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Religious coverage is seen as a “rather tiresome obligation” by “secular and sceptical” BBC television staff, Radio 4’s Roger Bolton said. Bolton, according to the BBC today, called for the appointment of a BBC religion editor to improve coverage of faith matters. He was speaking at the Sandford St Martin Trust awards for religious programmes, [...]

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ATHEIST Bus Campaign posters were stripped off vehicles operated by the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority shortly after they were sponsored by Iowa Atheists & Freethinkers. The reason given for their removal was the use of the word “God”. Elizabeth Prusetti, chief development officer for the bus agency, said: We have never allowed that [...]

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THE threat of a lawsuit has changed minds over at Bloomington Transit, Indiana. The bus company was threatened with legal action after refusing to carry an ad – You Can be Good Without God – created by local atheists, but capitulated days before a preliminary injunction hearing was scheduled in the US District Court, in [...]

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THE Atheist Bus Campaign, which was launched in the UK then spread to many other countries, is about to hit Finland – despite opposition from a group of drivers with a religious bent. Leader of the group of dissenting bus drivers is Tapani Mäkinen, who conceded that there were few legal ways for Christian and [...]

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Barry Duke on March 21st, 2009

BENEATH an hysterical headline in today’s Dail Wail – How cash meant for promoting faith is going to an organisation that campaigns AGAINST Christianity – someone called Steve has left this comment: Christianity is dead in the UK – RIP bible bashers! As for the other muppet religions, they should be banned. Well done Labour, [...]

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Dave McKeegan on February 19th, 2009

SPARE a thought for “Proclaiming Truth In London”. The Christian evangelical group’s modest hope was that their Bible-quoting bus advert would hell-scare a few of the capital’s pedestrians into worshipping their zombie-god. Instead, it sparked a planet-wide atheist counter-revolution, with public transport in cities around the globe bearing messages which cast varying degrees of doubt [...]

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