London's Atheist Buses London buses next year will carry a poster . It will say 'There's probably no god; stop worrying and enjoy your life' or something along those lines. Richard Dawkins seems happy, since, apparently, people of faith don't think and this will make them. Good grief. I'd quite like to see the sort of phrase that would have made David Hume and Blaise Pascal smile on those trashy bendy buses. And, as a member of a church who'd be proud of a multilingual, brilliant pope who can think in Latin and who invokes the injunction 'credo ut intelligam' quite often, I'd be happy for people to think. Catholicism's logic (and most of the women attached to the church) are but two of the reasons to be attracted to it, along with the prospect of a monopsonist god who could turn water into wine and die for love. That's the thing, isn't it? You may or may not have faith, reader. It's none of my business. I know awful believers and...
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