Comments on: It’s a miracle! – Resurrected atheist bus campaign takes off like a rocket

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:15:16 +0000

Isn’t it funny how atheism can only grow if it is forced upon people by a totalitarian government or in the mist of affluence and greed as in the west. It is a dead belief, who got off drugs because they found atheism? No one! Who found a new meaning in their life because of atheism? No one! ‘I don’t need God because I have all the food I need, a warm home, free healthcare etc’. Everything good comes from God! Most atheists I know are not free thinkers, they have never truly looked into the Good News. True, some of them may have read it, but not with an open heart and mind but with hearts of stone. You want proof God exists, you’ll get it one day-every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is LORD! Until then it is by faith that we are commended. I’ll continue to pray for all atheists, I hope that some of you will listen to the doubts that God will place in your hearts and you may be saved. Until then, the only beneficiary from atheist or theist bus posters is the bus company-no atheist will be converted to Christ because of a poster, and no Christian will have his faith shattered by one. Everyone in between is to apathetic to care either way.

God bless you all!

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:34:48 +0000

This news is surprice me
I though iam just the minority for being atheist
I dont believed god do exist and religions are the reasons for power seeking to the creators.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:23:57 +0000

Couldn’t help noticing that The Freethinker is no fan of the smarmy Theos. Theos got oodles of publicity for their £50 donation to the Atheist Bus. However they seem less keen to own up to altering their press release after the campaign took off.

http://pogsurf.blogspot.com/20.....-from.html

By: benjamin chase

benjamin chase — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:12:55 +0000

Makarios’s comment – screw the world – eat, drink &bemerry is just so wrong.

Just look to the National Secular Society: human effort should be directed toward inproving the world

By: Adam Tjaavk

Adam Tjaavk — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:56:08 +0000

Over £90,000!
Ariane for Secularist of the Year!
- outstanding achievement!

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By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:46:22 +0000

Oh, there’s no point fighting over the slogan. It is what it is.

Me. I’d have preferred a “No more faith schools” message, or something a bit more practical. Because apart from saying “atheists exist and are willing to call themselves atheists”, which itself is something of a step for many people, this slogan doesn’t really *do* anything either to advance a cause or change minds.

I think it’s a shame to reflect that it would be very hard to get a similar level of donations in support of a more practical campaigning objective.

I thought the “stop worrying” bit meant “stop worrying about the existence of God”, rather than “stop worrying about the environment/pensions/the banking system/whatever”.

But I’m not *against* it, and it’s not without some value.

Dan

By: makarios

makarios — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:54:53 +0000

This bus campaign is simply the best idea ever to come out of the atheist crowd in Britain. Follow the logic:
In order to stimulate people to consider the position of atheism let’s tell people,

“God does not exist, therefore screw the world – Eat – Drink and be Merry.”

It’s priceless really.

I encourage atheists everywhere to donate as much as they can afford to keep this campaign going for as long as possible.

Actually, the only stunt that was even close to the genius of this one was Dawkins’ advising his followers to go up to people and say to them,

“I’m a Bright and you’re not. Would you like to become an atheist like me?”

By: Philip James

Philip James — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:54:06 +0000

This campaign has caught my imagination, and is great fun, but some of the associated comment is neither rational nor charitable. It is always easy to find religious over-reaction that can be ridiculed, but Richard Dawkins’ “thinking is anathema to religion” (quoted above) is no better. Failure to believe there is no God is not the same as complicity in the failings of organised religion. Where is truly “free” thinking?

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By: Tim Danaher

Tim Danaher — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:43:20 +0000

@Graham Nunn –

Interesting. Could you elaborate?

(Congrats on the artwork, BTW ;0)