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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>Atheist buses denying God's existence take to streets<div align='center'>
Atheist adverts declaring that "there's probably no God" have been placed on 800 buses around Britain after an unprecedented fundraising campaign.
Organisers originally hoped to put the message on just a handful of London buses, as an antidote to posters put up by religious groups which they claimed were "threatening eternal damnation" to non-believers.
But after the campaign received high-profile support from the prominent atheist Prof Richard Dawkins and the British Humanist Association, the modest £5,500 target was met within minutes and more than £140,000 has now been donated since the launch in October.
Enough money has now been raised to place the message – "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life" – on 200 bendy buses in the capital for a month, with the first ones taking to the streets .
A further 600 buses carrying the adverts will be seen by passengers and passers-by in cities across England, Wales and Scotland, from Aberdeen and Dundee to York, Coventry, Swansea and Bristol.
In addition, two large LCD screens bearing the atheist message have been placed in Oxford Street, central London, while 1,000 posters containing quotes from well-known non-believers will be placed on Underground trains for two weeks starting on Monday.
They feature lines doubting the existence of God, and celebrating the natural world, written by Albert Einstein, Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Adams and Emily Dickinson.[/b][/quote]
Full story is available from the Telegraph. Well, I must say, I'm overjoyed. The money could have gone to better causes sure, but equally, so could the money spent by religious groups who chose to advertise for God.
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Fuck the pigs in my city, they can burn in hell. I'll kill a hundred fuckin hootahs before they take me to jail!
Well, hey why not. It's not like the religious folks don't have their tours, conventions etc.
Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I saw this a couple of days ago and i thought of you, Trionix. I thought about posting about it, but knew you'd probably do it.
Is having a God a cause of worry anyway?
True beauty is an exchange, not an observation. - Lucid Rog
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isnt it insanely hypocritical of them to try and spread atheism and put shit like that everywhere in public? i mean i know what their getting at with the whole "God's name is everywhere so take this!". but seriously, it just makes atheists come off as hypocritical ignorant hippies. this sure as hell isnt going to help their cause.
i really dont care about any of this mumbojumbo because i believe in free speech but i just dont think their going about it the right way,
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When it comes to pink butterflies i could give a flying fuck.
Awards: Hippies usually believe in crystal healing, cosmic vibrations and good and bad karma, man. Atheists certainly do not.
Payaso, on the use of the word 'probably': click here.
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That's quality. I'm not against the idea of God or anything but this is one of the best and funniest uses of advertising space I've ever seen.
The broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes... Adolf Hitler
I find this oddly entertaining. I love the part about stop worrying and start enjoying your life. There's something refreshing about the way they're trying to get their point across but they're not doing it in a demanding, critical way. It makes you want to listen to their opinion more, even if you don't agree.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gone @ Jan 8 2009, 07:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>What's hypocritical about it?isnt it insanely hypocritical of them to try and spread atheism and put shit like that everywhere in public? i mean i know what their getting at with the whole "God's name is everywhere so take this!". but seriously, it just makes atheists come off as hypocritical ignorant hippies. this sure as hell isnt going to help their cause.
i really dont care about any of this mumbojumbo because i believe in free speech but i just dont think their going about it the right way,[/b]
I want a poster!!
I think we had posters promoting jews on our subway station walls two summers ago. People were pissed and the ads disappeared fairly fast. Gotta love freedom of speech.
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