Atheist Bus mk. II

Dave!

http://richarddawkins.net/article,3521,New-Bus-Campaign,Richard-Dawkins


What is this that frighteneth us?
Can it be an atheist bus?
Yes, the dreaded “Probably
There is no God”, so stridently
Cuts through our calm like plunging knife –
And asks us to enjoy our life!
“Enjoy your life”? The dreadful scene
Disturbs the Reverend Stephen Green.
No chance that he’ll “Stop worrying”.
Instead we see him hurrying
To file his silly little plea
With the official Agency
That keeps the Standards gently rising
Of all our British Advertising.
“Probably? You cannot prove it.
So therefore you must now remove it.”


As agreed with Ariane
(Whose buses, red and partisan
Drive with insolent abandon
All around the streets of London)
And with her fellow rationalists
Among the British Humanists,
In April there’s a second wave
Of buses from the pounds I gave
Together with the gifts I matched
And also the small fraction snatched
Back from the Inland Revenue –
That’s all the Gift Aid that is due.
So now we need some good ideas
To feed the faith-heads’ darkest fears.
A slogan bright, for all of us –
Atheistes omnibus. [1]

We’ve already had some nice suggestions for the slogan for the second wave of buses in April. I said that my own preference was for “No More Faith Schools”, probably following something along the lines of the familiar (perhaps too familiar to our regulars, but not to the citizens of London) “There’s no such thing as a . . . child”, perhaps including the joking reference to “Marxist child” or “Postmodernist child”. Somebody suggested a long list of ex-Gods (Mithras, Zeus, Horus, Wotan etc), all crossed out, with Yahweh and Allah crossed out. I like that suggestion too. There are some other good suggestions that people here have made. Like “Religions: They can’t all be right. They can all be wrong”. Does anybody know the origin of “Religion: For consenting adults in private.” I wonder whether people might send in all their suggestions, to form an orderly list on this page, so that we can survey a gathered field and make a choice.
Many thanks

Thank you

Richard

I woulda thought some other sort of campaign would be better, but oh well! They must still have cash left from the last one.

I quite like the idea of having the gods crossed out, etc.

Mithras
Zeus
Horus
Wotan
Yahweh
Allah


Might come across as a bit hostile though... like it's an assassin's list or somethin

Dades

http://richarddawkins.net/article,3521,New-Bus-Campaign,Richard-Dawkins

In case anyone wishes to contribute a slogan!

MrPudding

I like:

Religion. They can't all be right, but they can all be wrong.

MrP

death1234567

MrPudding wrote: »

I like:
Religion. They can't all be right, but they can all be wrong.
MrP

+1. I think that one would get people thinking.

AtomicHorror

To paraphrase one Stephen F. Roberts (whom I have never heard of before):

Once you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why we dismiss yours.

I can't quite see it in day-glo colours though. And it doesn't have anything like the positive message that the other one does.

Galvasean

I'd like: "“Religions: They can’t all be right. They could all be wrong”.

How about;
"What think ye of Christ? Overrated."

Galvasean

Dades wrote: »

http://richarddawkins.net/article,3521,New-Bus-Campaign,Richard-Dawkins

In case anyone wishes to contribute a slogan!

Link broken?


CONSPIRACY!!!!:eek:

The Mad Hatter

Atheism: Not available in Australia

Red Hand

Atheism: Disgard God, embrace responsibility.

Dades

Galvasean wrote: »

Link broken?


CONSPIRACY!!!!:eek:

Works for me...

They must only be after you. :P

oshead

AtomicHorror wrote: »

To paraphrase one Stephen F. Roberts (whom I have never heard of before):

Once you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why we dismiss yours.

And the longer version.

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

judomick

possibly a list consisting of santa, tooth fairy, boogeyman, allah, jesus, crossed out?

Galvasean

judomick wrote: »

possibly a list consisting of santa, tooth fairy, boogeyman, allah, jesus, crossed out?

Be good or else Santa wont give you presents God will send you to hell.

Bottle_of_Smoke

This might be suitable for the posters on the inside of buses.

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."
-Robert M. Pirsig

Húrin

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

This might be suitable for the posters on the inside of buses.

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."
-Robert M. Pirsig

Doubt is good; very scientific, no?

Either that or religious people are inflexibly stubborn in their beliefs. We can't win can we? Either stubborn, or insincere, apparently.

AtomicHorror

Húrin wrote: »

Doubt is good; very scientific, no?

It's worthless unless you do something with it. Test the hypothesis, for example.

I posted this somewhere else:

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

I figure if you're going to worry about the probability of things existing, Godzilla is a much more immediate concern.

Galvasean

Húrin wrote: »

We can't win can we?

Not in this forum you cant

robindch

Time for this one again, methinks:

Bottle_of_Smoke

Húrin wrote: »

Doubt is good; very scientific, no?

Either that or religious people are inflexibly stubborn in their beliefs. We can't win can we? Either stubborn, or insincere, apparently.

what do you mean by the first bit? do you not see what the guy is getting at?