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Quote by: Jack  That was tried and the billboard company moved it due to their own religious beliefs. You can read about it here. |
The launch of this campaign featured across our various news channels here in the UK yesterday, as a sort of joke item, as you'd expect... the rather bemused public response struck me as typically British, in that nobody took it seriously. Comments varied from "makes a nice change" to "I've seen a lot worse" to "If it pi***s off the self-righteous - bring it on!"
The reporters failed to find anybody suffering even mild outrage - which, I suspect, would not be the case in the far more religious America. Dawkin's own comment - "I would have been happier if the slogan said there is
DEFINITELY no god, any more than there is a tooth fairy" - was also typically tongue-in-cheek...
I would hate to live in any country that still takes superstition of any sort seriously, which is why I have no plans to move away from Britain for the time being.