Humanism

Christians Post Faith Messages On London Buses

February 6, 2009

Author: Meera Selva

Source: The Houston Chronicle

Wire Service: AP

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Christians are soldiering on in the battle over God's existence by putting ads on London's famous red buses urging people to have faith.

The posters are a response to an atheist campaign that told people to stop worrying about religion because God probably doesn't exist.

The Christian Party has paid 15,000 pounds ($22,000) to...

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Humanism to Be Taught as a Religion In Victorian Schools

February 4, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Christian Today Australia

http://au.christiantoday.com/article/humanism-to-be-taught-as-a-religion-in-victorian-schools/5307.htm

Victorian primary school students will soon have religious education lessons taught by people who do not believe in God and say there is "no evidence of any supernatural power". The Humanist Society has developed a curriculum, which the State...

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Do Obama's Nods to Non-Believers Signal Turning Tide for U.S. Atheists?

February 2, 2009

Author: Lee-Anne Goodman

Source: The Canadian Press

http://www.570news.com/news/international/article.jsp?content=w0202123A

On a bustling day in a downtown D.C. neighbourhood, a street vendor named Samuel is doing a brisk business selling President Barack Obama T-shirts.

He's talking incessantly about Jesus as he makes his sales, until one customer politely tells him she doesn't believe in God.

Emblazoned with...

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Faith On the Side Of a Bus

January 31, 2009

Author: Jason Buckland

Source: CNEWS

[cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/01/31/8215376-sun.html]

A provocative and highly controversial religious ad set to debut today is being welcomed by church groups who say it encourages open discussion about the validity of God.

In response to a popular British billboard that will appear soon on the TTC, the United Church of Canada has launched the ad in today's Globe and Mail.

The original ad, featured on buses in the U.K., declared: "There's...

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Thousands Attend Boulder Debate On Atheism And Religion

January 28, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Catholic News Agency

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Writers Dinesh D’Souza and Christopher Hitchens brought their polemics on religion and atheism to a debate Monday evening at the University of Colorado at Boulder before a sold-out crowd of 2,050 in the campus’ Macky Auditorium.

D’Souza, a Catholic and author of the book “What’s So Great about Christianity,” argued that Christianity is the foundation for many common values such as scientific inquiry and...

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Council to Keep Meeting Prayers

January 26, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7852446.stm

A Devon council has voted to continue saying prayers at the start of one of its monthly meetings following a debate over whether to scrap the tradition.

The vote was taken by Dartmouth Town Council after Councillor Brian Boughton, who is an atheist, wore his iPod earphones during prayers.

He denies playing his iPod at the time but says the...

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Advertising Panel Approves British `No God' Bus Ads

January 22, 2009

Author: Al Webb

Source: Religion News Service

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=17392

Rejecting protests by Christian groups, Britain's advertising watchdog agency has given the go-ahead to a campaign to plaster atheist signs on hundreds of buses and other vehicles across the country.

The Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the campaign, which uses the slogan "There's probably no God," was unlikely to mislead or "cause...

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Atheist Humanist Ads Use Obama to Promote Secularism

January 19, 2009

Author: Trina Hoaks

Source: Examiner.com

http://www.examiner.com/x-2044-Atheism-Examiner~y2009m1d19-Atheist-humanist-ads-use-Obama-to-promote-secularism

In a press release from the American Humanist Association, it was said that Obama will be displayed prominently in ads promoting secularism, or as some have said, as an “atheist role-model.” Following is part of the ad, followed...

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Obama's Religion-Studded Inauguration Joins a Long History

January 19, 2009

Author: Duke Helfand

Source: The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-beliefs19-2009jan19,0,5650037.story

Like so many presidents before him, Barack Obama has invited a revered guest to his inauguration: God.

Although the Constitution forbids the government from establishing religion, faith is once again figuring prominently into the nation's grandest political pageant, just as it...

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Atheists Hope (Don't Pray) to Bring Ads to Toronto

January 16, 2009

Author: Jeff Gray

Source: The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090116.ATHEIST16//TPStory/Front

The atheist slogan, "There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life," may soon be coming to subways and buses in Canada's largest city.

The Toronto-based Freethought Association of Canada, inspired by a campaign that has plastered British buses with the phrase, has...

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Judge Rejects Atheist Challenge to Inaugural Prayer

January 15, 2009

Author: Adelle M. Banks

Source: Religion News Service

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=17343

A U.S. District judge on Thursday (Jan. 15) denied a California atheist's request to halt references to God at President-elect Obama's swearing-in on Jan. 20.

"I think it's highly questionable that I have such authority," said Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after a two-hour hearing Thursday...

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Atheist's Protest Ends Recitation Of Lord's Prayer In N.J.

January 15, 2009

Author: Joe Moszczynski

Source: Religion News Service

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=17345

For nearly 60 years, the town council here started its meetings by reciting the Lord's Prayer. Council members felt the passage gave them guidance and inspiration.

That tradition ended recently after the council's attorney advised members they should heed a request by a resident, an avowed atheist, to stop the practice.

Doug...

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DUP Man Urges Religious Fightback Against 'No God' Campaign

January 15, 2009

Author: Sam Lister

Source: Belfast Telegraph

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/dup-man-urges-religious-fightback-against-no-god-campaign-14140238.html

Christian groups have been urged by a senior DUP politician to launch a counter-strike to the “There is Probably No God” bus advertising campaign.

Gregory Campbell wants alternative...

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Atheist Bus Poster Campaign Moves to Genoa

January 14, 2009

Author: Richard Owen

Source: The Times Online

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5510761.ece

The British-inspired atheist bus poster campaign today (Tuesday) moved closer to the Vatican after the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (UAAR) said slogans proclaiming that God does not exist would appear from next month (February) on buses in Genoa.

Father Gianfranco Celabrese, a spokesman for...

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Atheists Send a Message, On 800 British Buses

January 6, 2009

Author: Sarah Lyall

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/europe/07london.html?ref=europe

The advertisement on the bus was fairly mild, just a passage from the Bible and the address of a Christian Web site. But when Ariane Sherine, a comedy writer, looked on the Web site in June, she was startled to learn that she and her nonbelieving friends were headed straight to hell, to “spend all eternity in...

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