Posted on July 31, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
The atheist bus campaign in Indiana has averted a legal showdown and won the right to display its ads.
From the beginning, the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign said it knew it was going to win the fight against the Bloomington Public Transportation Corporation.
After two months, the campaign was given the OK to run the ad “You [...]
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Posted on May 24, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
The atheist bus campaigns remain in full swing. Several major cities have ads running on their city buses now (with lawsuits pending where some places illegally discriminate). Discussion is being prompted and the apocalypse still hasn’t happened. Success.
Oh, and the latest ad:
In the Beginning, Man Created God
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Posted on March 13, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
The atheist bus campaign has been whirling around the globe over the past several months. It was briefly stopped in Ottawa because of a stupid policy that states this:
…religious advertising which promotes a specific ideology, ethic, point of view, policy or action, which in the opinion of the city might be deemed prejudicial to other [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
The atheist bus campaign was done with two goals in mind: get people talking about not believing and help them to stop needless worrying. Of course, the second point to that was unlikely to occur, but the intent was at least there. Now some Christian groups, instead of desiring to improve the lives of their [...]
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Posted on January 13, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
It’s become quite popular, especially since the release of The God Delusion, for the proponents of religion to throw certain terms on to their secular counterparts. Take for example this excerpt from a recent interview with Richard Dawkins.
So, ironically, you have an evangelistic zeal about this.
As a science teacher, it is an important thing. “Evangelistic” [...]
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Posted on November 27, 2008 by Michael Hawkins
Let’s just jump right into an article by Dinesh D’Souza.
But of late atheism seems to be losing its scientific confidence. One sign of this is the public advertisements that are appearing in billboards from London to Washington DC. Dawkins helped pay for a London campaign to put signs on city buses saying, “There’s probably no [...]
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Posted on November 26, 2008 by Michael Hawkins
The Atheist Foundation of Australia has recently been given a blow. Following in the footsteps of other atheist and humanist organizations, the AFA sought to place ads on the sides of buses, hoping to get their message out to the general public. Unfortunately, one ad company simply refused to allow them ad space without comment.
President [...]
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