ALL ABOARD the Atheist Bus.

[HonaloochieB]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Fear not, Hugenot, lions will be lying down with

> lambs in Heaven.

But the lambs won't get much sleep.

A shiny sixpence and a kiss on the nose for the first forumite to give me the origin of that.

It's OK, SM just brought Black Francis into the debate, so things are opening out.

[PeckhamRose]

The latest.And we did laugh.

[SeanMacGabhann]

To be fair to the Christians I know, not many would say SG speaks for them at all. No more than Blair spoke for those of us on the left.

So, hilarious as that guy's remarks are I wouldn't use them in any kind of counter-argument

[mockney piers]

"If we believe in Darwin"

I think the 'in' needs dropping there. I'm pretty certain he existed. ;-)

[Moos]

I'm not an atheist, but I'm all for this campaign - anything that gets people talking about important topics like 'What's It All About Then Eh When It Really Comes Down To It, Hmm'. Brilliant. Better than the usual 'buy this new phone' tosh on the sides of buses.

Was a bit surprised by the content though. I really admire the humanist movement on the grounds that I thought it was intended to provide a moral and ethical structure and stance that's unconnected to faith, a responsibility for one another based on mutual value. But 'Now stop worrying and enjoy your life' sounded more like a slogan for the Hedonist movement. Perhaps they felt 'Now stop worrying and be a good person just for its own sake with no reward' might not sound much fun.

[KalamityKel]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> "If we believe in Darwin"

>

> I think the 'in' needs dropping there. I'm pretty

> certain he existed. ;-)

Like Santa Clause?

[mockney piers]

Errm, you may want to sit down for a moment Kel...would you like a lollipop?

[Moos]

Offering little girls lollipops, Mockers? That sort of thing can get a nice young man into trouble these days.

[????]

I dunno, you spend all that time waiting for a bus and then a Holy Trinity appear at once...

[KalamityKel]

and even more trouble if they aint so little eh moos? ;-)

[Moos]

M. le Quids - yes, but they're 3 buses in 1, don't forget.

KK I will not be drawn into comments as to your size.

[KalamityKel]

Haha Moos stop it ur simply just too much for me this morning/afternoon!

[mockney piers]

Geeez. A man can't even offer a girl a lollipop just before shattering her illusions these days.

Darn Daily Mail has a lot to answer for frankly.

Missus Mocker's niece is 11 and still believes in Santy(sic). I had to bite my tongue on more than one occasion I must say, I mean 11?!?!?.

I guess we didn't help last year when we got our photo taken with him in Lapland* and got him to send her a letter.

*he's 7ft tall you know!!

[KalamityKel]

but if u SAW him surely he exists? ::o

[Moos]

Cor, you're a meany under all that nice-nice, aren't you? I can just tell you were dying to accidentally let it slip and watch that little face crumple.

You better watch out, Mr. M.Piers, and I'm telling you why. Santa Claus is coming to town (in about 11 and a half months) and he's going to GETCHA.

[KalamityKel]

I'll let u in to a little secret... he's also popping back in the warmer months for a brief pitstop to collect one of his shiny buckles I found by my skylite the other week...

[mockney piers]

What on earth is all this "nice-nice" nonsense?

In all fairness everyone in her family is trying to persuade her mum to break the news. SHe goes to a village school with about 20 sweet but naive village types and next school year she'll be in the local secondary school with 500 odd towny roustabouts, and they'll tease her to death if they catch a whiff of it.

[Moos]

Still not a job for Uncle 'Don't call me nice' Piers, impertinent though it is to offer that opinion. What can I say? I always thought you were the star-bright friend of kittens and butterflies, a sweet, sensitive guy who could skip through the bluebells without leaving so much as a bent stalk. Now I realise I was foolish and naive, and you're just the kind of chap who'd spend all afternoon helping his small grandson pluck up the courage to whip out that first wobbly tooth before announcing that the Tooth Fairy is made up. The scales have fallen from my eyes and I am a sadder but wiser Moos.

On other topics- KK, are you really Santa's Baby? Did he slip a sable under the tree for thee? I think TedMax should be told. That's headline-grabbing stuff.

[KalamityKel]

:-$

[mockney piers]

I'm sorry to shatter your illusions, but I've even been known to do the odd number two* now and then...shhhhh

*though of course it smells of bluebells

[Keef]

RE: An 11 year old believing in Santa, as far as I am concerned, that is bordering on cruelty by her parents! What you say about her going to secondary school is spot on.

[Jah Lush]

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. -- Steven Wright

[Mark]

Horray! Radio 4's Thought for the Day is having a non-religious speaker tomorrow, ok it's a Saturday but it's a start. I've complained to R4 before about the crap that's sprouted in the morning by the religious speakers so I'm happy that they have allowed this. To those who don't know, the Thought for the Day's speakers usually say something like:

1) here's something bad that's happening at the moment (credit crunch, Israel, big accident etc)

2) here's what Jesus/Allah etc said about something that's not related to point 1) but we'll word it so it's similar

3) We have to understand that it's a challenge and that we must come together/help/love each other and/or look inside ourselves and it'll be fine, God says so.

Saying that, I do pray that something worthwhile is said tomorrow.

[Ted Max]

Saying your prayers, like all good atheists*.

* Slap me if that was your point

[Mark]

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