Missing from the news item below, is that the money raised is being funneled through the British Humanist Association!
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Thank heaven for a British faith in bet-hedging
by Jemima Lewis
Sunday Telegraph (UK), p. 28
October 26, 2008
It must be lonely, sometimes, being an ardent believer in nothing. Where do atheists go to meet their fellow irreligionists? How does one feel a part of something that has no meeting house, no rituals and no shared faith except in the absence of anything to have faith in?
So thank something – a random series of atomic events leading to the creation of human intelligence, perhaps – for the internet. This is where like-minded folk of a nullifidian bent come together, as demonstrated by the extraordinary success of a campaign to raise money for Britain’s first atheist advertisements.
The idea was first mooted by Ariane Sherine, a 28-yearold television scriptwriter, on a website. Having had her atheist sensibilities offended by an advertisement on a London bus bearing a quotation from the Gospel of St Luke, Sherine decided the time had come for nonbelievers to fight back. She asked readers to donate towards the £23,000 cost of launching a bus advert with the slogan: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
