Posts tagged Activism

Auckland Church Fights Back… Kinda

My mate Spankermatic over at Reality Dysfunction writes about a retaliation ad campaign launched in the wake of the NZ Atheist Bus initiative.  The words “desperation” and “hypocrisy” spring swiftly to mind, as they so often do with modern religion.

A minister of the church was quoted as saying: “See?  We can be hip, cool, funny and sexy too!”.  OK, that’s not a real quote, but you just know they’re thinking it.

NZ Atheist Bus Donation Commitment

Since the Atheist Bus project was announced on Stuff this morning the comments section on the project’s latest blog post started going pretty wild.  The religious crazies were out in full force, with their irrational cannons fully loaded and firing away.  To counter this I’ve committed to donating an additional $1 per uneducated, irrational religious comment posted, and have been joined by at least one other fellow Atheist.

Every morning until the project reaches its (revised) goal of $20,000 I will post the total of the previous day’s religiously-inspired donation amount after I’ve made the donation.

Hopefully it doesn’t get too out of hand, my poor wallet is already cringing at the thought!