Those pro-atheism bus signs in Britain that I posted about a few weeks ago are still traversing the highways and byways of Eternal Albion, but not without some whinging on the part of the religious types. The guy who filed the complaint says that the ads violate the “truthfulness and substantiation” standards of the British advertising regulatory code.
This quote from campaign supporter and philosophy professor A.C. Grayling is priceless:
“The evidential basis for God is the same as for believing there are fairies at the bottom of the garden, and if you don’t believe the latter, you shouldn’t believe the former.”
In other words, put up your own proof or STFU. The ASA, the group that regulates adverts, rejected the complaint summarily.
Now, you too can be a secular rabble-rouser like Richard Dawkins and company, or strike a blow for zombie-lovers, or do whatever the hell you’d like with this Atheist Bus Sign Generator. No, you won’t be slapping banner ads on the sides of buses, but you CAN post them on your website so that the half a dozen people who read your blog every day will see it, and that’s ALMOST as good, right?
