Taking the bus

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/21/religion-advertising

 

<clicks 'donate' link>

**** me!

"Fundraising target: £5,500.00
Donations so far: £ 55,547.90 "

Looks like support has been considerably greater than they expected
anyway - 55 grand raised in two days! <Adds fiver to the pot>.

 

heh, from their Facebook page:

"Ariane Sherine (creator)"

 

Heh, another >2K in less than an hour!

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"There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

That doesn't look like an Atheist statement surely it's an Agnostic one?

 

Oh, I dunno - I quite like the idea. In fact, only apathy has stopped
me from being exceedingly rich:

At the last census, about 7 million people put "no religion". I reckon
there's a great untapped market there. All I need is a TV front man
for my "No Religion" er...religion and then get him persuade people to
send in, say, a tenner. Even if we only get a 10% uptake, it's a tidy
sum.

Who's in?

 

True, but they had to use "probably" so that the ad got approved by the
ASA.

 

Hmm. An athesist is one who says "there is no evidence to support the
existence of god". He generally doesn't say (if he thinks about it),
"there is no god", as that would be a faith position (there may be a
god, it's just that we've no evidence for it). So "there's probably
no god" is good enough for me.

 

I think it must be one of them crackpot religions.

 

From the Just Giving comments...

"Rowan Williams 22/10/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Have we been rumbled ? "

 

What you've just described is agnosticism, surely?

 

No - agnostics say "I don't know whether there is a God". From the
Greek Gnosis (knowledge). With the 'a' prefix to indicate the lack of..

Atheists run the whole gamut from Champs position to the "There is no
God" position which (as Champ pointed out) is the less intelligent end
of the spectrum..

Phil

 

Agnostics are just a load of sheep.

 

I'd imagine the atheist position would be "There are no gods."

 

Can I forward this one to a couple of Italian newsgroups? I'd like to see
a few of these ads in Rome...

F

 

Does that mean that religious ads would have to say "probably" too?

 

The entire concept of faith is pretty stupid which ever way you look
at it.

....and on a religious note, do you know if you're over at Christmas
yet?

 

<baaaah>

I'm with the late Carl Sagan. Agnosticism is the only logical position
to adopt (to date).

PF

 

Agnus Dei

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