Atheists in NZ recieve abusive emails over sticker campaign

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Atheists in NZ recieve abusive emails over sticker campaign

Post by redunderthebed » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:46 am

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009 ... 769040.htm

Atheists draw wrath over sticker stunt

By New Zealand correspondent Kerri Ritchie

Posted 1 hour 23 minutes ago

Passionate atheists in New Zealand are copping abuse for their plan to put giant stickers on the sides of buses advising people to stop worrying because there is probably no God.

The atheists want public donations so they can put the stickers on the side of buses in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

The stickers read: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

When similar stickers were put on London's trains and buses earlier this year, many religious groups were far from happy.

New Zealand spokesman for the atheist bus campaign, Simon Fisher, told Radio New Zealand that he has received a number of abusive emails.

"Quite nasty ones, along the lines of, 'You're going to hell'," he said.

But Mr Fisher says he is not worried.

"For one, I don't believe in hell, so it's not too bad."

He hopes the stickers spark lots of fiery debate and wants them in place by February.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:58 am

And they'll probably want to take away our birthdays, too. :cry:
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Re: Atheists in NZ recieve abusive emails over sticker campaign

Post by charlou » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:37 am

"He hopes the stickers spark lots of fiery debate"


Ahehehe ... :mrgreen:
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Post by AshtonBlack » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:37 am

Bella Fortuna wrote:And they'll probably want to take away our birthdays, too. :cry:
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Post by Animavore » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:39 am

This thread should be stickied... to a bus.
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Post by lofuji » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:17 am

I'm not at all surprised by this story. There are rather a lot of quasi-independent fundamentalist churches in NZ, which is one of the reasons I decided not to move there when I had the opportunity five years ago. There was one in north Auckland that opened a school while I was there: the usual shite, making the girls wear Mother Hubbard dresses and saying that they wouldn't be teaching the theory of evolution. Someone needs to stick it up 'em, but I decided that I prefer Hong Kong, where hardly anyone takes religion seriously [unless you regard the worship of money as a religion].

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Re: Atheists in NZ recieve abusive emails over sticker campaign

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:28 am

lofuji wrote:I'm not at all surprised by this story. There are rather a lot of quasi-independent fundamentalist churches in NZ, which is one of the reasons I decided not to move there when I had the opportunity five years ago. There was one in north Auckland that opened a school while I was there: the usual shite, making the girls wear Mother Hubbard dresses and saying that they wouldn't be teaching the theory of evolution. Someone needs to stick it up 'em, but I decided that I prefer Hong Kong, where hardly anyone takes religion seriously [unless you regard the worship of money as a religion].

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