Kiwi Atheists Swap Buses for Billboards

The NZ Atheist Bus Campaign will unveil billboards with friendly atheist slogans in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch this week.

While the precise wording of the three new slogans is intended to be a surprise, Mr Fisher says that all three designs will include the text “There’s probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life” borrowed from the successful UK bus campaign.

Despite similar campaigns being run internationally, the organisation’s plans to place ads on buses in New Zealand hit a brick wall earlier this year when NZ Bus accepted and then rejected the billboards, leading to the Campaign’s decision to take the issue to a tribunal

For more information and to donate, see http://www.nogod.org.nz/

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#1 written by nickandrew
about 1 year ago

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I don’t think that bus will convince many believers.

How about:

“There’s probably no Zeus”
“Isn’t it time to stop believing more ancient myths?”
#2 written by nickandrew
about 1 year ago

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http://www.nogod.org.nz has got the list up now. I like #3 the best!
#3 written by nickandrew
about 1 year ago

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I’ve always been troubled by the 2nd line, “now stop worrying and enjoy your life”. I don’t think that the believers are worrying and not enjoying their life as a direct consequence of their belief.

I suspect that most believers would agree with me. They have other things to worry about – money, job, family – and they are not worried about whether their god exists. They just sorta assume he does because everybody else does too, and few people think deeply about the matter.

So I’d like to see a worthy replacement for that 2nd line, one which doesn’t assume facts which I don’t think are true.
#4 written by nickandrew
about 1 year ago

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The billboard generator is awesome and so are many of the comments.

The one I wrote which I like the most is “I used to believe in God, and Jesus, and the rest of the fairy stories.”
#5 written by Michael Kingsford Gray
about 1 year ago

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Yes, that is good.

But I rather like my embedded example as I think it strikes the subtly correct balance of respect for theists’ nuanced ontological beliefs.
I admit that I could have been a little more direct and confrontational, but that’s just little-old-softy-accomodationist me!
#6 written by nickandrew
about 1 year ago

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You are too kind.