How to donate to the Atheist Bus Campaign


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This is great!

Now, say for example I
tried to do this in certain
parts of my country…

I’d get shot. By several
people at once within 5 minutes
too. Probably. Then they’d have
a pig roast and slap each other
on the back. Happy ending. Now
pass that full magazine with the
high-powered rounds to me,
Bubba. I gots to reload.

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Absnasm has high apple-pie in the sky hopes for 2010!

Well, quite.

And what a Christian attitude that is. I have to say that I am extremely grateful to live in a country where religion isn’t a major – or even minor – deal-breaker in terms of politics, relationships, employment and so on.

I mentioned to a friend last night that I’ve lost a few subscribers recently, and they suggested that this post may have something to do with it. There’s no way to prove that, but if it’s true, fine, I don’t really want subscribers who’d decide they don’t want to associate with me the second I reveal my ungodly colours. On the other hand, I have been touting my rebellious witch-whoriness around for quite some time now, so perhaps it’s something else.

LOL!

That reminds me when I
had a spate of subscribers
after I picked my <))){ symbol
and (I guess) they associated
that with the Christian fish.

How surprised they were and
how quickly I lost a bunch of
subscribers!

Oh well. It sucks being polytheistic
in a monotheistic country.

))){

Saturnsglow Life is a plethora of labyrinthian complexity...yet still so simple.

...

that’s funny…

trancegeek spreading Mojo!

Subscribers

I don’t have that many subscribers – But I defiantly lose the odd one now and again when I go one one of my Atheist rants, or at least that could be the case.

Who knows though.

Absnasm has high apple-pie in the sky hopes for 2010!

Really?

Interesting. It’s really hard to tell if that is the reason. It could be pure coincidence. Of course, the fact that they’re gone means we can’t really ask for confirmation. Meh.

calypte snowed in!!!

I suspect it's true

I know I once – aaaages ago – unsubscribed from someone whose posts started having strong religious slants. I just don’t really want to read anyone’s views on “growing in christ” or whatever. So I’d guess the reverse also held true – if your posts sit uncomfortably with someone’s beliefs, they probably don’t want to find them in their subscription feed.

lucyann2 I'm special

I think, for many Christians (and other monotheistic faiths) any declaiming of “the Lord” can be hurtful and taken to be offensive. If, from the moment you are born onwards you are told as fact that there is a God, that He is watching you, taking care of you, loving you and constantly involved in your life then you’re going to have an emotional response when someone tells you that “It’s not true”. Imagine your childhood and earliest memories but instead of just having one Dad you also have an invisible Daddy too. Everyone in your family loves and respects this invisible dad, they tell you that everything you have, love and cherish has been provided for by “Our Father who art in Heaven”. Many Christians feel a love for God as strong as the love for their parents, it’s a deep emotional and personal bond and therefore if someone puts a big sign on a bus saying “There probably is no God” then it’s distressing because it would be like saying to you “Absnasm, you made your Dad up, he’s a figment of your imagination and all that love you have and feel has been reciprocated by him is fake too.”
As someone who was brought up a Christian but then realised she didn’t believe at about 15 I can see both sides of the coin. My rational mind does not believe in God, I think it is a made up concept. However, interestingly, I still feel a certain amount of emotional attachment to the concept of God. I still sometimes envy those people who still have faith and have the comfort of having that “loving” relationship. When my brain clicked and I realised there was no God it was a bit like someone dying. I think I grieved for the loss of “the invisible dad” because his existance was once so real to me.
Like a lot of things in life, we can rationalise our thoughts but not the emotional response we have regarding those thoughts. If, from a baby you are told there is a God and your parents and teachers and the government and all authority figures are telling you the same and you are sheltered and steered away from anyone who says different then you will believe that there is a God. Belief, for me, is one of the most facinating philosophical concepts. It’s not the faith itself that creates wars, political problems, hostility and genocide it’s the emotional response to having that faith that causes the damage.

loveinthecure is content

did you say

“Now stop worrying and enjoy your life” – sweet – I am so glad I saw this. I am going to go share it with a ton of those I know…....that statement applies to EVERYONE no matter one’s beliefs. Worry is about as worthless as the idea that there is need.

Absnasm has high apple-pie in the sky hopes for 2010!

Absolutely.

Now will you please call my mum and explain that to her?

loveinthecure is content

If it was that EASY

I’d be in seventh heaven – “HEY, GET OFF THE WORRY TRAIN!” and then they’d do it – wow – we’d have so many healthy people in this world we wouldn’t even know what to do with them all! I know worry creeps in for me every once in a while but I sure know its value and that allows me to turn that fountain of ooze off ASAP!

I for one like it when users of 43Ters are fearless in being themselves. Cheers.

Absnasm has high apple-pie in the sky hopes for 2010!

That's great.

A lot of people don’t have that ability. Maybe you should teach it to people. I quite often see Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Worrying book and consider buying it for my parents. But they’re such cynics that I think they’d just laugh. Worrying’s served them well so far… in that it’s kept them exactly where they are.

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Absnasm has high apple-pie in the sky hopes for 2010!

Just out of interest, which comments bother you?

I agree that such hatred towards religion isn’t necessarily the ideal result of such a campaign, but it may well be an automatic one. For centuries atheists have been suppressed, ignored and persecuted, so it’s hardly surprising that the second there’s a movement that unites them and gives them a voice, the frustration spills out in strong words. It’s a classic reaction. And in comparison with the violence religion has historically been responsible for (and still is), it’s nothing, really.

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Absnasm has high apple-pie in the sky hopes for 2010!

Yes, they could.

I’m tempted to say, well, tough, taste of their own medicine!

The “probably” is apparently there because, legally, the advert isn’t allowed to say that there isn’t a god. There’s no actual proof there isn’t, just as there’s no actual proof there is. It’s like the “Probably the best lager in the world adverts”.

Having said that, if there are adverts going around saying “If you don’t believe in God you’ll burn in a lake of fire for all eternity”, they should be in serious trouble. It being written in the bible isn’t proof enough for it to be legally binding.

Maggie the cat is starvin' like Marvin'.

Cool bus.

Too bad it’d get stoned ‘round these parts!! That makes me want to get stoned.

KellietheWhat Who ate my Hershey Kisses?!

Ho my god....

I love it… I’m really sick of Christians. I was on Facebook (aka virtual tent revival) and some dude I used to party-it-up with back in the day posted this: “What would you do if you knew Jesus was coming in the next couple of hours?” I said, “Look busy.”

(I stole it from a bumper-sticker)

Absnasm has high apple-pie in the sky hopes for 2010!

"What would Jesus do?"

Nothing. He’s dead.

I have never heard the expression “tent revival” before. Madness. I’m fairly sure we don’t have anything like that here, or if we do it’s marginalised enough not to get in my face.

KellietheWhat Who ate my Hershey Kisses?!

Whaaat?!

Never heard of a tent revival?! Why you can find ‘em on most any empty lot around here! Of course, the closer you get to poverty the easier they are to spot…

(A tent revival is nothing more than a bastardization of the tambourine, just so ya know….)


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