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From the page: "When comedy writer and journalist Ariane Sherine joked back in June on Comment is Free about atheists chipping in to get ads on London buses to counter those with the off-putting Bible quotes ("When the son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"), she... more
Reviewed by Tymethief Oct 21 2008, 02:13pm ( 23 reviews ) • newhumanist.org.uk
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Rated by Kirro on Jul 07, 11:50pm
This all fine; I have nothing against advertising atheism. If theists are going to advertise their religion, we might as well play ball. But I've heard about this from about 10 different sites. It's old news.
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Rated by Tymethief on Oct 21 2008, 2:13pm
From the page: "When comedy writer and journalist Ariane Sherine joked back in June on Comment is Free about atheists chipping in to get ads on London buses to counter those with the off-putting Bible quotes ("When the son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"), she didn't think the idea would actually take off. Indeed, as she says in our forthcoming diary (you'll have to wait for that one), she only called the bus ads company for a quote so she had the punchline for her article. Four months later and Ariane, with the support of the British Humanist Association and a certain Professor R. Dawkins, has just officially launched the Atheist Bus Campaign. Here's the deal â€" for £5,550 you can put an ad on 30 London buses for 4 weeks, which if you do the maths means the campaign needs 1,100 people to donate £5 each. And just to make things even better, Richard Dawkins has agreed to match all contributions up to £5,500, so if you all raise that amount the campaign will have £11,000 â€" that's two rounds of 30 buses for 4 weeks."
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Rated by bennytheball on Oct 21 2008, 12:12pm
Nice to see Britain leading the way in what is definitely the most important movement the world will ever see. I just wish the slogan went a little further and said "There almost certainly is no God". Well done the bus company.
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Reviewed by GravyMaximus on Oct 21 2008, 11:48am
Atheism is not a religion. Stop trying to sell it as one.
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Rated by alx429 on Oct 21 2008, 11:44am
Ah yes, maybe the world is finally start coming around to the realization of the absurdity of organized religion.
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Rated by pietedoy on Oct 21 2008, 11:35am
If you'd try that in the southern USA you would probably be lynched or something...
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Rated by Nina14 on Oct 21 2008, 10:59am
About time. Glad that I live in a country where free speech is still allowed - more or less!
