No God bus.....
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- DaveO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla…
There probably is no god anyway, but don't tell this feller.
Fine for christian messages to be thrown at us left right and centre though eh?
- GeorgesII0
THERE'S A GOD
- set0
Sack the fucker for discriminating against peoples beliefs, that'll teach him.
- max_prophet0
If they took the money then surely they should have no scruples about making this guy drive the bus?
- DaveO0
Fucking idiot.
- moth0
People who go through life without noticing their own hypocrisies piss me the fuck off.
- moth0
- moth0
- moth0
- richard dawkins - ive met him and taken photos of a lecture he lead.Samush
- awesomelocustsloth
- that bus almost looks like a buildingtymeframe
- moth0
Trouble is, there's probably no bus either.
- kalkal0
The athiest is more positive which ever way you look at it
- moth0
And I'll put money on him crashing it if he does have to drive it.
- set0
I personally just think why the fuck bother, every one is so fragile and stuck so far up thier own japseye that they fail to see anyone elses point of view, just play it safe and don't bother with these hugely controversial campaigns, just fuck off everyone.
- I think the atheist feel compelled to do it simply to counteract the christian campain (i haven't seen any others)kalkal
- others)kalkal
- and why not?!
athiests or other religions get Christianity rammed down their throat! (in UK/US)23kon - so why cant we ram athiest/other religious beliefs down theirs?23kon
- 23kon0
Its an advertisement on a bus.
he maybe doesnt use Gillette or have Standard Life Insurance but he'd drive a bus with an advert for it on it.It's not as if he was being made to drive a bus that was a huge cock or anything!!!
What a knob for refusing to drive it. He should be paid off just to make an example of the narrowminded christian.
And I wholeheartedly agree with the guy whos the chief exec of the British Humanist Association when he says
"I have difficulty understanding why people with particular religious beliefs find the expression of a different sort of beliefs to be offensive"- its narrowmindedness! brainwashed into them by a belief that makes them put on blinkers to other religions and beliefs.
- set0
"I have difficulty understanding why people with particular religious beliefs find the expression of a different sort of beliefs to be offensive"
great statement.
- 23kon0
Religion is more than happy to have banners on the side of churches etc scaring the shit out of us telling us that we will die if we sin or dont believe in god, that we will burn for eternity.
If you are an athiest or dont have any strong religious beliefs then that kind of message just washes over you cos you just think "haha - thats religion" (lol) and you dont actually take it to heart.
When the humanist association publically publishes one of their beliefs they are attacked for it by a religious man.
mental likes.
- 23kon0
"The advertisements run on 200 bendy buses in London and 600 vehicles in England, Scotland and Wales........."
".... and some 350 christians may be targetted, kidnapped and the message tattoed to their forehead"
- designbot0
I don't see why everyone is getting so pissed at this guy. He obviously had some strong convictions about driving a bus with a huge message plastered on the side that were in stark contrast to his beliefs. So he decides he can't drive it. He never said the message shouldn't be allowed to be there....just that he didn't want to drive it. If he argued that the message had no place on the side of a bus, then I could see why some people might take offense.
On a side note...this message
"Theres probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life" doesn't even make sense and assumes alot of things about people who beleive in God. I really do think that Richard was just trying to ruffle feathers on this one.- I'm pissed at him designbot because he's religious, full of hypocrisy and he's a bus driver. He probably earnsmoth
- gramme0
Moth, I'll ignore your bias against bus drivers, but I must ask: you're actually pissed at this guy because he's religious? Since when is that cause for anger? Some of the kindest people I have ever met—scratch that, ALL of the kindest people I have ever met—are deeply religious. There have of course been countless people who hold to some faith, Christian or other, who are angry, violent people, but I have always said that a religion should be judged by the quality of its Scripture, and the relatively few adherents who really live by them.
They have a saying down South: "The hit dog hollers." When people hear things that they recognize as truth on a deep level, but ignore, explain away and deny because they would rather live life on their own terms, they get rankled. Deep truth tends to hit deep nerves, if it registers at all. Statements of absolute truth that don't resonate with a person's self-made moral code always seem inflammatory, regardless of how gently they are delivered. The great hypocrisy is that when a dogmatic statement is made that is fashionable (e.g. the banner on the bus behind Dawkins, above), nobody complains. This sort of majority rule, group think, fad-driven theology/philosophy is the ultimate in mediocrity. I find this sadly ironic since most atheists style themselves as original thinkers.
- <oh jesuskelpie
- who says this "The hit dog hollers"mistermik
- It's a common idiom in the U.S. South.gramme
- actually it's not
tcmmct - Actually I grew up in the south, and actually it is. Maybe not in all corners, but in Alabama it's a known phrase.gramme
- I grew up in the South as well and have only read that idiom in short stories.duckofrubber
- gramme0
If an atheist refused to drive a pro-God bus, I wonder if we would hear of it. I also wonder if, in the event that a story made the news, the likes of Dave or moth would complain. Doubtful.
I find that people who yell "hypocrisy!" the most are often guilty of that very thing, but bugger them if they could see their own noses in front of their faces.
- no we wouldn't hear about it, he would be fired. simple as.kelpie
- I think we need equal treatment for all, firing or not. And BTW in the states, at least, it would be illegal to fire said atheist.gramme
- I'd imagine it would be the same in the UK, no?gramme
- no it wouldn't, he would be refusing to do his job. That's the terms, unless you can call "faith" into the equation. I highly doubt its any different in the USkelpie
- its any different in the US, though you do have a far more litigious culturekelpie
- This is not about being litigious, it's about personal belief. The atheists are free to advertise themselves, but can't respect everyone to go along with it.gramme
- can't expect the rest of the world to complacently go along with the message when it intersects with one's livelihood.gramme
- no, this is what religious groups and lobbys do. The guy refused to do his job, the company he works for weren't happy. end of.kelpie