A GOD - NOW STOP WORRYING AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE”.
-that would be a good message. Perhaps some creative spray painters could get onto that.
Just a thought, what’s the betting these buses won’t be going through Finsbury Park at about 1230 on a Friday?
This sort of thing is no less annoying than religious ads on billboards or buses. I don’t believe in any gods but if other people want to believe fairytales, I’m quite prepared to let them as long as they don’t impose their beliefs on anyone else. The same should be true of atheists.
It’s not going to change anyone’s mind anyway, so why bother.
I donated the niggardly sum of ten quid. Credit crunch, y’know.
Veritas, who shouts the loudest certainly gets political attention - witness the pandering to religious groups that goes on. And if atheism is, as some theists claim, a religion, when can we have those lovely tax breaks and some state schools to run?
The campaign has now collected a staggering £90,000.
http://www.justgiving.com/atheistbus
“Permission to shout ‘Huzzah!’ in a very loud and irritating voice, sir?”
Valdemar - in this sort of thing, £90,000 is a piddling sum. You have my permission to shout “complete failure!”
Fabio
Just thought you might like to know that the “piddling sum” is now at £114,000. Even if they managed to raise a million I suspect that your narrow-minded vision would still deem it a failure.
Atheists and Gnostics are right in most of their thinking
It has been common among religious believers to look with misgiving to atheists and Gnostics, and to think that they are mistaken; however, in many instances the opposite is the truth; some religious beliefs are not just irrelevant, but baseless. The “God” of main line traditions simply does not exist. I accepted the challenge of finding the One who may be recognized even by Gnostics and atheists: the Existence itself, “All-That-Is.” If something is there, that is God. Look at the book “Christianity Reformed From ist Roots - A life centered in God” (Amazon.com). I am confident that some of your friends will be relieved of the illusion, as I did myself.
Jairo Mejia, M. Psych., Santa Clara University
Retired Episcopal Priest
Carmel Valley, California
http://www.mbay.net/~jmejia/Grudzen.htm
http://www.mbay.net/~jmejia/Churcher.htm
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