suchandra Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Prabhupada: No, atheist, that is there should be reasonable proposal. If you speak something nonsense, that “I exist,” why he, does he bring the word God, if God does not exist? God is there, but He denies the existence. That is atheism. Otherwise, why bringing the word God? If God does not exist, why he is bringing the word God? Philosophy Discussions with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Jean-Paul Sartre Atheist buses denying God’s existence take to streets Martin Beckford – Telegraph.co.uk January 7, 2009 Organisers originally hoped to put the message on just a handful of London buses, as an antidote to posters put up by religious groups which they claimed were “threatening eternal damnation” to non-believers. But after the campaign received high-profile support from the prominent atheist Prof Richard Dawkins and the British Humanist Association, the modest £5,500 target was met within minutes and more than £140,000 has now been donated since the launch in October. Enough money has now been raised to place the message – “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life” – on 200 bendy buses in the capital for a month, with the first ones taking to the streets . A further 600 buses carrying the adverts will be seen by passengers and passers-by in cities across England, Wales and Scotland, from Aberdeen and Dundee to York, Coventry, Swansea and Bristol. In addition, two large LCD screens bearing the atheist message have been placed in Oxford Street, central London, while 1,000 posters containing quotes from well-known non-believers will be placed on Underground trains for two weeks starting on Monday. They feature lines doubting the existence of God, and celebrating the natural world, written by Albert Einstein, Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Adams and Emily Dickinson. It is the first ever atheist advertising campaign to take place in Britain, and similar adverts are now also running on public transport in America and Spain. Ariane Sherine, a writer who first thought of the atheist bus adverts, said: “You wait ages for an atheist bus, then 800 come along at once. I hope they will brighten people’s days and make them smile on their way to work.” The campaign has even been welcomed by religious groups for increasing the profile of debate about faith, and although there was tight security outside the launch event by the Royal Albert Hall, the campaigners have not received any threats from fundamentalists. Paul Woolley, director of Theos, a theology think tank which donated £50 to the cause, said: “The posters will encourage people to consider the most important question we will ever face in our lives.” Some atheist supporters of the campaign were disappointed that the wording of the adverts did not declare categorically that God does not exist, although there were fears that this could break advertising guidelines. Prof Dawkins, the renowned evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion, said: “I wanted something stronger but with hindsight I think it’s probably a good thing because it makes people think. It’s just food for thought – people will have conversations in pubs when they see these buses.” Hanne Stinson, chief executive of the British Humanist Association, said the adverts were “overwhelmingly positive” and were intended to reassure agnostics and atheists that there is nothing wrong with not believing in God. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4141765/Atheist-buses-denying-Gods-existence-take-to-streets.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientMariner Posted January 8, 2009 Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 These boneheads are just going to get more and more disturbed emotionally as time goes on cause God is real. I had a therapist once who I was trying to explain to him how God is the supersoul within all living beings and he thought I was crazy and told me there is no God and I told him yes there is. Later on that therapist ended up screwing one of his patients and lost his job and ended up suicidal. You gotta be careful to never deny God as it will come back on you in a bad way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehat Posted January 8, 2009 Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 LOL! Richard DORKins. Such fools. “The posters will encourage people to consider the most important question we will ever face in our lives.” - I wonder what is that most important question atheists will face in their lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haridasdasdas Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 LOL! Richard DORKins. Such fools. “The posters will encourage people to consider the most important question we will ever face in our lives.” - I wonder what is that most important question atheists will face in their lives. Scrunch or fold? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sephiroth Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 They deny God cos they are afraid to face their own mistakes and be answerable toward it. If there is no God, then they could die and disappear. Whatever sins and mistakes they have made, it will not come back to haunt them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amlesh Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 They deny God because of their taste for material enjoyment. The more deeply they are attached.. the more deeper is the ditch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sephiroth Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 They deny God because of their taste for material enjoyment.The more deeply they are attached.. the more deeper is the ditch. There's more to that than simple "escape from materialistic life" aspect in Spiritualism. I myself are a scholar (of my own rights) of Evolution of Mankind. I believe that there are three paths to Evolution (to a higher being). Believe it or not, it was Hindusm which teached me the most about Evolution and not Science alone. Studying the Nine Avatars of Maha Vishnu from an Evolutional point of view have been an incredible experience for me and offers a lot of answers which Science alone have not provided. The three paths of Evolutions are : Path of Animalistic Qualities, Path of Mental Qualities and Path of Spiritual Qualities. Our earlier ancestors (some 5 million years ago) were animalistic in qualities. Many of the human cousins were killed off by nature disasters, famine, sickness or wild animals till they have been forced to develop Mental Qualities. Creation of fire, settlement, weaponry and agriculture (some 10,000 years ago) have enabled humans to settle down and populate the Planet as we have today. I believe that without this Mental Evolutions from primitive nature to a higher nature (as we are today), we could not have come so far ahead, breaking ourselves away from Animal world completely. So, I believe that the next stage in Human Evolution can ONLY BE ACHIEVED through Spiritual Path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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