The Atheist Bus Campaign

On October 21 2008 · 2 Comments · In Diary

What a brilliant idea, and why did I not know about it before today? Nick told me about this campaign, raising funds to put adverts on the sides of London Buses saying

There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

Atheists are too timid about their lack of faith, and all too likely to simply laugh off or ignore the threatening, unpleasant language used by the loonier believers out there. This campaign is after all a response to a previous bus advertising campaign by a Christian group stating that non-believers would burn in hell for all eternity. The atheist advert strikes the right note – a touch of humour, and a message that should resonate with many thousands of people. Even moderate religious people probably don’t appreciate threats of eternal damnation plastered across the side of buses, let alone non-believers (a difficult to count but very significant proportion of the population).

Again, as always, it comes back to this – a bus advert condemning Islam as a primitive, misogynistic religion or Catholicism as a guilt-obsessed blood cult would result in uproar and protests in the streets, but the original Christian campaign might have just resulted in thousands of non-believers muttering ‘wankers’ before going about their business. This Atheist Bus Campaign is a great sign that all of those people who neither believe in sky-fairies, nor wish to be threatened with hot-poker buggery by assorted demons until the end of time, are capable of mobilising enough to club together and buy… an advert for the side of a bus.

Viva la revolution!

Watch out in upcoming news stories for Muslim bus drivers refusing to drive the buses claiming insult and hurt, and sky-rocketing bus vandalism by bible-throwing idiots. Indeed this was foreseen by Stephen Green of Christian Voice who gets quote of the day for

Bendy-buses, like atheism, are a danger to the public at large.


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  • dough

    Your ‘Viva la revolution’ comment awoke me as to the reason why we have just muttered ‘wankers’ under our breath up to now. We don’t want a revolution because we secretly know that the religious are far more committed to their delusions than we are to our beliefs, and they could turn to violence very quickly. That commitment is not a measure of accuracy it’s just a reality of the warped tribalism fostered by some religions…as we have seen with suicide bombing, the assasinations of aid workers etc…

  • http://www.theanswers42.blogspot.com/ Margaret

    P Z Myers wrote that it would be too expensive in the States because they’d have to replace all the buses that got burnt.