Britain's Atheist Bus Campaign beats funding target
London - Britain's first atheist advertising campaign has beaten its fundraising target in its first day, media reports said Wednesday. The campaign, which was launched by the Guardian newspaper and supported by the British Humanist Association and atheist campaigner Professor Richard Dawkins, had received pledges worth more than 28,000 pounds (46,000 dollars) by Tuesday, five times the 5,500-pound target, the Guardian and Daily Telegraph dailies reported.
The money is to be used to advertise on buses in response to a similar campaign by fundamentalist Christians in June that featured a website which said all non-Christians would burn in Hell for eternity, according to the British Humanist Association's website.
Writer Ariane Sherine suggested in a column in the Guardian in June that people pledge cash to run a counter-campaign to the Christian one, which she dubbed the Atheist Bus Campaign....
Dr. Jason Lisle | 6/1/2005
