Atheists Send a Message, on 800 British Buses »
Posted By memestryker 12 months ago in NewsLONDON; The advertisement on the bus was fairly mild, just a passage from the Bible and the address of a Christian Web site . But when Ariane Sherine, a comedy writer, looked on the Web site in June, she was startled to learn that she and her nonbelieving friends were headed straight to hell, to spend all eternity in torment. She decided to use the same technique to draw attention to her own views.
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"...She thought, how about putting some atheist messages on the bus, as a corrective to the religious ones?
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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.'"
After seeing that Christians advertised on the buses, leading riders to a website that condemned them, she decided to use the buses to spread her own message that there probably is no god.
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