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- doublefelix, on 01/17/2009, -126/+773And yet Christians have no problem whatsoever driving me ***** crazy over their continuous efforts at legislating morality.
- ryan83189, on 01/17/2009, -40/+531He has every right not to drive the bus, and his employer has every right to fire him. The people who put the poster up have every right to do so. That being said, cue the inevitable clash of evangelical atheists and evangelical christians arguing with each other like their ***** doesn't sink.
- gustsomejuy, on 01/17/2009, -100/+486Thank God I am an atheist.
- TotalHalibut, on 01/18/2009, -45/+328The blatant hypocrisy amongst some diggers here is palpable. It's a free country, with freedom of religious belief or non-belief. It's his right to express his views and deal with the consequences accordingly. He is not 'stupid' for doing it, he is a not 'hypocrite' for doing it, he does not 'hate the truth', as some of the earlier commentators above seem to believe. Considering how militant some of the atheists on Digg are, it's pretty laughable to see them complaining about a theist expressing his views.
You can't have it both ways. You deplore it every time a theist expresses their views, it hits front-page, inevitable childish mockery ensues and then get on your soapbox to express yours and expect it to be respected by default. It doesn't work that way. Do unto others boys, perhaps that old book has some sense in it after all. - WafflePirate, on 01/17/2009, -171/+429A Christian complaining about the truth? What's new.
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -94/+348if his uber-greatest god exists like he believes, then what does he care if someone gets it wrong? these people of such supposed great faith are the weakest of all.
- ShadowofAres, on 01/17/2009, -40/+293Would diggers drive a bus with a "Jeb Bush in 2012" ad on it?
- emailowndme, on 01/18/2009, -13/+234Sure, if it was my job.
I certainly wouldn't volunteer for it... - HotSaucePanCake, on 01/18/2009, -17/+216Good for the driver. Remember all this tolerance goes both ways :)
The point is the driver made a choice and that is only his choice to make. The consequences are also his. That is the great part about a free country. - Dragular, on 01/18/2009, -4/+175Right off a cliff.
- AttackGypsy, on 01/18/2009, -19/+182I don't know English labor laws.
But over here, you walk off like that because of something like that, you're fired. - emailowndme, on 01/18/2009, -15/+154Hitler was a Catholic. Also, the Catholic Church turned the other way when he slaughtered the jews...
Never mind that his whole idea of the Ayran race was as a God Chosen people to rule the world, etc and so forth. - BassMastr, on 01/18/2009, -30/+156Try doing that with Allah written on the side and see what happens.
- einrobstein, on 01/18/2009, -16/+137How can you assume what "any atheist" would do? I'm sure there have been many religious advertisements on buses and I've never seen a news story about an atheist driver refusing to drive one of them. You can't say "atheists are just as dumb as theists" when you only have an example of a dumb theist to work with.
- jurassiqpark, on 01/18/2009, -5/+118i see what you did there
- Zervaman, on 01/18/2009, -13/+126Galileo: Really guys, I think that the Earth goes around the Sun and not the other way around. I mean, look at the moons of Jupiter. Not everything revolves around the Ear-
Pope: STFU! House arrest *****!
Galileo: WTF?! - IKORKYI, on 01/18/2009, -1/+109he has the right to not drive that bus. he also has the right to be fired, just like an athiest who refuses to drive a bus with a religious method.
- lorem1000, on 01/17/2009, -15/+121Because you can't believe in God and support Obama?
There was zero reason to make a political jab in your post. I almost dugg it. - danillum, on 01/17/2009, -3/+86Are you defining atheist as: a disturbed totalitarian dictator?
- inactive, on 01/18/2009, -4/+85There's probably no bus driver!
- col381, on 01/18/2009, -14/+89A very good point - typical religious double standards. Atheists are not allowed to say there is no god because that is offensive, but we are supposed to just shut the ***** up whenever we get religion shoved down our throats - and of course we MUST respect it no matter what.
Hypocrites.
- inactive, on 01/18/2009, -38/+111Give him his papers and send him on his way. He's a driver not a protester. If you are not driving you are not working.
If he doesn't like a movie, fast food restaurant, or soft drink does he not drive either?
Let "god" pay him then. - fightingforair, on 01/18/2009, -7/+77You obviously don't understand what it means to be an atheist. There is no agenda nor objective to proclaim war. Hitler used Christian ideas and Jewish stereotypes/lies to drive his war machine. That makes his war a religious war, not an atheist one.
Try thinking about what you type before you actually type it. - col381, on 01/18/2009, -2/+70Now THAT is offensive.
- DouglasQ, on 01/18/2009, -15/+80You don't get atheists refusing to use American money cos it says 'In God We Trust'.
Grow up. - conna, on 01/18/2009, -10/+74Exactly why the State and Gov. must be separate. You don't want the state to endorse "gods laws".
- endyminion, on 01/18/2009, -4/+66He could sue for harassment and religious discrimination if he gets fired over here...
- Mujokan, on 01/18/2009, -1/+53How much of a drama queen would you have to be not to?
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -3/+54Only because the ad is made from the perspective of pure logic. It is, by definition, impossible to prove something doesn't exist, only that something does.
- jynweythek, on 01/18/2009, -19/+70ok. fine. why is this news?
- JAFFA, on 01/18/2009, -12/+62Hi - Im a UK athiest and i dont think im hypocritical when I say that he's well within his beliefs to refuse to drive the bus if he doesnt agree with the poster.
However - 2 points. The first is that it shows how inflexible some religious people are to anothers point of view and beliefs. I cant think of any athiest friends that would refuse to do their job due to advertising they didnt agree with.
Secondly - I think its quite appalling that someone can refusee to do the job they are paid for AND keep their job just because something touches on their beliefs. I work in media and publishing so I publish some utter dross from all kinds of perspectives; right, left, christian, muslim, jewish, buddhist etc ... And if I refused to do my job because i found it offensive to my athiest beliefs then i WOULD almost certainly be fired. - GTPilot, on 01/18/2009, -9/+59I doubt an atheist would do the same thing. A Christian advertisement to an atheist is nothing like 'god doesn't exist' advertisement to a christian. I think you're getting your 10 commandments reference confused with how atheists may take offense when it is coming from their government, ... not paid advertised space on the side of a bus.
Also, there's probably no hell, so stop worrying and enjoy life. - Hetman, on 01/18/2009, -9/+56Saying there is no God is the same as saying there is no Allah. It really goes against all religions that believe in a God. Saying there is no muhhammod or he was not a profit would single out islam. Just like saying Jesus was not God incarnate, would target christianity.
- d0ugfunny, on 01/18/2009, -3/+50I'm a proud Christian and I agree with you 100% I will admit that there are problems, but I hope people realize that not all Christians feel the need to push our beliefs on others. I was taught tolerance, and compassion for all of humanity. He has the right to get fired for his belief.
If your not willing to make sacrifices for what you believe in then what should you make sacrifices for? - Zervaman, on 01/18/2009, -0/+46No, Harriot is credited with creating the first drawings of the moon from a telescope.
Galileo, on the other hand, was a supporter of the Copernican notion of heliocentrism after observing several satellites orbiting Jupiter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harriot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei - conna, on 01/18/2009, -6/+51Over what? a sticker. WTF. Is it the Dark Ages?
- ltkerr0r, on 01/18/2009, -3/+48Only if it ran on bacon
- LilJimmyNordin, on 01/18/2009, -13/+57That comment just exposes you for how little you really know about atheists. Typical ignorance.
- paulvq, on 01/18/2009, -1/+45http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evangeli ...
I'm pretty sure he meant it as definition #5 - TotalHalibut, on 01/18/2009, -4/+48I gave you 3 quotes just there from some of the first few comments, and there are plenty of 'Fire his ass!' comments too. I mean if you can't see those then well, I dunno what to tell ya, because they're right there.
- JoeBaynham, on 01/18/2009, -11/+53I'm sure they can find his replacement pretty quick.
- DrewPeacock, on 01/18/2009, -7/+48Someone exercised their right to do whatever the ***** they want and then deal with the repercussions on their own! Newsy!
- Zervaman, on 01/18/2009, -3/+43WWJKITB?
- buckrogers1965, on 01/18/2009, -5/+44The Nazi party had an official state religion... Christianity.
- z4ck4ll3n, on 01/18/2009, -15/+54As a Christians, it is folks like these that I have the hardest time with. Jesus hung out with tax collectors and prostitutes. I bet He would have loved to have driven that bus.
- Mujokan, on 01/18/2009, -3/+40Seems like you might have the uniform ready to go.
- fragsta, on 01/18/2009, -1/+38It doesn't make a difference, nobody will ever elect a man named "Jeb"
- PrintScrn12, on 01/18/2009, -6/+42Religion matters because it has an influence on society.
- tk0680, on 01/18/2009, -2/+37If I were a bus driver, of course. My job would be to drive buses, not vet the adverts on those buses.
Also, since when does driving a bus imply your endorsement of an advert on the side of it? - DrunkenPirate34, on 01/18/2009, -2/+37I'm an Athiest but I wouldn't give a *****.
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