Taking the bus

I think you lot are missing the point of the whole bus ad thing. It's
telling you to stop wasting time splitting that hair, and making up ever
more complex ideas for something thats just a load of old bollocks anyway.

 

"... the best faith system in the world"

 

<bites>

As are you.

 

Probably. Because that's what the advert says. Probably.

 

So you're not christian then?

 

From the web site (http://www.atheistcampaign.org/) :

"A number of people have concerns about the slogan containing the word
‘probably‘. There’s also a lively debate about this at our Facebook
Group Discussion Board. I’ll quote what Ariane wrote there:

'…transport advertising regulations are more stringent than normal
advertising regulations (for billboards, etc) and the decision of
whether to run the ad or not is very much at the discretion of the bus
companies. It’s their private space, and their criteria for this (I
know it’ll make all atheists reading this bang their head against a
wall, but here goes) is that the advert “must not offend religious
people'.

'In their view, the “probably” gets us around this (and even with it,
I’m anticipating that the Advertising Standards Authority will receive
several dozen complaints from religious people and organisations).
Also, as Dawkins writes in The God Delusion, being an absolute “7? on
the faith scale (insisting “there is no God”) doesn’t make sense, as
nobody can ever state this as an absolute. The alternative Dawkins
proposes is “almost certainly”, but “there’s almost certainly no God”
doesn’t make for an overly catchy advertising slogan!'

In short our priority is to get these ads out on the buses, to get
people thinking about atheism. That’s the major goal. So we hope
plenty more people can back our efforts to reach that goal!

 

**** me x 2 - up to 73 grand now.

 

Oh yes, I forgot to put that on the end. Probably.

 

http://minilien.fr/a0j5v2

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A gross underestimate I would guess, given the publicity that the
success of the fund raising may attract.


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For once, one of your links made me chuckle.

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I don't see that has anything to do with faith, it's a probability...
the odds of which are too complex to work out casually.

 

Well, the theist position is "there are no gods - except mine"

Atheists only deny the existence of *one more* god than most theists,
after all.

 

I read that as casualty and thought, "Bear's fault again"

 

Ding!

 

Indeed. In the comments there are people saying that antireligious
evangelism is a waste of time, just let others get on with worshipping
if they want to. Then you get the responses along the lines of there
needing to be a separating of church and state and a stop to tax
funding of religion. Fair enough, so do something about that. I don't
think this bus campaign will achieve that. I can think of better ways
to spend 73k and, on a smaller scale, my own money would be better
spent on beer.

 

Sorry to hear that Bee.

 

Heh..

 

It amuses me, therefore it's not a waste of anything.