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Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success - Boing Boing
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Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success
Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 6, 2009 6:29 AM | permalink
A UK campaign to raise money to buy London bus-ads to promote atheism was a massive success -- 800 of the busses took 
the streets today, and the campaign is spreading around the world.

    Today, thanks to many Cif readers, the overall total raised for the Atheist Bus Campaign stands at a truly 
overwhelming £135,000, breaking our original target of £5,500 by over 2400%. Given this unexpected amount, I'm very 
excited to tell you that 800 buses – instead of the 30 we were initially aiming for – are now rolling out across the UK 
with the slogan, "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life", in locations all over England, 
Scotland and Wales, including Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, York, Cardiff, Devon, Leeds, Bristol and Aberdeen.

    From today's launch, two hundred of the buses will run in London, because the campaign was originally started as a 
positive counter-response to the Jesus Said ads running on London buses in June 2008. These ads displayed the URL of a 
website which stated that non-Christians "will be condemned to everlasting separation from God and then you spend all 
eternity in torment in hell … Jesus spoke about this as a lake of fire prepared for the devil". Our rational slogan will 
hopefully reassure anyone who has been scared by this kind of evangelism.
The atheist bus journey:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/06/religion-atheism