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I love it.
Bendy-buses with the slogan "There's probably no God" could soon be running on the streets of London.
Atheist slogan on buses.
"This campaign to put alternative slogans on London buses will make people think - and thinking is anathema to religion."
Professor Richard Dawkins
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Re: I love it.
The believers have made them take it off. There was a huge demonstration by believers who refused to use the buses and there were even some drivers who refused to drive them.
Also coming from the intolerant one, why is it necessary to deliberately seek to cause trouble. If people want to believe that their imaginary friend listens when they talk to themselves, it doesn't really hurt anyone, unless they start strapping bombs to themselves and blow up innocent people.
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me who God was rooting for on the day that a group of believers aimed rocket launchers at the Sri Lankan cricket team's bus.
No replies on that one either.
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Trouble is already present. A war is already being fought. I don't seek trouble. I seek victory.
Who, exactly, made "them" take the ad down, and why? I thought there was a review that determined that the phrase was acceptable. Any moron can shout "help help, I'm being repressed", but shouting that there's a violation of your rights doesn't mean that there is one.
On what grounds would such a demonstrably true statement be ruled against, and who cares if some weaklings boycott the bus and actually ride their bikes to work?
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I must have missed that thread MO. I think you know what I would say in regards to that but I will say it anyway. That is not the type of behavior God asks of us. Thoughout history people have done terrible things in his name to justify decisions and actions which has nothing to do with God. Just because they have done the terrible act doesn't mean he is responsible.
But to respond to the subject of the tread, I am not personally threaten by non believers expressing themselves as long as it isn't inflammatory. My faith isn't that weak. Yes I know that there are some "supposed" believers who say or do inflammatory things. It's not right whoever does it.
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sure he has.
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I must have missed that thread MO. I think you know what I would say in regards to that but I will say it anyway. That is not the type of behavior God asks of us.
Are you familiar with the OT at all?
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Thoughout history people have done terrible things in his name to justify decisions and actions which has nothing to do with God. Just because they have done the terrible act doesn't mean he is responsible.
But to respond to the subject of the tread, I am not personally threaten by non believers expressing themselves as long as it isn't inflammatory. My faith isn't that weak. Yes I know that there are some "supposed" believers who say or do inflammatory things. It's not right whoever does it.
Thank you for breaking from tradition and not asking for a free pass. You're a (rare) credit to your religion.
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LOL I knew someone was going to mention the OT. In the OT God did command people to do some hard things. No denying it BUT every bad thing throughout history that was done in his name cannot be laid at his door. They had less to do with him than personal power, glory and greed. Not some higher purpose.
I doubt seriously being the extremely flawed person that I am, my religion would consider me a credit to them but I will accept the compliment in the spirit I hope it was given. 
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More on the 'burning bus'
Here you go Stormdog.
MPs demand slogan be removed
I didn't quote the report because there are some clever comments below it, I thought they might amuse you.
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quote:
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LOL I knew someone was going to mention the OT. In the OT God did command people to do some hard things. No denying it BUT every bad thing throughout history that was done in his name cannot be laid at his door. They had less to do with him than personal power, glory and greed. Not some higher purpose.
Oh, I agree, and I'll go even further than you - all the religious leaders and heroes in the bible that said god wanted them to do this or that were lying, too.
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I doubt seriously being the extremely flawed person that I am, my religion would consider me a credit to them but I will accept the compliment in the spirit I hope it was given.
Don't worry. I'm not like god - your not being perfect isn't something I find abominable. And yes, it's nice to actually meet a religious person that isn't demanding special treatment/concessions.
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Here you go Stormdog.
MPs demand slogan be removed
I didn't quote the report because there are some clever comments below it, I thought they might amuse you.
These 3 politicians referred to the highly accurate slogan as being:
""religiously offensive and morally unhelpful advertisements"."
What a joke. "Religiously offensive" according to whom? How does one measure this offensiveness? And "morally unhelpful"? Bwahahaha! I thought they were quite morally helpful, especially as a means to counter the immorality foistered upon society by such reprehensible tomes as the bible, the torah, or the Koran.
Brits elected these idiots? What a sad and shameful commentary on the state of England today.
At any rate, there's a call to ban the slogan, but it isn't banned yet.
The Government is expected to leave a decision to the Advertising Standards Authority, which has received a formal complaint from the Christian Voice group.
Stephen Green, its national director, said: "I think the advertisers are really going to struggle to show their claim is not an exaggeration or inaccurate, as the ASA code puts it."
No, the advertisers are not going to struggle in the least. If I can demonstrate its accuracy, I'm sure guys like Dawkins will do so, struggle-free. I have a feeling that this will backfire in the faces of religious nuts everywhere - their advertising on buses is about to come to an end if this ad is banned. It's a case of being careful what you wish for.
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England is a Christian country, its head of state is also head of its church. One of the reasons why I cancelled my membership of news site forums owned by the British is because they run atheists out of town.
The British are far more religious than Americans are, and they take their church - The Church of England - very seriously. It's part of the culture of the place, so that kind of response is understandable.
I suppose the same could be said of most countries that allow religion into their politics.
I like the way our country doesn't. Here there is no religion in politics, no hands on Bibles and prayers to start the day in government.
We still have God in our anthem though, Grrr.
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