Quote Originally Posted by bhouncy
That point was brought up on the radio show last night. The Humanist guy seemed to think there were lots of troubled confused unsure people out there that will be reassured by the ads. Personally I think the message is pretty weak and will make a tiny impact. I would prefer something like... "Is your religion lying to you? Find your own truth"
Yea "There probably isn't a God" is just lame. First off, 'Probably'? Hello? "There probably isn't an invisible, all powerful, immortal, physical-body lacking, world-creating creature floating around in the sky and occasionally getting virgins knocked up and flooding planets when he's pissed." (then we could get into his water-walking rising from the dead levitating up to heaven son too, but you get the point) Hello! This is 2008, not the freaking dark ages! Of course there isn't a God! Anyone with a grade-school education would laugh their asses off at religion if it hadn't been sold to them when they were too young to know better. Hell, Santa is more believable than all that crap - all he does is distribute presents once a year to little boys and girls who don't piss their parents off too much.

How bout "Morality is a product of humanity and civilization, not handed down by imaginary spirits - we don't need fantasies to be good people."

Or "Do good because it's the right thing to do... Not because someone told you when you were a little kid that Santa or Jehovah is going to reward you."

Or maybe "Less time praying, more time making the world a better place - this world is real, heaven isn't."

But no... they're raising cash to put "There probably isn't a God" on the side of a bus... Oh well.