Atheist bus ad campaign launches in the U.K., supported by the British Humanist Association and Dr. Richard Dawkins. And us!
Awesome. Awesome. A bus-side ad campaign launched today in the U.K. featuring the atheist slogan: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
Writer Ariane Sherine of the Guardian’s Comment is Free website hatched the idea after being irritated by the “Jesus will toast you in Hellfire eternally” ads from Jesussaid.org, a website not even worth visiting (so don’t). Investigating transit advertising practices, Ariane joked that atheists might have a chance to fight back.
As far as I can tell, you can buy a “bendy bus streetliner” for only £23,400 for two weeks.
Which means that if there are 4,680 atheists reading this and we all contribute £5, it’s possible that we can fund a much-needed atheist London bus ad with the slogan: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and get on with your life.”
A joke that sparked a flood of donations. That brought the British Humanist Association to volunteer to administer the donations. That got Dr. Richard Dawkins on board with a matched gift of £5500. That’s currently raised £49,560, way more than the group expected. The extra cash means inside-the-bus ads are within reach as well.
Professor Dawkins was more than happy to lend his stamp of approval:
“Religion is accustomed to getting a free ride — automatic tax breaks, unearned ‘respect’ and the right not to be ‘offended’, the right to brainwash children. Even on the buses, nobody thinks twice when they see a religious slogan plastered across the side. This campaign to put alternative slogans on London buses will make people think — and thinking is anathema to religion.
60 buses will carry the ads for 4 weeks. You can donate to the campaign here, and for the next 4 weeks every Pay Pal donation that comes through Topic Agnostic will be redirected to the Atheist Bus Campaign.
Because it rules.
I donated
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Posted by Car Wheel on January 18th, 2010 4:29 amThanks for including God in your add!
As Paul put’s it:
Philippians 1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
HalleluYAH!
Posted by christianboy on March 10th, 2010 11:19 pm