All aboard the atheist bus

pH · 28-11-2008 11:01AM

Right then, can we get 3 for 3? The very idea that someone writes to the Indo on this topic and doesn't post here seems unbelievable! ... who's Hugh?

Friday November 28 2008
I was both surprised and amused by Mary Kenny's article 'Atheist bus more like a bandwagon on a highway to hell' (Irish Independent, November 24).

Although an atheist, I found the article so biased and, quite frankly, ignorant, that I refused to become fussed.

Mary claims surprise at discovering that £90,000 was raised for the atheist bus by 'Guardian' readers.

Are atheists not allowed to sponsor their beliefs, given that so many baskets are handed around churches every Sunday? While I dislike the idea of an atheist bus, as the organisers, like preachers, attempt to change peoples' views when it is none of their business, we must be aware that the same thing occurs every day for Christians.

She later claims that the phrase "relax and enjoy life" is implausible, and that we are miserable blighters. I have found most atheists I know to be happy.

She claims that so-called "militant atheists" are "caustically intolerant" although she makes several untrue and unfounded statements herself.

Finally, her statement about our lives being a living hell calls for some proof. I know plenty of law-abiding atheists, and many drug-taking, smoking, drinking and downright unpleasant people who claim they are Catholic.

HUGH WALLACE

KILDARE

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/remarks-about-atheists-biased-1556262.html

CerebralCortex · 28-11-2008 11:22AM

Has anyone sent a complaint to the ombudsman? There is a thread in atheist.ie detailing how.

ChocolateSauce · 28-11-2008 11:44AM

Out of interest, has anyone here ever got a secularly-themed letter into a national paper?

Dave! · 28-11-2008 11:46AM

pH wrote: »

Right then, can we get 3 for 3? The very idea that someone writes to the Indo on this topic and doesn't post here seems unbelievable! ... who's Hugh?

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/remarks-about-atheists-biased-1556262.html

That's me!

Okay maybe not ¬_¬

AtomicHorror · 28-11-2008 02:07PM

Dave! wrote: »

That's me! Okay maybe not ¬_¬

It's not me, I wrote an essay of a letter

Galvasean · 28-11-2008 03:55PM

womoma wrote: »

The theists have gone fairly quiet in the After Hours thread.

Cause we battered them!

Well the discussion has been moved off topic again (guess who....). Now we're talking about what to do with our bodies when we die.

AtomicHorror · 29-11-2008 08:36PM

Sigh... Published in the Indo letters today:

According to Mary Kenny the 'atheist bus' is coming to Belfast soon and has a slogan on it saying: 'There is probably no God. So relax and enjoy life.' (Irish Independent, November 24).

The implication of the statement is that if one accepts that there is no God, relaxation and the enjoyment of life is a natural. This is nonsense. It would have made much more sense to say: "There probably is a God. So relax and enjoy life."

The reason for this is that most genuinely religious people are very happy and many are even Christian in their ways.

Atheists come across as people who are profoundly sad and need other people to join them to give them support. Pathetic.

These people need to stop thinking in purely scientific terms and start thinking laterally. Spirituality will follow emotional awakening.

The simple fact is that there is no evidence whatsoever (as distinct from trenchant argument) for the existence or non-existence of God.

Therefore, a logical person would deduce that the probability of God's existence is exactly 50/50.

PATRICK FINN

GLASNEVIN, DUBLIN 9

Highest density of stupid points. Ever.

condra · 29-11-2008 08:57PM

What an idiot. So stupid it's almost funny. He puts shame on all of Glasnevin. :P A plague of logic on both his houses.

rockbeer · 29-11-2008 08:57PM

AtomicHorror wrote: »

Sigh... Published in the Indo letters today:

Highest density of stupid points. Ever.

Was that honestly the best they got in support of MK?

I find that thought strangely encouraging

AtomicHorror · 29-11-2008 08:59PM

womoma wrote: »

What an idiot. So stupid it's almost funny. He puts shame on all of Glasnevin. :P A plague of logic on both his houses.

Guess they have to show all sides of the argument... but it stings a little that my overwrought masterpiece is rejected in favour of something a kid could dismantle.

rockbeer wrote: »

Was that honestly the best they got in support of MK?

I find that thought strangely encouraging

I'd imagine most rational Christians would back away from supporting Kenny's bigoted rant. All that's left are the logical clusterf*cks.

Dades · 29-11-2008 09:13PM

Logically Challenged Member of the Public wrote:

Therefore, a logical person would deduce that the probability of God's existence is exactly 50/50.

As is the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and the fairies living up your arse.

Zillah · 29-11-2008 09:22PM

Dades wrote: »

As is the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and the fairies living up your arse.

Actually there's all sorts of evidence for the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot, so going by his logic of starting at 50/50 we're looking at an 80 or 90% probability that such creatures exist.

Someone tell science, quick!

AtomicHorror · 29-11-2008 10:16PM

Zillah wrote: »

Actually there's all sorts of evidence for the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot, so going by his logic of starting at 50/50 we're looking at an 80 or 90% probability that such creatures exist.

Someone tell science, quick!

Science heard ya well enough. Science don't care.

MrDaithi · 04-12-2008 11:21AM

Was browsing some picture board somewhere and found this.
But without any reference at all.

Goduznt Xzst · 04-12-2008 02:08PM

AtomicHorror wrote: »

Highest density of stupid points. Ever.

I half wish you hadn't posted that. As funny as it is I actually find it quite sad that people can still have these opinions, and be so confident in them that they'd write in to a newspaper to have them expressed.

Dave! · 23-12-2008 11:09PM

Ariane Sherine on BBC1's Breakfast show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmdRGyZqVsQ

Only 4 minutes, but -- FOCKIN 'ELL SHE'S HOT!!! :eek: She'd give a dog a bone!

Galvasean · 24-12-2008 01:01AM

I'd like to ride her bus! :pac:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 24-12-2008 01:10AM

breasts

Tar.Aldarion · 24-12-2008 01:12AM

I'd give her my Double Decker!

Galvasean · 24-12-2008 01:16AM

Oh right I meant to contribute something more significant.

Does anyone know what's next for the whole Atheist Bus style advertising movement? (sorry if the video explained it, I have no audio right now)

Webmonkey · 24-12-2008 01:41AM

Galvasean wrote: »

Oh right I meant to contribute something more significant.

Does anyone know what's next for the whole Atheist Bus style advertising movement? (sorry if the video explained it, I have no audio right now)

Doesn't matter, I didn't listen to a word of that.... that smile....

condra · 24-12-2008 03:42AM

As a modern, metrosexual, politically correct, secular human being, I just gotta say, I would tap that.

Dades · 24-12-2008 10:09AM

Move over Dawkins! The face (or front

) of heathenism has arrived...

They seem however to think though that because the ad used the word "probably", that they're not really atheists which is kind of annoying. If they'd left it out - they'd immediately be shouting how you can't prove God doesn't exist.