Losing My Religion

 

Ariane Sherine gives us a thought for the day!

This is the face of the young lady who has launched a thousand atheist buses. She is Ariane Sherine, the TV comedy writer who came up with the atheist bus campaign. From the photograph I can only see her swelling the  ranks of many an atheist as a more acceptable face of youthful atheism. She is also presenting the first ever non-religious ‘thought for the day’ on tomorrow’s Radio 4. For those of you not familiar with this British institution, every morning on BBC Radio we hear some pearls of wisdom from a religious person. Up till now, they have never had an atheist, an agnostic or even a humanist. So you go girl!! I, for one, will be tuning in.

The Atheist Bus Gathers Up Steam

Apparently there have been 50 complaints about the atheist buses that are currently touring the country and about to set off in Spain. They want the advertising standards authority to remove them. I have just done a quick head count of positive and negative 70 comments just posted within hours on the article website and all but one come from enthusiastic atheists.  I can only imagine that the name calling will continue as this bus looks like it is going to run and run.