Richard Dawkins launches bus ad: "There's probably no God"

There probably is no God. We do know for sure, as Dawkins pointed out in the God Delusion, that the Christian God definitely does NOT exist. The Christian God has too much absurd baggage to believe in: Demons, devils, angels, Satan, talking animals, Jesus, seraphs, unicorns, a flat immovable earth... the list of biblical absurdities and impossibilities is almost endless. No person of reason and intelligence could believe in the Christian God. That would be impossible. If some other kind of God exists no one knows but science has pretty much eliminated any God from the picture.

What's with the Atheists' obsession with God lately? I've never seen so many people talk so much about something that doesn't exist. I'm pretty sure that unicorns don't exist, but I'm not going to put it on a bus and then pat myself on the back whispering, "SNAP! - If only everyone were this brilliant".

To Boris - yes, indeed you've cracked the big secret. The Bible was written by human beings within a historical context and may (gasp!) contain literary metaphors to explain the human experience of that time. I too was shocked when I learned that the earth in fact wasn't created in six days and that the sun does not revolve around the earth. Oh and did you know that God doesn't have a grey beard, walk with a cane in a flowing white robe on the clouds? My world was shaken to its core when I found this out.

To Greg - I not only purchased the shirt, I also got the little stuffed animal dog with the darwin fish symbol hangin around it's neck that sings, "who let the God out" when you squeeze it. Keep buying those shirts brutha! More billboards coming to a mainstream near you.

So Atheists, here is a message from an agnostic: "A billboard on a bus is probably not going to change anything, so try to enjoy your life".

"I think it's great that the atheists spend so much of their time, money and effort trying to refute God, it really demonstrates the importance of God is our lives."

No, it demonstrates the importance of the millions of people in the world basing their lives and decisions on the existence of an imaginary being. Self-centered about your beliefs, much?

An atheist is someone who doesn't believe in a god or gods - Zeus, Odin, Baal, or any of the rest. There is nothing dogmatic about not believing something there is no evidence for. Are you dogmatic about your lack of belief in unicorns?

Some people would prefer that atheists did not exist, and if there were any, that they pretended not to exist. This may be a hangover from the days when atheism was punishable by death.

I suspect from you comments that you are unaware of how pervasive religion is in our society. Teaching of evolution is considered by some to promoting a godless society, and therefore evil. Beware getting your science learning from a church - think Galileo.

So why are the atheists even bothering with the bus campaign?
Buses routinely carry religious messages - which are a bit "in your face" to non-believers (who wants to be told in large letters that they are going to hell?).
Atheists are now pushing back - actually daring to claim the right to exist. Some people find this offensive. Now *that* is offensive.

Dawkins rocks! I am so sick of stupid christians and their mumbo jumbo. why should we tiptoe around their fairy tales! I wish the bus where in SA, i would donate tomorrow!

I would have not said probably - THERE IS NO GOD - SO GET OVER IT!
That would have been my preferred wording.

So sick of them taking advantage of our educated tolerance!

Amongst all the anger and hurtful comments, I just want to add that I have been an atheist for 32 years and I understand a lot of what you say about how Christians treat you and how you feel like second-class citizens. I understand how it's hard and even ridiculous to believe in something that you can't see or feel. But 8 years ago, God did become real to me and in an instant I went from unbelief to belief because, simply put, I met Him. Two years after that I was called into ministry. When you experience Him, and I really hope you do, you'll know that He is complete love. Just think that maybe there is something behind the diversity of life and the beauty of creation. There is something bigger than ourselves and you are loved and valued even if you don't believe in Him right now. It's too bad we get so angry about faith because I guess it's because we just want to know more about ourselves and our beliefs are important to us. We all have every right to our beliefs - whether we are an atheist, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Hindu and so on. I believe in God not because someone else convinced me or society forced Him on me. I believe because He has proven Himself to me, over and over. He's real. That's all I tell you.

Keep in mind you cannot assume religion is down to stupidity. Martin Luther King, Gandhi - they changed the world more than any of us have, more than Richard Dawkins has physically improved the world. Do not get me wrong, I am a Christian and admire Dawkins. Religion has done a lot of good, harm too but still a lot of good.
Gorbachev himself said that the fall of communism would not have happened if it weren't for the inspiration and leadership from Pope John Paul II of the Roman Catholic church.
Religion has done harm and good, but that can be said for any kind of organisation - governments included. USA in Vietnam, Japan in WW2, the Nazi's full stop, Britain in the colonial era... To list a few.