The Atheist Blogger

It took me a while to plan and execute, but my video for Current TV is up. I had 30 seconds to explain my views on religion, and I managed to do it within 45 (I expect some bits will be cut). I tried to make it appear as if I wasn’t just reading off a script (which I memorized anyway), and I think I appear quite relaxed in it. My hand movements and constant moving back and forth is most likely Tourettes being an ass.

Here is the video: http://current.com/items/89432918_an_atheist_s_view_on_religion

Anyway, I’ll let everyone know when the show goes on the air.

There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

The campaign to put the words “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” on bendy buses in London has been a tremendous success. The campaign started this morning and within a few hours had succeeded and passed it’s target by over £15,000.

The original target was £5,500, with Richard Dawkins matching the donations up to that value. This alone would have put the slogan on 2 sets of 30 buses for 4 weeks. Now, with the campaign getting more donations by the minute, the organisers, British Humanist Association, can either get more buses or more weeks (or both).

I’m gonna have to go into London and take some photos when they come out. Meanwhile, some quotes:

Religion is accustomed to getting a free ride - automatic tax breaks, unearned respect and the right not to be offended, the right to brainwash children. - Richard Dawkins

We see so many posters advertising salvation through Jesus or threatening us with eternal damnation, that I feel sure that a bus advert like this will be welcomed as a breath of fresh air.- Hanne Stinson, chief executive of the BHA

I certainly hope the campaign will get people talking, and I will be donating to it later today (every little helps). Fundamentalists however, were not pleased:

Bendy-buses, like atheism, are a danger to the public at large.

I should be surprised if a quasi-religious advertising campaign like this did not attract graffiti.

People don’t like being preached at. Sometimes it does them good, but they still don’t like it. - Steven Green, Christian Voice

Mr Green evidently doesn’t understand the difference between his kind of preaching (hateful and vindictive) and the slogan on the bus, which tells people there is probably no god, and also to stop worrying and enjoy life. I wonder which people would prefer?