I am now officially

[AnneSally]

Ashamed of my country.

"All aboard the atheist bus campaign"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/21/religion-advertising

So much for atheists and secularists espousing "atheism isn't a religion, it's not a belief system" -- blah blah, whatever.


God help Britain. God please forgive us.

 

[Henaynei]

free speech at work.... taking the bitter with the sweet.... if we can talk, so can they....

some things about free speech can be hard to swallow, I admit....

as far as a country needing forgiveness, the US is in line right beside you....

 

[AnneSally]

free speech at work.... taking the bitter with the sweet.... if we can talk, so can they....

Right, and the next time an atheist tries to run that lame line that they have more times than I can remember ----> "but atheism is not a belief system, it's not a religion, it's not something organised," I'll be sure to refer them to their "campaign."

 

[AnneSally]

some things about free speech can be hard to swallow....

yeah, especially when they try to tell me that atheism isn't a religion or a belief system and then start organising a campaign on the buses.

 

[Henaynei]

Right, and the next time an atheist tries to run that lame line that they have more times than I can remember ----> "but atheism is not a belief system, it's not a religion, it's not something organized," I'll be sure to refer them to their "campaign."

you GO girl!!!

 

[Henaynei]

of course it is a religion - religion is belief ABOUT G-d - even if that belief is that he doesn't exist.

 

[AnneSally]

of course it is a religion - religion is belief ABOUT G-d - even if that belief is that he doesn't exist.

Totally, and that's what I've argued with them for YEARS, but they NEVER have that, they never accept it, but now they'll have to swallow it because their campaign now shows it.

 

[Catherineanne]

Ashamed of my country.

"All aboard the atheist bus campaign"

I'm not. I am rather proud that our brand of atheism is not the strident kind, and even when trying to promote its message, says only that God probably doesn't exist.

Only in Britain could this happen, and I think it is truly wonderful.

I have seen plenty of the Alpha advertising all over the place, and nobody complained about that, so why not let the other side have a go? Nobody dies, nobody is hurt; nobody breaks windows or burns effigies in the street; that is what a free country is all about. We can be truly proud that we live in a country where Christians can tolerate atheism, without resorting to violence against them. And vice versa.

There is much for any country to ask God's forgiveness for, but a bus campaign? I doubt it bothers him, one little bit.

 

[AnneSally]

I'm not. I am rather proud that our brand of atheism is not the strident kind, and even when trying to promote its message, says only that God probably doesn't exist.

Only in Britain could this happen, and I think it is truly wonderful.

I have seen plenty of the Alpha advertising all over the place, and nobody complained about that, so why not let the other side have a go? Nobody dies, nobody is hurt; nobody breaks windows or burns effigies in the street; that is what a free country is all about. We can be truly proud that we live in a country where Christians can tolerate atheism, without resorting to violence against them. And vice versa.

There is much for any country to ask God's forgiveness for, but a bus campaign? I doubt it bothers him, one little bit.

Oh I have no problem with freedom of speech, but this is the last straw for me. London will stage the Olympics with Europes largest Mosque as its centrepiece. Is Britain a Muslim nation? No it is not. And now campaigns by Richard Dawkins and his ilk....whatever. I believe what David Pawson said is true now.

 

[AnneSally]

There is much for any country to ask God's forgiveness for, but a bus campaign? I doubt it bothers him, one little bit.

Yeah, and the MESSAGE of the campaign that He probably doesn't exist even though He sent His only Son to die for us, I dunno, maybe it doesn't bother Him.

 

[Catherineanne]

Yeah, and the MESSAGE of the campaign that He probably doesn't exist even though He sent His only Son to die for us, I dunno, maybe it doesn't bother Him.

Tell me, what did those buses say last week?

Nobody knows, and nobody remembers.

So much for bus campaigns. God is not bothered.

 

[AnneSally]

I'm not. I am rather proud

Well I'm not.

I not "PC" and I'm not proud of an officially Christian nation which has a Mosque as it's centerpiece when it will stage the Olympic games, and I'm not proud of buses riding around the streets of London advertising that "God probably doesn't exist."

 

[AnneSally]

God is not bothered.

Is He not? And when did He tell you that?

 

[Catherineanne]

Oh I have no problem with freedom of speech, but this is the last straw for me. London will stage the Olympics with Europes largest Mosque as its centrepiece. Is Britain a Muslim nation? No it is not. And now campaigns by Richard Dawkins and his ilk....whatever. I believe what David Pawson said is true now.

 

[Catherineanne]

Is He not? And when did He tell you that?

Listen and you will hear him say it.

 

[AnneSally]

Only in Britain could this happen, and I think it is truly wonderful.

Right, only in the land of insipid PC'ism which doesn't stand for anything could that happen.

 

[AnneSally]

What's funny? You think it's amusing that an Islamic Mosque will be the face of Britain? Wow, I mustn't understand your humour.

 

[AnneSally]

Listen and you will hear him say it.

All I hear is you saying it.

 

[Anglian]

We have His assurance that the the Gates of Hell will not prevail against His Church. In Coptic Egypt the faithful are attacked, physically by misguided Muslims; I suspect the UK can survive a campaign of bus posters.

What it has not been so good at surviving is the slow, but sure, emptying out of the deposit of revealed Truth and its replacement by a secular ethical set of values which, whilst admirable in themselves (tolerance, fairness, equality) are, nontheless not a substitute for the Revealed Truth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that if we confess Him Lord and receive Him into our hearts, then life eternal can be ours.

Truth is a person, the person of the Risen Christ. Campaigns on buses are not half as deadly to the UK as the refusal in some Christian quarters to confess Christ, and Him Risen.

peace,

Anglian

 

[AnneSally]

Truth is a person, the person of the Risen Christ. Campaigns on buses are not half as deadly to the UK as the refusal in some Christian quarters to confess Christ, and Him Risen.

Right. And when a nation (a Christian one, no less) chooses an Islamic Mosque as its showpiece to screen out all across the globe, what is that "confessing"? Certainly not Christ, and not Him Risen.