Comments on: Atheistic Billboards Disturb God-Fearing America

By: Michael Brunton-Spall

Michael Brunton-Spall — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:08:21 +0000

@Steve Stewart
Hmm, comparing the picture that the guardian took, and the picture at the slogan generator, I’m pretty certain that it’s not the same picture. The people are in different places, the background behind the bus is different, and the slogan is tilted not straight.
So I’m going to go with the guardian has a real picture. Since one of their columnists organised the athiest bus campaign, they probably managed to get one of their photographers to take a picture at some point!

By: Steve Stewart

Steve Stewart — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:44:54 +0000

Intersting that the Guardian didn’t use a real photo of an advert on a bus, and instead used a bus slogan generator that you can find here – http://ruletheweb.co.uk/b3ta/bus/

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:23:19 +0000

I am waiting for the day when I see an atheist (sorry “non-theist”) preacher in the town center, passing out leaflets – and screaming out his message. That would be awesome if only for the fun of seeing it live.

Or perhaps, a bunch of scientists going around to a jehovah witness kingdom hall and passing out pamphlets from the Royal Society.

By: Gabby

Gabby — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:35:47 +0000

Jess xxx
The purpose of the billboards is to let like-minds know that they’re not as isolated and alone as they may think.

By: Gabby

Gabby — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:33:21 +0000

There was a billboard put up about fifty yards from my house in Cincinnati. It was pulled down in two days because the building owner received so many threats. When I asked one of my contacts at the police department whether the threats were being investigated (as they normally would) he basically told me not to hold my breath waiting for that one.
That’s the country I’m living in and exactly why atheists need to be more vocal and less afraid.

By: spiderabc1

spiderabc1 — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:42:18 +0000

@Aaron Smith “outside the reach of pure science” ??!?

By: Ethan Caine

Ethan Caine — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:03:35 +0000

I visited Texas last year and there were christian billboards EVERYWHERE. Also 40% of shop owners I talked to said “God Bless”, “Jesus Be With You” instead of “Have a nice day” like normal people would say.

This billboard I fear, would be burned to the ground the first night it was posted…

-Ethan
Twitter: @RealEthanCaine

By: Jess xxx

Jess xxx — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:33:27 +0000

‘Atheistic Billboards Disturb God-Fearing America’
Well, they would, wouldn’t they?

I don’t get this, to be honest. Yeah, atheists are perfectly at liberty to put up signs like this – it doesn’t hurt anyone – but what do they DO? I mean, no one forms a deep personal belief just by looking at a sign! It’s just like all those signs outside churches telling us that ‘Jesus is the way’ – you barely look at them, and wonder whether or not anyone would actually opt in to a belief based on what a sign told them to do.

But, if it’s a mostly Christian area, people do have a right to hear about different points of view, rather than be restricted to just one.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:24:43 +0000

Mr Aaron Smith’s misquotes Carl Sagan. The dictum is “Absence of PROOF is not PROOF of absence”. Absence of evidence isn’t really anything other than absence of evidence full stop. You are in fact quite free, if you so choose, to take absence of evidence as evidence of absence. But this is a conscious human choice, an act of will, and not a forced consequence of any rational logic.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:01:37 +0000

Bloody awesome the should it stick onto the buses here in Holland too.