Originally posted by greshnik
All I can say is I would NEVER drive a bus like that.
I am 100% sure that atheists would strongly oppose positive messages about God on buses. They would start a revolution to remove them.
Atheists are very, very close to communists. Same mentality, same ruthless ideas...one step from mass murder.
Up to this point, I was just going to let this thread be, but I couldn't stand by and let this tripe go unanswered.
I am an atheist, in a manner of speaking. I think there isn't a God and I find it more probable that humanity was seeded by Aliens.
That said, my 5 year old daughter goes to a Church of England school and attends a Church service every Thursday during school time, as well as daily
prayers in the morning and at lunch.
Yesterday on the way back from school, she was telling me about God, the devil, heaven, hell, what happens when you die, Good vs Evil etc.
Now, according to you, I should be spitting feathers, farting lava and calling for a Neo-Crusade against all believers, yet I actually engaged her on
the topic in a non-biased way and just asked her all about what she learnt.
I never once said I believed it too be wrong, or told her not to listen to her teachers or Priest. Whatever
I think on the subject shouldn't
be what
she thinks on the subject, I'll let her form her own opinion.
Nor will I march down to the school and demand she be withdrawn from such practices. At the end of the day, it will provide her with a good moral
grounding at the very least, regardless whether the stories are true or not.
She will learn in her own good time what to believe and being only 5, she would believe me if I told her
I am God. In many way's, I am sure
she thinks this anyway
(she asked me to stop it raining the other day!!)
As for the topic, I think the bus driver is entitled to his views, however, he is not within his employment rights to refuse to work based upon an
advert on the bus. Such buses carry messages from many faiths, does he worry about blasphemy, idolatry or other such nonsense then? What about adverts
from the Army, found on almost every bus in the UK (buses children use too!), would he have the same support from you guys if he was a pacifist and
refused to do his job?
What about the people made late by that particular bus failing to turn up? What about their rights? Personal freedom only goes so far until you start
to affect other people around you, then you have to start drawing boundaries. If he felt so strongly about this advert, his company would have had an
HR department to file a grievance with, whereupon they would probably have re-assigned him with minimal fuss to another route which doesn't carry the
advert.
In my line of work, I have to look after a network that ensures the National Grid has control over the flow of electricity. I am strongly against coal
and oil power stations. Should I refuse to do my job and cause a power station to go offline, or worse, be damaged by my actions? Of course not,
becuasde my personal beliefs are just that and any action I took upon them that impacted the lives of others over steps the mark.
