Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Three atheists and an agnostic bus: Ariane Sherine, Richard Dawkins and Polly Toynbee. (Photo: Leon Neal/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)


We have 2,000 years of experience with our version of the "Good News"


This campaign is as lame as those of Julian the Apostate and the French revolutionaries such as Robespierre. At least they were trying to create a virtuous society. When the Marquis de Sade and Nietzsche arrived they were both anti-God and anti-morality as well (at least as Christians understood conscience and the moral obligations among all people). The ideological descendants of the latter two have launched their very own propaganda fide.


New York Times: The Atheist Bus Drove In on the Web
and Atheists Send a Message, on 800 British Buses


...And then she thought, how about putting some atheist messages on the bus, as a corrective to the religious ones?


And so were planted the seeds of the Atheist Bus Campaign, an effort to disseminate a godless message to the greater public. When the organizers announced the effort in October, they said they hoped to raise a modest $8,000 or so.


But something seized people’s imagination. Supported by the scientist and author Richard Dawkins, the philosopher A. C. Grayling and the British Humanist Association, among others, the campaign raised nearly $150,000 in four days. Now it has more than $200,000, and on Tuesday it unveiled its advertisements on 800 buses across Britain.


“There’s probably no God,” the advertisements say. “Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”



I believe in the free expression of religion, so let them even say "There is no God." and let there be a good exchange of views about the meaning of life and all those transcendent questions and see which version of the "Good News" is going to win the hearts and minds of the world.

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