Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success

Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success

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A UK campaign to raise money to buy London bus-ads to promote atheism was a massive success -- 800 of the busses took the streets today, and the campaign is spreading around the world.

Today, thanks to many Cif readers, the overall total raised for the Atheist Bus Campaign stands at a truly overwhelming £135,000, breaking our original target of £5,500 by over 2400%.

From today's launch, two hundred of the buses will run in London, because the campaign was originally started as a positive counter-response to the Jesus Said ads running on London buses in June 2008. These ads displayed the URL of a website which stated that non-Christians "will be condemned to everlasting separation from God and then you spend all eternity in torment in hell … Jesus spoke about this as a lake of fire prepared for the devil".

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Related News Links:The atheist bus journey including video
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Related AboveTopSecret.com Discussion Threads:
All aboard the atheist bus campaign

[edit on 6/1/2009 by nerbot]

This is great, it's about time messages like this were seen by the general public and provide an uplifting welcome and a more truthful message to the fear that some religions try to instill in people.

Note the POSITIVE use of the word "probably" in the advertising campaign, letting people know that nothing like the existance of a god can ever be KNOWN.

More good news is that this campaign is becoming International and already running in Spain, Italy and the United States.

Here's to free and open thinking. Here's to life with or without god.

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[edit on Tue Jan 6 2009 by Jbird]