OK. Which one of you Toronto dopers started this copy-cat campaign?
Sunspace?
Who, me?
:: innocent look ::
I’m fine with it. We have ads on the buses that explicitly promote Christian thought (“Bus Stop Sermons” or something like that); why not have ads that promote atheist thought?
:: starts planning neo-pagan advertising campaign ::
Remind me to send them a note of encouragement. They’re probably getting flamed right now.
Calgary is doing the ads too!
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/01/27/no-god.html
Already the Calgary Catholic Bishop Fred Henry is up in arms, but he gets huffy about a lot of things.
Sweet I am all for equality, now we can bitch about the annoying atheist evangelism too!
What Would Sekhmet Do?
I have trouble believing Quebec wasn’t the first province to pick this up– did they have trouble with the translation?
The best part of the ads?
More cash for the TTC…that Downtown Relief Line isn’t going to build itself (I am stupidly excited that City Hall actually did something that was common sense.)
Yeah - it was all over the news last night in Calgary.
I find the whole thing quite funny.
Maybe they can replace one or two of the FIFTY MILLION Being Erica ads in Bloor. I was wondering how the CBC had managed to buy out the entire station. That would at least make my wait there more interesting.
In the linked article, there’s a rabbi quoted as saying he’s not happy with an ad campaign telling people there’s no god, so they can do whatever they want.
um…
That’s not what the ad says, sir. Stop worrying. Enjoy your life. That’s it.
Besides London, they’ve recently done the same thing (atheist ads on buses) in Barcelona.
I have to admit, I got a little outraged at one of those posters that was mostly all about how great the bible was. Right at the end, was this sentiment, roughly:
“And how do we know that everything in the bible is true? Well, I’m so glad you asked. It says so in the Bible!”
And it quotes a verse about how the scriptures are the word of God, or some such. I was going :smack::smack:
They ran a similar ad in Washington, DC around Christmastime, with ads on busses saying, “Why believe in a god? Be good for goodness’ sake.”
The day atheist missionaries come to my home trying to convert me I will have a very, very good laugh. 
Pbbtts!
These guys are amateurs! If the really want to stir the pot o’ shit; they should start an add campaign down here in the bible belt.
Like say, Dallas TX.
The fact that I live here is purely coincidental, I assure you.
Back when I rode the bus, I seem to recall most ads being for psychic hotlines, penis enlargement pills, get-rich-quick schemes and the like. These should fit right in.
There was a large article in today’s Toronto Star, on page GT2, which for some reason I can’t find online. But there was this: a church responds!
“The whole point is just to open the door to a discussion and it does that.”
“There’s probably no god.”
“There is, too.”
“Is not.”
“Is too.”
“Nuh-uh!”
Yeah, that’s some find discussion you’ve got going there.
It’s a start.
Calgary isn’t too far off culturally from Dallas, we may have a little less guns, but just as many bible thumping rednecks and Calgary is doing atheist busses. 