Thursday, February 05, 2009
Christians plan response to Atheist bus adverts.
A trinity of Christian groups have created their own series of advertisements to run across London buses... The new campaign is organsied by the Christian Party, the Trinitarian Bible Society and the Russian Orthodox Church... In a somewhat cheeky move, the Rev George Hargreaves of the Christian Party has created a bus advert which proclaims: "There definitely is a God. So join the Christian Party and enjoy your life."
Now, I definitely have no problem with this. My one concern is that the Humanists had to put the 'probably' into 'there probably isn't a God' in order to cover themselves from complaints by any fundamentalist wackos that happened to be passing. Will there be any double standard if an atheist complains about the definitive nature of these pro-imaginary being statements? What if we have atheist bus drivers too 'shocked' and 'horrified' to drive buses with those advertisements on?
It's unclear whether the charmless bigots have a position on this yet as they are busy helping to advertise the University of Saint Andrews' amateur performance of Jerry Springer The Opera for them. Isn't that the very spirit of Christian charity?
A trinity of Christian groups have created their own series of advertisements to run across London buses... The new campaign is organsied by the Christian Party, the Trinitarian Bible Society and the Russian Orthodox Church... In a somewhat cheeky move, the Rev George Hargreaves of the Christian Party has created a bus advert which proclaims: "There definitely is a God. So join the Christian Party and enjoy your life."
Now, I definitely have no problem with this. My one concern is that the Humanists had to put the 'probably' into 'there probably isn't a God' in order to cover themselves from complaints by any fundamentalist wackos that happened to be passing. Will there be any double standard if an atheist complains about the definitive nature of these pro-imaginary being statements? What if we have atheist bus drivers too 'shocked' and 'horrified' to drive buses with those advertisements on?
It's unclear whether the charmless bigots have a position on this yet as they are busy helping to advertise the University of Saint Andrews' amateur performance of Jerry Springer The Opera for them. Isn't that the very spirit of Christian charity?
Labels: adverts, atheism, atheists, Christian Voice, Fundamentalists- Christian, Jerry Springer The Opera, religion, Stephen Green
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Atheist Campaign on Tube Train- Third Poster
An atheist UK bus campaign which uses the slogan "There's probably no God" does not breach the advertising code, a watchdog has ruled.
Yes, the complaints that tedious bankrupt Stephen Green encouraged people to send from charmless bigots HQ, otherwise known as the Christian Voice website, have been turned down, on the grounds they were dumb. I wait to see whether Green will now try to sue the ASA or whether he'll go back to begging in the street for the money to pay the BBC's bill.
Labels: adverts, atheism, Christian Voice, Flickr, Fundamentalists- Christian, religion, Stephen Green
Friday, January 16, 2009
Atheist Campaign on Tube Train
Friday, January 09, 2009
Atheist Campaign on Tube Train
Friday, August 10, 2007
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
This is exactly how I feel when I sit down to watch legal DVDs such as Boston Legal ). [via BoingBoing]
Labels: adverts, DVDs, piracy, Television
Friday, February 23, 2007
An exhaustive twenty seconds of looking at Google seems to suggest I'm not alone in my despisement (despisiminination?) of the Wrigley's Gum 'Mastication for the Nation' ads running on TV and in the cinema at the moment. A Rasta poet is performing his latest epic on tasteless chewing gum, someone gives him some Wrigley's and overcome with the flavour he abandons the gig, and spacetime, to float a boat down the Thames to announce the news to anyone in loudhailer range. As he's floating past the Houses of Parliament the ad comes to an end, presumably because as he's black and shouting the police assume he's a terrorist and blow the boat to pieces. It's impossible to point to one specific thing that sucks about this advert, it has an all-pervading whiff of evil about it, from the appalling gurning of the guy playing the poet to the annoying nudge-nudge of the slogan, "'Mastication' ay? Do you like to 'masticate' squire? I bet you do, I bet you do!"
If, for some reason, you wish to learn more, the official website is, unsurprisingly, at masticationforthenation.com. What's extra-specially annoying is that here's another ad campaign that's co-opted the vocabulary of 'revolution' to flog us goods.
If, for some reason, you wish to learn more, the official website is, unsurprisingly, at masticationforthenation.com. What's extra-specially annoying is that here's another ad campaign that's co-opted the vocabulary of 'revolution' to flog us goods.
Labels: adverts, annoying, Television
