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Thanks to a reminder by the Friendly Atheist, I have now pre-ordered my copy of Ariane Sherine’s latest book “The Atheist’s Guide To Christmas”:

Unfortunately, there's probably no Christmas either...

The book comes out in the UK on October 1st, and Brits can pre-order a copy through Amazon (sorry Yanks). Whilst you are there, don’t forget to pre-order a copy of Richard Dawkins new book, “The Greatest Show on Earth” if you haven’t already (what on earth were you waiting for?!?).

Dawkins’ book is of course about Evolution, whilst Ariane’s is a compilation of tips offered by scientists, comedians, authors, etc in order to help you survive the Xmas holiday. All that we have left to wonder about is how many other things we can use that font (and indeed the colour scheme) on before it gets old. Perhaps we could make some un-festive “There’s probably no god” wrapping paper?

Now what are you waiting for? The post is over! Go order the books! Ariane Sherine reported earlier on Twitter that the book was now at the #34 spot on Amazon’s future releases chart. 34??? Methinks that score needs vast improvements! Let’s have it at #1 position by the end of the week; if we did it for the Atheist Bus Campaign, we can do it for a book.

Update: Aparently Ariane reads my blog, and has kindly given me a hi-res image of the book cover. Now you have literally no excuse not to pre-order it!

My recent article on how we should respond to Christian bus adverts asked a simple question. Should we complain or refrain? Here is a new poll to see what readers think.

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Friendly Atheist has linked to an “atheist bus advert” generator, so I thought I would do my best and tackle an issue that has been with the adverts since the start of the campaign. My advert probably won’t be on buses any time soon though!

THERE IS NO GOD!

Whilst the message isn’t really philosophically accurate (especially given my position as an agnostic atheist), you can’t deny it would turn some heads! For those confused, the ASA is the “Advertising Standards Authority” which determined that a statement like “THERE IS NO GOD” wouldn’t be legal, and Christian Voice are the arses who filed numerous complaints about the adverts.