Holy (not) f***!
Oct. 26th, 2008 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sesquipedalityThe Atheist Bus Campaign has raised over £100,000.
As a futile p***ing in the wind gesture it was rather amusing. Now that it's raised that kind of money, it just seems like a profound waste.
I always said Dawkins turned atheism into a religion. Now it's even more so - it's fleecing its followers for unnecessary gestures just like many other religions.
About the only good thing that can be said about it is that at least it does raise the profile of atheism/agnosticism in Britain. However, I wish the money had been spent on improving the life of people in Britain rather than on ads.
(In case you don't know, I'm Wiccan (in the disorganised rather than Gardnerian sense), not atheist or agnostic, but for practical purposes share a broadly humanistic approach to life with many atheists and agnostics.)
As a futile p***ing in the wind gesture it was rather amusing. Now that it's raised that kind of money, it just seems like a profound waste.
I always said Dawkins turned atheism into a religion. Now it's even more so - it's fleecing its followers for unnecessary gestures just like many other religions.
About the only good thing that can be said about it is that at least it does raise the profile of atheism/agnosticism in Britain. However, I wish the money had been spent on improving the life of people in Britain rather than on ads.
(In case you don't know, I'm Wiccan (in the disorganised rather than Gardnerian sense), not atheist or agnostic, but for practical purposes share a broadly humanistic approach to life with many atheists and agnostics.)
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Date: 2008-10-27 07:37 pm (UTC)