Going to Hell On a City Bus, Athiest’s VS Christian Adverts!

Book cover via Amazon

Atheists put faith in ‘God-free’ advertising

A number of reports at first suggested the Godless were reluctant to dip into their pockets in the time-honoured fashion of true believers. But that was before Professor Richard Dawkins, best-selling author of The God Delusion, stepped in with his offer to match all contributions up to a maximum of £5,500.

Hell, Next Stop!

Bolding is mine.

The bold part still has me laughing.  I have the book mentioned, I’m a  fan of Dawkins.  He manages to word things in an understanding, thoughtful way.  I love the idea of this campaign, I know how many times I have been personally/ directly insulted due to my lacking of “belief”.   I have to admit to being surprised at this campaign either way.

My understanding of the purpose of this advertising campaign is to level the playing field, if England is anything like America with advertising, then you see the “religious messages” everywhere.  It’s understandable to want to also see a message that you can personally relate to.

I’m far from crying persecuted Atheist, it’s my “lack of” belief system, just as believing in a “higher power” is for someone else.   The only part I’m having issues coming to terms is the different approach.

Using the power of Google to illustrate my point, a quick search in google images, this is the first relevant ad:

Christian advert:

Okay a tad fire and brimstone for my linking.  I personally don’t believe in him, so I guess I’ll die.  Quite the bummer, maybe their site will tell me otherwise.

Now, that kind of is a tad insulting, but no matter.  I’ve been told worse.  Going to the website listed JesusSaid.org tell us;

What are the consequences if you reject the answer?
God’s wrath includes the prospect of eternal punishment – it is appointed to men to die once and then comes the judgment (Hebrews 9:27). You will rise from the dead and will face the Judge and know that you rejected His kind and merciful answer. You 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 which was prepared for the devil and all his angels (demonic spirits) (Matthew 25: 41).

Bold is theirs.

Oh my.  Well then, that is a predicament.  You see, I need a tad more proof aside from threats from an old and dusty book.  You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.  A bit fierce on the approach, but they do say these kinds of things are more for the believers anyway.  Again, no matter.  Doesn’t really change my mind or anything.  Life shall continue.

Now the Atheist Campaign (click the image to go to the source);

Not exactly the most powerful words ever written, the probably isn’t exactly going to win over millions of not believers.

Even if I agree (well, even if quite a bit more strongly in my own convictions) again, these kinds of things aren’t for the “opposing viewpoint” anyway.  Maybe they should work on the fear like the first one?

Although, the only thing that might incite is a bit of road rage, but hey it’s something right?

No, I am not advocating road rage

The message is about as powerful as anything I can come up with I suppose. Although, I think I’ve got a good one for Agnostics.  “Eh” being the whole of the campaign simply with a picture of someone shrugging their shoulders.  “RightToBeOnTheFence.com” could be their site.

You can take a look for yourself. That link is a google image result for “Atheist Advertising”, it’s a contest who can look the absolute silliest. I don’t think I can wade anymore through it all right now, so

Image by Shane Pope via Flickr

I’m giving you the link.  It’s a good old fashioned pi$$ing contest to be blunt (although a little entertaining, I will admit).

Seriously?  I can out non believe the best of them, one way or another please keep up the adverts!  They are at the very least entertaining.  Atheists, please work on it.

Please, for the rest of us non believers you can do better.  Work on some kind of rival logo or something.  Hell, it was done with the Darwin fish, we can do it with this too.

Professor Dawkins is not amused…

I’m Gonna Get Me One Of Those T Rexs

TRex Gate

(Go me, I finally coined a -gate term!)

In are you for real now news this struck me a absofrikkensterical*-

Dinosaurs, People, Creationism and Palin Oh my!  *almost* as funny as The Infamous Russia Comment.  *almost*

*That is until I realized this bat-shit insane thinker ( mandatory lol) could be in charge of the country/ nuke codes/ lord know what else.

Let me get this right, the world is 6,000 years old now?  Oh? Really?  You want to teach this to kids? Oh? Really?  Howzabout no, and not just no, a big steaming pile of Oh Hell No.  Are you serious?

 Now, you more than like think that I’m just “bashing her” due to my staunch support of Obama.  No.  I don’t like any of these people.  I’d really rather not have to make a choice of the lesser of two evils (don’t even suggest I vote for an independent, they haven’t exactly shown themselves to be exactly a good ticket). 

Creationist (giggle) Theory (giggle) in and of itself is something I read as if I’m reading oh I don’t know how about Cracked?   To get a damn good laugh.  The difference, Cracked writes stuff that makes a better point and most of it is a hell of a lot more believable and logical.

 

Dive By’s For God

 

Image via Wikipedia

I got myself verbally accosted for being a heathen. (not here, in that thing called real life).  Apparently I committed the crimes of all crimes -  I’m not religious (I know!), I got drive by God’d (TM).  Well in the name of accuracy, biked by.  They are a breed of Christian that is quite possibly the most tedious to deal with, Religious Intolerance on Bikes. 

Jez.  I wish I we’re kidding here, but you really need to take this journey with me, they dress up in a white dress shirt, black pants, black tie, bible, and a huffy.

The dip shit ran. into. me.  Trying to convert me.  Did he apologize? Did he offer to help me get up? Of course not.  The bastard blamed the devil.

They ride around looking for the heathen’s (of which I am proudly a member apparently).  Make attempts at converting, then attempt to run the devil out of you by riding their huffy after you praying loudly.

From those sentences you might think I reside along the bible belt.  You couldn’t be further from the truth.  I live in the fancy pants state.  Although one would figure that the damn high cost of living would afford me at the very least freedom from Nut jobs, sadly not at all. 

Why is it exactly, if I were to bike a stalk someone (also breaking two laws there, riding on theImage via Wikipedia sidewalk and nice little harassment charge) I would end up having to make bail.  The bike-by Christians- it’s fine. 

Next time, I’m planning on inserting my heathen baseball bat into their holy bike spokes. 

Blame the devil for that one.

 

 

Send Them All to Hell

People out there are some sick puppies.

Now, when I originally stumbled upon that site I knew humans could be scary.  This truly solidified this thought in my head.  If you go there, don’t eat first.  It’ s the worst kind of people imaginable, collected and displayed.  At the end of all the posts you have the option (unfortunately only in thought) to send the sick b@stards to hell.  It’s cathartic, but remember – once read you cannot unread this.

Although commenters at times go off on the expected “god rant” which can be pretty damn aggravating, because you know a poll on the Internet can actually send people off to an imaginary place with that red guy with hooves.