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Posted on: Tuesday, October 21st, 2008



Atheist Bus Campaign

Wow – this page is going completely bananas on Justgiving today.

It’s a campaign to raise money for the first ever atheist bus campaign.

You might have read about it on the BBC website, the Guardian website or even The Register.

Now, Justgiving is impartial when it comes to beliefs – all of us working here have our own beliefs and feel strongly that everyone else is entitled to theirs. We’ve got all sorts of different charities raising money through our website.

But this page is remarkable for the sheer speed that it’s raising money – we’ve been noticing that there are new donations every time we refresh the page. Whatever you believe, it certainly shows the power of online fundraising. The campaign has not only smashed its target for the British Humanist Association but it’s gone from trebling the target to quadrupling it in the time spent writing this blog post…

Amazing.

Here’s how those donations look on a graph (we like graphs here), and it shows just how hundreds of donations have come through the page in a very short space of time, starting at midnight last night:

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  • jlsal5

    What’s all this huffing and puffing about? What are you afraid of? Is it that there probably is a God and you wish you could stop worrying about it and enjoy yourselves as Christians and people with other religious beliefs do?

  • 4th3157

    Some more things for christdied4u to think about.

    1. Human chromosome number 2 is direct genetic evidence that we share a common genetic ancestor with chimpanzees. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, chimps have 1 more pair. One the face of it this makes it look like they don’t share a common ancestor, however, evolution make a very important and accurate prediction: if we share a common ancestor then somewhere in history a chromosome must have fused with another one. That’s exactly what we find. This cannot be explained by intelligent design because chromosomes have special markers at the ends and in the centre and this contradicts intelligent design.

    http://godbegone.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-chimp-chromosome-2-proves-evolution.html

    2. Read Deuteronomy 22:28-29 and tell me why I should believe that the bible is the divine word of god when is dictates that rape victims must be forced to marry their rapists.

  • christdied4u

    This is becoming a futile conversation and I will at least agree to disagree. I for one have not been arguing. But if I have offended or upset any of you then please forgive me.

    I leave you with this:

    For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

    John 3:16

  • 4th3157

    Sorry to see that you’ve admitted defeat, christdied4u, but I guess that was inevitable given the glaring facts mounted against you.

    “If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.” Deuteronomy 22:28-29

    “But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.” Luke 6:27-30

    I hope that you, christdied4u, truly believe this passage because I now ask you to give me all your money and high-value assets and continue to give them to me as you acquire them throughout the rest of your life.

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  • Jemima Jenkins

    It’s wonderful: all that money and rather than donate to some lovely humanitarian cause, we burn it on a campaign to blow raspberries at the theists. Damn, we’re humane. (*Waves at Gaza: sorry, chaps …*)

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