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"No God" Adverts To Be Posted On Buses
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7681914.stm
I'm not one to generally get into the religious debates that are rife on DS, but this article caught my eye.
When there is so much politically correctness around for not offending any religion, when I saw this I was shocked!
Its basically an advert advertising atheism, attempting to "challenge" religious views and encourage thinking. I think its going to certainly encourage some thinking, as in some thinking up of mass complaints to tfl!
What does everyone else think? Should the advert be allowed?
I'm not one to generally get into the religious debates that are rife on DS, but this article caught my eye.
When there is so much politically correctness around for not offending any religion, when I saw this I was shocked!
Its basically an advert advertising atheism, attempting to "challenge" religious views and encourage thinking. I think its going to certainly encourage some thinking, as in some thinking up of mass complaints to tfl!
What does everyone else think? Should the advert be allowed?
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Of course. Churches are allowed to advertise their opinion, after all.
But to be fair, Christians do have loads of people who go around knocking on doors, and open-air preachers who shout things at people (i.e. "You're going to burn in Hell!"). Christians have been converting people ever since the days of the Roman Empire.
So why would it be wrong for athiests to put an advert on a bus?
Very True. In fact most churches you pass have a board up advertising services etc and maybe a funny one liner
Why not advertise that? Us non believers are human too! I don't complain about all the 'Lord, God, Mercy' posters advertised everywhere... Though I'd prefer it if they stayed the f**k off of my doorstep
Well, we wouldn't want to fall into the same dogmatic trap that churches do.
When did you last see a "Jesus probably lives" sign?
Atheists are open-minded, after all
I thought that was Agnostics?
Very true, still makes me laugh to think about one I read a few months back
''Let the Lord be your giude, not Google''
But Muslims believe in God too, they they can be offended as well if they like.
He's being intellectually honest, which is more than can be said for the groups that dissemate the 'god is truth' posters.
If he'd stated it as a fact i don't doubt someone would try to sue him.
Basically, any atheist who claims - definitively - that there is no god undermines the basis upon which atheism is built: reason. Even the erstwhile Prof Dawkins doesn't claim that.
It's a good idea and definitely should be allowed.
I think its a great idea, why should Athiests be ignored.
At least they have the decency not to take their beliefs and reproduce them as though they are facts.
I got invited into the Facebook group run by the people who were arranging this, and am worried it may seem unneccessarily and purposefuly antagonistic, BUT, they have every right to preach atheism and agnosticism, and have these opinions respected by people of faith in religion.
It's a confusion over definitons.
An athiest is someone who doesn't believe in the existence of God.
It doesn't mean that they DENY that a God could ever exist.
Which is why the use of "probably" is such a good idea, and shows that they are reasonable as oposed to dogmatic.
Christians and Muslims both have the same God. Infact Allah was a Christian term for God and as Christians started calling God,God Muslims continued with Allah. Islam recognise Jesus as Prophet. So it might piss alot of people of
This is the problem. Do Christians worry that their posters about Jesus are antagonistic? Not at all. So why should we pussy-foot about with the opposing view?
Of course, atheist messages will never get the same sort of penetration. Advertising isn't cheap and atheists don't get the nice tax-breaks that churches enjoy.
For what it's worth, the "probably" is there because TFL won't run the advert without it - because the Christians will get upset with them. Aww. But I like the "probably" anyway, it's so polite and British
To be honest this won't achieve anything. Believers will simply turn their heads and bemoan the unbelievers who printed it.