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Christian bus driver won't drive bus with atheist adverts
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by mudricky | January 17, 2009 at 02:41 am
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An 'anti-god' advertising campaign ran by the British Humanist Association (BHS) on buses in the UK has angered a bus driver from England.
Christian Ron Heather, from Southampton walked out during his shift on Saturday night when he found his bus had the slogan "There's probably no God" on the side.
The BHS is a UK national charity who say they support and represent people "who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs".
On their website they say their vision is of a world without religious privilege or discrimination, where people are free to live good lives on the basis of reason, experience and shared human values.
The company who owns the buses Ron drives, First Buses, said he wouldn't need to drive one of the buses with the advert on the side.
The advertisements are currently running on 800 buses all over the UK in Scotland, England and Wales and has caused anger from Christian groups all over the UK.
A Christian bus driver has refused to drive a bus with an atheist slogan proclaiming "There's probably no God".
Ron Heather, from Southampton, Hampshire, responded with "shock" and "horror" at the message and walked out of his shift on Saturday in protest.
First Bus said it would do everything in its power to ensure Mr Heather does not have to drive the buses.
Buses across Britain started displaying atheist messages in an advertising campaign launched earlier this month.
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at 03:57 on January 17th, 2009
Funny stuff, man, and good continued coverage.
at 08:06 on January 17th, 2009
May be surprising for many but not so because he did whatever his conscience asked him to do and the step shows he is an upright and bold person, who said yes on call of conscience.
at 09:52 on January 17th, 2009
I sort of agree. He believes in God and the Bible. Atheism is also a form of religion. They have faith there is no God.
at 08:08 on January 17th, 2009
This is interesting and has two sides. Would a black person drive a bus with anti-black ads?
""First Bus said it would do everything in its power to ensure Mr Heather does not have to drive the buses.""This may be the best solution.
at 08:20 on January 17th, 2009
Although I think I understand your intent by raising the issue, as a parellel, historically, Black people did work and were compelled to work in segregated places, places where they couldn't be patrons, places that displayed ugly signs of exclusion, often in derogatory terms, even suffering verbal abuse on the job. They continued to work because of the need for employment.
Obviously, at this point in time, that type of display against Black people would not be tolerated by most. Maybe, there may be a new 'Religious Tolerance' movement afoot, to counter attacks upon persons of faith, beginning with this driver.
at 09:30 on January 17th, 2009
could a vegan for example refuse to drive a bus carrying advertising for a burger chain?
at 08:28 on January 17th, 2009
Excellent article Ricky, what a world we live in.
at 09:48 on January 17th, 2009
Muslim cab drivers in New York already won't pick up people with dogs because of the statements about dogs by Mohammed in the Qu'ran. People carrying bottles of alcohol are a problem for them, too.
The bus driver will get over it.
at 09:53 on January 17th, 2009
lol
at 15:52 on January 17th, 2009
I find any pro Christian ads offensive - does this mean i can have them all taken down?
at 15:59 on January 17th, 2009
I think an advert is just an advert at the end of the day - I'm not sure how much it means.
at 09:51 on January 18th, 2009
great Ad.I will add to it it is not probable but the fact that their is no god.
at 16:44 on January 18th, 2009
"I will add to it that the fact is that their (sic) is no god".
A fact is something verifiable, a given, about which there can be no doubt other than the error of measurement or something similar.
Whether god exists or not would not be a fact, but an interpretation based on meaningful data given a method of ascertaining how the statements God exists or God does not exist could be falsified or verified.
Yes, we can verify or falsify countless stories in the Holy Books of the world, whether they be Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist or otherwise.
But no such method of approaching this question of the existence of Higher Power exists outside of what we would have to call inner data of our own psyche's empirical experience.
I would like to point out that some questions of science itself remain unanswered, and I don't refer here to Global Warming, but rather to simple ones such as: does saccharin cause cancer or not?
To date, I may be wrong, no evidence exists to solidly underscore the interpretation that saccharin causes cancer nor does such data exist for the hypothesis that saccharin does not cause cancer.
So, that is why the existence of God is about faith and your own take on life.
at 01:40 on January 21st, 2009
Explain then the scientific miracles of the Quran if there is no God
at 18:36 on February 4th, 2009
if there were miracles... why did they stop a thousand years ago?
at 02:01 on January 21st, 2009
i agree with those who say its a laugh really, how people get embroiled in such debates, but these same things lead to big wars, remember? we are always looking for trouble, arent we!