Is that a NO-EXIST sticker on the side of that bus?
Posted on 12/05/2010 2:20:54 PM PST by Justaham
The atheist group behind last year's controversial bus ads suggesting "there's probably no God" is rolling out a provocative new set of posters on buses across the country that places Allah beside Bigfoot and Christ beside psychics.
The new posters bear the slogan: "Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence" with "Allah, Bigfoot, UFOs, Homeopathy, Zeus, Psychics, Christ" listed below.
They will hit Toronto streetcars in January, pending final approval from the Toronto Transit Commission, said Justin Trottier, national executive director of the Centre for Inquiry, an atheist organization. After the Toronto debut, the organization plans to post the ads to buses in Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa, Saskatoon and Montreal.
"Why is belief in Bigfoot dismissed as delusional while belief in Allah and Christ is respected and revered? All of these claims are equally extraordinary and demand critical examination," says the campaign's website, www.extraordinary-claims.com.
Trottier insists the ads weren't designed to offend religious Canadians.
(Excerpt) Read more at vancouversun.com ...
Counting calendar years from????? Need better proof?
From Wikipedia:
Anno Domini (abbreviated as AD or A.D., sometimes found in the form Anno Domine) and Before Christ (abbreviated as BC or B.C.) are designations used to label years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The calendar era to which they refer is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure in Christianity, with AD denoting years after the start of this epoch, and BC denoting years before the start of this epoch.
Devil is trying hard.
I’ll give them this much: They say “evidence” where, these days, most people inaccurately use the word “proof.”
Ummm, no.
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Sometimes the script writes itself!!!!!
I would suggest that they should try to co-opt religious sentiment, rather than trying to undermine it with radical rationalist slogans. Maybe,
HUMANITY IS ONE
or how about,
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR ... BECAUSE WHY NOT?
Is that a NO-EXIST sticker on the side of that bus?
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