Well, at least they aren't calling it 'propaganda' anymore.

Update on the atheist buses campaign. Yep, it's been banned.

I was going to type out the whole article from the newspaper until I discovered the entire thing had been plagiarised from The Telegraph, without credit given. So here's the link.

Okay, I still wonder why these are "offensive and broach standards on taste and decency". They even had to put in the word 'probably' to pass guidelines! Why is it that flat-out proselytising is allowed, but the mere suggestion of secularism is enough to be considered a hate crime?

He said: "If you're going to put out what appears to be a factual statement then you have to be able to back it up. They've got to substantiate this proposition that in all probability, God doesn't exist."

There is plenty of goddamn proof to explain things that religion did before. There's no need to PROVE the existence of something that there's no evidence for the existence of. Stupid religious nuts are always going to argue for existence even though it can never be proven, and never be completely disproven. I thought Britain was pretty fine with atheism, but it appears not.

Members of the public donated £140,000 to the Atheist Bus Campaign after its founder, the writer Ariane Sherine, suggested there should be an antidote to religious posters on public transport that "threaten eternal damnation" to non-believers.

Some supporters of the movement, which has now paid for 800 bendy-buses across Britain to carry the posters for a month as well as placing 1,000 adverts on Tube trains, had wanted a stronger slogan that denied God's existence categorically. But the word "probably" was included in order to meet ASA rules.

See, these people supported it, but now they're trying to ban it because a few people complained.
Apparently hundreds of religious groups complained in the US, which is sorta understandable. We're never going to get equal rights, ever.


Related link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/4159715/Atheist-bus-Sleep-in-on-Sunday-morning-adverts-banned.html