Is God On The Bus? Advertisers Believe He Probably Isn’t
The Journal (United Kingdom), p. 7.
January 7, 2009
ADVERTS declaring “there’s probably no God” have been placed on 55 buses around Newcastle after an unprecedented fundraising campaign.
A total of 200 bendy buses in London and 600 buses across England, Scotland and Wales will carry the slogan following a fundraising drive which raised more than £140,000.
They feature lines doubting the existence of God, and celebrating the natural world, written by Albert Einstein, Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Adams and Emily Dickinson.
It is the first atheist advertising campaign in Britain, and similar adverts are running on public transport in America and Spain.
Ariane Sherine, a writer who first thought of the bus adverts, said: “You wait ages for an atheist bus, then 800 come along at once. I hope they will brighten people’s days and make them smile on their way to work.”
