Proof some Christians are just stupid

[James Hannam]

As some of you will know, some atheists have funded a bus advert saying there probably is no God.

Sadly, Christian Voice (the provisional wing of the evangelical movement in the UK) and a certain Clifford Longley (a 'distinguished' but previously unknown religious commentator) have complained to the advertising standards agency saying the bus advert is false.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7818980.stm
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/jan/08/religion-atheism-longley-advertising

Oh dear.

I would just say that the ASA allow Carlsberg to advertise itself as 'probably the best lager in the world' which is demonstrably false. It is, rather, probably the second worst lager in the world after Carling Black Label. So I doubt they are going to take the complaints very seriously. But I do despair of the capacity of Christians to shoot themselves in the foot at times.

Best wishes

James

[bjorn]

Is it possible to be more clueless?

Reading about such makes me almost understand Dawkins.

[humphreyclarke]

Good to see from the Andrew Brown piece that all the new atheist responses to the 'fine tuning' arguement are still crap. Seems like they have run out of things to say.

[turoldus]

Graylie gets on board:

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/07/atheist-bus-atheism

I would question the rationality of anyone who thought that there is probably no Father Christmas, or probably no fairies at the bottom of the garden, etcetera, and since such beliefs and beliefs in the gods of Olympus and Ararat and all other religions are on a par, there is no "probably" about it.

Will he ever get tired to write the same article over and over again, with the very same arguments, metaphors and comparisons?

[humphreyclarke]

Jan 9, 2009 23:38:14 GMT turoldus said:

Graylie gets on board:

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/07/atheist-bus-atheism

I would question the rationality of anyone who thought that there is probably no Father Christmas, or probably no fairies at the bottom of the garden, etcetera, and since such beliefs and beliefs in the gods of Olympus and Ararat and all other religions are on a par, there is no "probably" about it.

Will he ever get tired to write the same article over and over again, with the very same arguments, metaphors and comparisons?

Agreed. Someone needs to tell A.C that smearing Russell's chamberpot over 4 paragraphs in the Guardian Comment section is neither big nor clever.