Posted on 01/18/2009 7:33:12 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A plan to put atheist slogans on buses in Italy has been shot down by the Roman Catholic Church.
The campaign, which follows a similar one in Britain, had caused controversy in the deeply Catholic country.
The ads read 'The bad news is that God doesn't exist. The good news is that you don't need him' and were to have made their first appearance today in the streets of Genoa.
The city was targeted because it is home to the head of the Italian Catholic Bishops Conference Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, an outspoken opponent of artificial insemination and gay marriage.
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I knew there was a vile of testosterone somewhere in europe.
For some strange reason, I rather doubt their version of proseletyzing wins many converts.
wow.. rofl. There is hope for EU yet.
“I knew there was a vile of testosterone somewhere in europe.”
Only the left thinks testosterone is vile. :)
Perhaps you meant a “vial” of testosterone?
If people choose of their own free will to be atheists, I don’t mind one bit. After all, people are free to believe in what they want to. However, I do have a bit of a issue with atheists who basically try to shove their beliefs in my face, which is what those bus ads seem to be.
gnite.
Non-Faith is not a Faith.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2166190/posts?page=7#7
Imagine these ads: ‘The bad news is that Darwinism isn’t true. The good news is that you don’t need Darwin to understand the world’
‘The good news is that God exist. The bad news is that you can be miserable by yourself.’
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