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Legal challenge to UK bus adverts
Posted on: January 9, 2009 - 7:45am
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Legal challenge to UK bus adverts
And so it begins. Some fuckwad has decided he wants to challenge the UK bus adverts saying "There's probably no god..." on grounds of 'truthfulness' and 'substantiation'
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It's interesting to note that this campaign was started by an individual not any particular organisation (The British Humanism Assocation ran the admin only).
British atheist groups bicker and argue with each other like they do everywhere else (herding cats?)
Damn! You weren't kidding. She's quite the looker.
I think that's terrific.
The idiot is almost certain to lose.
I'm not making any bets here...
BigUniverse wrote,
"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
I will be incredibly discouraged if he wins. It means that the British government is more or less just as sectarian as Hitch suggests it is.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
I'm not sure Hitchens is really that wrong.
Though, this is a gem and I am reminded of certain implications:
BigUniverse wrote,
"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
Bring it on, any enquiry about 'god probably not existing' will also have to apply to christian adverts saying he does
It can only be gold. Remember that bit where someone tried to sell their soul on ebay? The response from ebay was magnificent, so I expect they will seek that very same person out to write the response to this one. It was something along the lines of "If the soul is physical, then it's a body part, and ebay doesn't let you sell body parts. Neither does it allow the sale of non-physical things."
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
That seems like a reasonable decision to come to on ebay's part. But for the ASA to rule in favour of the Christian guy, the decision would have to be 'gold' indeed.
BigUniverse wrote,
"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
Love it. Funny as hell. Literally.
Is there a reason, if there is a reason, the theists cannot or donot counter by advertizing "there is a god"?
People who think there is something they refer to as god don't ask enough questions.
I noticed in the NPR story about this (which I just posted because I didn't see this one) someone mentioned that they didn't like the slogan because you cannot prove that god prolly doesn't exist.
Uh...
So...
Go ahead and prove he DOES, yo!
Stephen Green ?
This guy ? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYxY39GL64Y
Should be fun.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/06/religion-atheist-bus-campaign-national
Check out the hottie in the pic.
ANYWHO, we have done quite a bit here in the states, but nothing from a single campain to this scale mentioned in the article. It would be great if all the collective atheist organizations put their heads together to do something similer here.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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I suppose it depends on who's receiving the gold, and how many closet atheist judges there are who might enjoy delivering a thrashing to someone who wastes the court's time. It's not like English courts are just sitting around waiting for people to sue each other, and this kind of frivolous nonsense might raise the ire of any reasonable judge, regardless of their religious persuasion.
The bus campaign is cute, for crying out loud! I mean, it's puppies-and-kittens cute. So is the girl who initiated it. I hope the whole thing gets people more comfortable with the idea that atheists aren't monsters, and we can get to be people, too.
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
I absolutely agree with you on that Brian. I would love to make a splash in some big way. I also would love if it captured some of what is really going on in our community. For example, in the Michael Newdow thread, I gave a couple of examples of how we could show our support for atheism in the context of the Presidential inauguration while distancing ourselves somewhat from Newdow.
Obviously, we do not have the time to set those up but with a few weeks notice, we could have had other demonstrations going right at the same time. My favorite of the two ideas that I posted was to have Pastor Deacon Fred set up at the other end of the Mall and we could have a rally of our own. Heck but I would have been willing to offer myself up as a hard atheist willing to take the proxy oath as offered by Pastor Deacon Fred.
With the whole world watching and Michael Newdow being his usual pain in the ass self, I bet that news coverage could be had.
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