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There's Probably No God! - Richard Dawkins, Ariane Sherine, And The Atheist Bus Ad Campaign.
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The Atheist Bus Journey (by Ariane Sherine, The Guardian)
Thanks to you we raised enough money to put ads on 800 buses across the UK, and the campaign has gone global
Today, thanks to many Cif readers, the overall total raised for the Atheist Bus Campaign stands at a truly overwhelming £135,000, breaking our original target of £5,500 by over 2400%. Given this unexpected amount, I'm very excited to tell you that 800 buses instead of the 30 we were initially aiming for are now rolling out across the UK with the slogan, "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life", in locations all over England, Scotland and Wales, including Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, York, Cardiff, Devon, Leeds, Bristol and Aberdeen.
From today's launch, two hundred of the buses will run in London, because the campaign was originally started as a positive counter-response to the Jesus Said ads running on London buses in June 2008. These ads displayed the URL of a website which stated that non-Christians "will be condemned to everlasting separation from God and then you spend all eternity in torment in hell Jesus spoke about this as a lake of fire prepared for the devil". Our rational slogan will hopefully reassure anyone who has been scared by this kind of evangelism.
In addition, we're running adverts on two further types of media. In my last Cif blog on the campaign, I asked Cif readers for ideas on alternative ways to spend the funds, and also for thoughts on different slogans. Commenters WoollyMindedLiberal, PaoloV and Catch22 suggested that we use quotes from famous freethinkers, and we've done just that: from Monday January 12, 1,000 tube cards will run on London Underground featuring atheist quotations from Douglas Adams, Albert Einstein, Emily Dickinson and Katharine Hepburn (see above), alongside the original campaign slogan.
An animated version of the slogan will also appear on two large LCD screens on Oxford Street (opposite Bond Street tube station), so that you can see the advert live without having to wait for an atheist bus. And, to thank all donors and show the strength of atheism in the UK, every ABC advertisement will contain the line "This advert was funded by public donations".
Amazingly, the campaign has now gone international. Spain's Union of Atheists and Freethinkers are launching buses across Barcelona today with a translation of our slogan, Italy's Union of Atheist, Agnostics and Rationalists are also planning to roll out atheist buses, while the American Humanist Association have been inspired to launch a campaign, and buses carrying their slogan "Why believe in a God? Just be good for goodness' sake" have now been running for over a month in Washington DC. Sadly, not every country has been so open to the idea: the Atheist Foundation of Australia tried to place the slogan "Atheism celebrate reason" on buses, but were rejected by Australia's biggest outdoor advertising company.
The campaign's success is thanks to Cif and Cif readers. If Matt Seaton hadn't allowed me to run with the idea here, and so many of you hadn't been so enthusiastic about it and donated generously to it, it would never have happened. There may be further campaign developments, and the campaign website and Facebook group will be regularly updated with the latest news; but for now, I hope you enjoy seeing the adverts on the streets, and that they brighten these bleak January days just a little bit. As Charlie Brooker one of the first people to donate to the Atheist Bus Campaign says: "Public transport in Britain suggests there isn't a God anyway, but in case anyone hasn't noticed, or feels isolated for thinking such a thing, this campaign should help." I hope it does.
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/06/atheist-bus
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/
• http://www.youtube.com/TheGuardian
• http://www.atheistbus.org.uk/
• http://www.atheistcampaign.org/
• http://www.richarddawkins.net
• http://www.youtube.com/richarddawkinsdotnet
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My wife ! lmao naw im joking im athiest, fuck marrige, i shall mate with many females as my primal instict is throbing ! luckly i dont live in a muslim country or id be getting stoned !
MiloMatrataMusic 1 day ago
I want to marry this bitch
asianwhitenigger 1 day ago
amazing video! I'm so glad we have people like Mr. Dawkin in our world - people that try to make the world a better place for humans using our most effective instrument- our brain.
drasteek 2 days ago
@plijewski82 Thats like me quoting something from harry potter and saying "go speak to harry potter, dont get mad at me".
Don't post a quote and then hide behind a fictional character when I say I dont agree.
aDislikeBot 4 days ago
@plijewski82 Look, he can't know me because I'm different. You think everyone you looking at is a human. I can tell you for sure that's absolutely wrong! The aliens what you all are looking for are already here. In human bodys! And god? There's no god man, there's only us who can decide what ever we want. You're just afraid to remember the true, to be probably alone. Don't worry, I know what I'm talking about, that's not my first life on earth. Just think about what you really want, that's all!
WRCRainbow 4 days ago
@plijewski82 for the same reason i would not go to a tupac is still alive website or an santa claus is real website. lol
unholychunk 4 days ago
@plijewski82 or know i am right and not go there :)
unholychunk 4 days ago
@aDislikeBot First off, I quoted scripture from the book of Psalms. That's the Word of God. So if you're upset at what that scripture says, then you go speak to God....don't get mad at me.
plijewski82 4 days ago
@unholychunk go to that site. If you think you're so sure about things, go there. But if you believe you're wrong about everything, then don't go there :)
plijewski82 4 days ago
@WRCRainbow You're right I don't know you. But God does :)
plijewski82 4 days ago