Atheist Buses 2
I should perhaps confess here and now that I have a bad catholic's liking for Blaise Pascal, so the 'Atheist' bus campaign that harmless confused Guardian readers and the nastier trendies are throwing their money away on makes me smile. It all kicked off because some Protestant evangelicals and Muslim organisations bought advertising space on the sides of buses last year.
I quite like the bus adverts, though the donors could have done something more uplifting and practical with their cash like, oh I don't know, giving it to The Campaign for Public Ownership.
Anyway, the great Catholic site In Hoc Signo Vinces has produced two pictures, which I hope that they don't mind me reproducing, as a risposte to the plans of the godless. This is what politics needs--gentle fun between people who disagree.
First up, what Jews should put on buses;
Secondly, this.
By the way, for the purposes of m'learned friends Professor Clinton R. Dawkins--'Clint'-- has the highest reputation, the slogan is clearly a joke based upon public comments about an aspect of political culture, and I do not, in reproducing this image, mean to do anything but illustrate a debate. I don't suggest that he is a fraud at all--in fact, I think him very upright in his attachment to scientific honesty, since he at least admits the vanishingly small possibility of proving God exists as a good scientist should. I think anyone who thinks that you can scientifically prove that is on a bullet-train to disappointment, first stop lalaland where the unicorns play.
I used to see Clint hanging around outside the caretaker's flat in the psychology buildings. I was there because Terry and Elsie, the caretakers, used to be the bedrock of the Holywell Oxford Labour Party (Elsie once made some jam to raise money for a council election I was a candidate in, or at least had a stall). I'm afraid he used to give me occasion to perpetrate an old Eric Morecambe joke, because he'd introduce himself, in true Balliol modest fashion, by saying 'Hello, I'm Richard Dawkins', to which the proper reply is, of course, 'it's not my fault'.
Any suggestions from the Greek Orthodox sodality welcome.
UPDATE: I love the web, but sometimes I find it hard to believe the evidence of my eyes. Apparently, Dawkins, Daniel Dennet, and all the usual suspects, have set up an organisation called 'the brights' which campaigns positively for a naturalistic worldview, and against what they see as 'supernatural superstition'. At least they put their money where there mouths are.
All you have to know about these people is that they don't know whether to call themselves 'brights' or 'supers'. Presumably the title 'illuminati Nietzsho-Hegelian ubermen' was already taken. Don't make me laugh. I couldn't find the John Belushi 'Uberman' video on the internet, so here is the great man being all scientific and illuminated, in the classical style.
I should perhaps confess here and now that I have a bad catholic's liking for Blaise Pascal, so the 'Atheist' bus campaign that harmless confused Guardian readers and the nastier trendies are throwing their money away on makes me smile. It all kicked off because some Protestant evangelicals and Muslim organisations bought advertising space on the sides of buses last year.
I quite like the bus adverts, though the donors could have done something more uplifting and practical with their cash like, oh I don't know, giving it to The Campaign for Public Ownership.
Anyway, the great Catholic site In Hoc Signo Vinces has produced two pictures, which I hope that they don't mind me reproducing, as a risposte to the plans of the godless. This is what politics needs--gentle fun between people who disagree.
First up, what Jews should put on buses;
Secondly, this.
By the way, for the purposes of m'learned friends Professor Clinton R. Dawkins--'Clint'-- has the highest reputation, the slogan is clearly a joke based upon public comments about an aspect of political culture, and I do not, in reproducing this image, mean to do anything but illustrate a debate. I don't suggest that he is a fraud at all--in fact, I think him very upright in his attachment to scientific honesty, since he at least admits the vanishingly small possibility of proving God exists as a good scientist should. I think anyone who thinks that you can scientifically prove that is on a bullet-train to disappointment, first stop lalaland where the unicorns play.
I used to see Clint hanging around outside the caretaker's flat in the psychology buildings. I was there because Terry and Elsie, the caretakers, used to be the bedrock of the Holywell Oxford Labour Party (Elsie once made some jam to raise money for a council election I was a candidate in, or at least had a stall). I'm afraid he used to give me occasion to perpetrate an old Eric Morecambe joke, because he'd introduce himself, in true Balliol modest fashion, by saying 'Hello, I'm Richard Dawkins', to which the proper reply is, of course, 'it's not my fault'.
Any suggestions from the Greek Orthodox sodality welcome.
UPDATE: I love the web, but sometimes I find it hard to believe the evidence of my eyes. Apparently, Dawkins, Daniel Dennet, and all the usual suspects, have set up an organisation called 'the brights' which campaigns positively for a naturalistic worldview, and against what they see as 'supernatural superstition'. At least they put their money where there mouths are.
All you have to know about these people is that they don't know whether to call themselves 'brights' or 'supers'. Presumably the title 'illuminati Nietzsho-Hegelian ubermen' was already taken. Don't make me laugh. I couldn't find the John Belushi 'Uberman' video on the internet, so here is the great man being all scientific and illuminated, in the classical style.
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