Friday, 9 January 2009

Sitting on the Fence.

An atheist campaign claiming "There's probably no God" has been reported to the advertising regulator.
Posters with the slogan appear on 800 buses in England, Scotland and Wales, as well as on the London Underground.
But organisation Christian Voice has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority saying they break rules on substantiation and truthfulness. In other words if you can't prove any claims made in an advert your advert is breaking the law. Unless God himself turns up any day now and says, "There is No God" the adverts might have to come down. But this is a two edged sword because lots of adverts appear in side buses proclaiming, "Jesus can help you." so the christians should now be made to prove this statement with facts, not hearsay.

"There's Probably No God", is a bit wishy washy, rather like a larger advert which claimed to Probably the Best Larger. Can't remember which larger the advert was for, sorry.

This advert hasn't yet appeared on any buses in Torquay, not that I have noticed anyway. Once Torbay Council had a shop keeper take down an image of the Buddha saying it was a Pagan (1) image so any buses that drove round the Bay with this sign on might end up off the road in double quick time.

(1) Pagan means any none mainstream religion. I think Buddhism is a fairly mainstream religion which means some one in the Town Hall didn't have a dictionary.

4 comments:

Dave said...

You are 'probably' right Dave. I can't see any reason why they should come down. They are not stating it as an abslute fact are they?- Dave

Anonymous said...

Good luck for sunday David .
Can't wait to see some photo;s featuring SUNSHINE ;)

Anonymous said...

They should invesitgate the Bible.

Lord Hutton said...

Dawkins for the Cup!
About time the Unbelievers struck back for commonsense!