Atheists adverts?

[Opsa]

My atheist sister pointed out that "Beware of Dogma" is available in a bumper sticker here: http://www.ffrf.org/shop/products/details.php?cat=bstickers&ID=BS7

Monty Python deserve postage stamps. I wonder if they'd mind us using their images on custom stamps

[Griffin NoName]

Looks like the Advertising Standards Authority may have to rule on the existence of God.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7818980.stm

If the industry regulator decides to investigate, it could end up effectively ruling on the likelihood of God's existence.

I don't see a problem. Surely all they have to do is get in touch with Him and ask for proof He exists? Seems to me it is just a run of the mill issue for the ASA, like whether certain soap powders really do wash whiter than white.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Wouldn't that apply to churches themselves? Which one will take their customers to heaven, the Catholic? Lutheran? Orthodox? Evangelic? Or perhaps the orthodox jew? Or the chiite muslim? How would the board certify the claims of each brand?

[Griffin NoName]

Wouldn't that apply to churches themselves? Which one will take their customers to heaven, the Catholic? Lutheran? Orthodox? Evangelic? Or perhaps the orthodox jew? Or the chiite muslim? How would the board certify the claims of each brand?

Yes, indeed. Let us not forget we live in modern times. The next campaign must demand brand certification !

Mind you, British Jews got a Board in 1760 - curiously they refer to Deputies rather than Apostles (and they have upped the numbers somewhat)

[The Meromorph]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7832647.stm

Bus Driver refuses to drive bus.

[Griffin NoName]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7832647.stm

Bus Driver refuses to drive bus.

Why does this remind me of the Registry Office employee who just lost her case for refusing to conduct civil partnerships for people of identical genders?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7832647.stm

Bus Driver refuses to drive bus.

Yet, he willingly drove buses advertising cigarettes, booze and other products that create ill health....

...can anyone say 'hypocrite"?

Good.

[Griffin NoName]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7832647.stm

Bus Driver refuses to drive bus.

Yet, he willingly drove buses advertising cigarettes, booze and other products that create ill health....

...can anyone say 'hypocrite"?

Good.

I think it's lik the hypocritic oath some doctors adhere to !!   

[Gloria The Camel]

This sort of religious intolerance really gets me annoyed, it's just pure arrogance.

[beagle]

The ASA Hath pronounced.

As hath The Vatican.

[Gloria The Camel]

Excellent! That's the bestnews I've read all day!

As for the Article on the church, that's the most annoying article i've read all day! I know we're supposed to be tolerant, humble, etc. etc. But god [pun] I hate religion, specially the catholic church.

[beagle]

You can always still love the religious but hate the religion

As a general rule I'm more bemused than enraged by religion, but then I've never lived anywhere where it still has a firm grip on the levers of power.
Hating the Church of England would be more like hating a Labrador puppy than a Rottweiler.

[Gloria The Camel]

But it's not the religion its self that causes all the problems, it's the religous who take them too seriously!

It's the people who read the bible as something other than a story book to gain morales from!

[beagle]

Good point.

I just couldn't resist the temptation to swap the epithets in "Love the sinner and hate the sin".   


While we're on the subject, meet the next inhabitants of the Craggy Island parochial house.

[Griffin NoName]

It puzzled me that the ASA allows religious ads that tell you about being burnt in hell by the flames of the devil and suffer eternal damnation - I realise no one can prove they won't be, but aren't there any restrictions on how scary an advert can be?  Would they allow "If you eat another Big Mac, your stomach will be stapled together, and the next you do it you will explode and die." - { quite a good anti-bad-eating advert IMHO }