athiest bus backlash
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- ismith0
I admit I only skimmed the article, but did anyone else think it all sounded kind of tongue-in-cheek on both sides? I would yell "there is no god" to all my deeply religious friends for a laugh once in a while, and "there definitely is a god" is just a willfully childish response... I think it's hilarious, but maybe I missed the serious part.
- at 90k a pop, I hope they had a good laugh.max_prophet
- It's an attention-getting laugh (obviously), I would say it was worth it even if mean jokingly.ismith
- designerror0
Fuck religion and everything near it
- Anees0
I'm pretty sure none of this really happened.
- powertoni0
I worship Goser
- http://lfm.mit.edu/b…jaylarson
- are you the keymaster?powertoni
- jaylarson0
- It's the other way around these days. Personally hope Richard Dawkins is struck by lightning.Hoax
- bullshit, Dawkins is awesome, I can only surmise that you don't actually understand what it is he says.mikotondria3
- lolHoax
- Hoax0
I find atheists these days more over-baring than Christians. I don't care whether you believe in anything or not. Notice they didn't have the balls to mention Allah in their posters...
- ah yes, whereas you theists have the balls to 'crusade', 'fatwa' and suicide bomb the other side and explicitly..mikotondria3
- ..mention their names, yeah great point, sir. Allah was not the son of god, nor was jesus, nor any of them, There.mikotondria3
- I like how you illustrate my point perfectly. "If you're not with us you're against logic".Hoax
- By the way, I'm technically an atheist too, tho hate the term. Get off your high horse, it's a long way down.Hoax
- in the us the theists are becoming increasingly politicised and powerful and wealthy, its not like we're allmikotondria3
- Fariska0
http://ruletheweb.co.uk/b3ta/bus….
(via emecs)
- TheBlueOne0
I've decided to start calling myself "post-Christian"...I like to sit on fences and mock both sides.
- Suppose you don't take a position on Thor either ?
I keel you!mikotondria3 - I'm more pro-Loki than anti-ThorTheBlueOne
- Thor would kick Loki's ass and you know it. Repent ! Take this leaflet and ask for forgiveness. I keel you.mikotondria3
- Suppose you don't take a position on Thor either ?
- mikotondria30
Obviously we cannot establish a position based on the absolute irrefutable proof of a negative, namely that 'there is no god'..
In the same way that we can only only in all intellectual honesty be agnostic, taking that position does not indicate that the existence of god has anything like the equal chance of being true.
Bertrand Russel postulated that there could be a teapot in orbit around Mars, and noone can ultimately prove that there isn't, so we must therefore all be teapot-agnostics about this. Technically then we must for the sake of technical argument stop short of Dawkins fundamental a-fairyism, and a-theism, and recognise that the majority of the theists, although they claim to have certain knowledge of the existence of god, are in fact as secularised in their behavior and lifestyles as the rest of us. If you really honestly truly believed in the god of the bible, and of the resurrection and salvation of jesus christ, you really couldn't live a secular life in the western world, it would if truly believed, every waking second be the only topic of conversation, and naturally predispose one to militantism and war-like evangalism. There is no safe middle ground - either the god of the bible is entirely as it's written, or becomes meaningless when reinterpreted as 'love', 'nature', or 'the laws of physics'. At which point the fundamental need for the omnipotent god the father has been abandoned, and the huddled masses that comprise the majority of the 'christian world', are left with only the legacy of history and culture and ancestry to protect.
It is the protection of this living history that is seen in the reactions against the atheist bus advertisements, and against the humanist and atheist schools of thought in general. Atheism is seen as the harbinger of moral relativism, and the destroyer of the conservative basis of western culture, as a set of ideas and ideals based on destroying people's sense of intellectual heritage and establishment. When the teaching of history and moral philosophy becomes a part of the curriculum and we raise children to value both their intellectual curiosity, judgment AND encourage a sense of aesthetic appreciation and a need to preserve our cultural heritage for its own sake rather than feel a need to reconcile and modernize every aspect of the religious establishment, then we will be able to transcend the whole debate and not be bound by labels such as a-this, or pro-that.
Egyptology is not a discipline with one side believing in the goddess Nut, and another group putting aNutist adverts on Cairo buses.
- moth0
- max_prophet0
It's ridiculous, Ariane Sherine, the 'comedy' writer who started this whole self-serving bullshit campaign, has been nominated, alongside Barack Obama for the 'Secularist of the Year' award for 2009.
Secularist of the Year AWARD! Who even knew? Or needed to know?
- max_prophet0
The only people who come out of this better off is via-com/CBS.
What a sacrilegious waste of money.
- moth0
Basically, numerous religious groups have fallen prey to a quite brilliant trap. It really confirms a deep hypocrisy that I have hitherto suspected resides in all of them.
I'm very much enjoying this.
- Nairn0
Time for bored graphic designers around London to mount a counter- counter marketing a/theistic insurgency to point out how ridiculous it is to state in any form of absolution that there IS a God?
At least the Humanist Association had the good grace to state it the most correctly - 'probably'.
- I'm in, we need to go round defacing those new ads. I'm a pastafarian, where do I sign upBaskerviIle
- Is that a question?
Did you mean to type a question mark?
I'm confused.monospaced
- Khurram0
I for one just can't wait to see what will happen to this thread when the puritans wake up.
Nice on kelps!
- kev_charlton0
I for one would like to wish God all the best in his new Australian venture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/…
- GeorgesII0
As a god loving/fearing zealot,
I complained fist in the air against the "God doesn't exist" campaign we did,
God listened and I got a raise.
thanx God :)