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Atheist buses in Toronto
Return to DiscussionsA lot of people have heard about the atheist bus campaign in London, which has now spread to Europe and the USA... now it has spread to Toronto! Check out www.atheistbus.ca for info.
There's definitely interest in Canada... over $20,000 was raised from individual donations in the first week. Any of the Canadian members here donated/thinking of donating?
S.
An interesting contrast. At about the same time in Utah, a group put up a billboard quoting John Lennon: "Imagine no religion." Within days pressure from the public forced them to take it down. (I'm pressed for time right now; I'll try to find a link to a news story when I have a bit more.)
The original bus ads in London were in response to some hell-and-brimstone ads that were put up on buses there. If you can say stuff about a lake of fire, presumably you can say that probably, there's no god. Seems fair.
Utah has always been its own place, though, so it's hard to make a call on that one. Link welcome if you find it though.
S.
The original bus ads in London were in response to some hell-and-brimstone ads that were put up on buses there. If you can say stuff about a lake of fire, presumably you can say that probably, there's no god. Seems fair. Utah has always been its own place, though, so it's hard to make a call on that one. Link welcome if you find it though. S.
If you google, ....... Utah+billboard+John Lennon+"Imagine no religion." .....you get this plus about 99 other results.
https://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/11/city_censors_antireligion_bill.php
Here in the UK, we've just had a fair bit on the box re Darwin's anniversary. It is beyond me, how supposedly educated intelligent people, can possibly believe in something that they can't prove and blatantly goes against the most basic common sense. I can only hope, that as with Greek Mythology, The majority will one day see the light, If we last that long!
Phil.
The original bus ads in London werein response to some hell-and-brimstone ads that were put up on busesthere. If you can say stuff about a lake of fire, presumably you cansay that probably, there's no god. Seems fair. Utah has always been its own place, though, so it's hard to make a call on that one. Link welcome if you find it though. S.If you google, ....... Utah+billboard+John Lennon+"Imagine no religion." .....you get this plus about 99 other results.https://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/11/city_censors_antireligion_bill.phpHerein the UK, we've just had a fair bit on the box re Darwin'sanniversary. It is beyond me, how supposedly educated intelligentpeople, can possibly believe in something that they can't prove andblatantly goes against the most basic common sense. I can only hope,that as with Greek Mythology, The majority will one day see the light,If we last that long!Phil.
I have always liked the comment on this subject made by my Alex (I warn you he is a psychologist). :-
"If an adult individual says they have an invisible friend be concerned ... if they say the invisible friend tells them what to do - run!"
The other quote he uses is:-
"If you talk to your god you are devout - if your god talks back to you you are probably schizophrenic!"
Love n stuff
Rudie x
(Follower of The Tao of Pooh)
The original bus ads in London were in response to some hell-and-brimstone ads that were put up on buses there. If you can say stuff about a lake of fire, presumably you can say that probably, there's no god. Seems fair. Utah has always been its own place, though, so it's hard to make a call on that one. Link welcome if you find it though. S. If you google, ....... Utah+billboard+John Lennon+"Imagine no religion." .....you get this plus about 99 other results. https://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/11/city_censors_antireligion_bill.php Here in the UK, we've just had a fair bit on the box re Darwin's anniversary. It is beyond me, how supposedly educated intelligent people, can possibly believe in something that they can't prove and blatantly goes against the most basic common sense. I can only hope, that as with Greek Mythology, The majority will one day see the light, If we last that long! Phil.
I have always liked the comment on this subject made by my Alex (I warn you he is a psychologist). :-
"If an adult individual says they have an invisible friend be concerned ... if they say the invisible friend tells them what to do - run!"
The other quote he uses is:-
"If you talk to your god you are devout - if your god talks back to you you are probably schizophrenic!"
Love n stuff
Rudie x
(Follower of The Tao of Pooh)
haha! ........love it!!!!
Phil.
Just wondering if there is anything that can bring people together. God was such a good bringer together of people. Though of course a huge divider as well. Is there just a vaccum left in th wake of the death of God. Or is atheism as the name implies simply the negation of something and therefore nothing in its own right? Are we essentially as Timothy Hitchens has just suggested in a BBC debate, moulded by/ defined by the Enlightenment. Are we humanists?