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| Christian refuses to drive "No God" London bus |
| 2009-01-21 |
| A Christian bus driver refused this week to drive a London bus that displayed an atheist advertisement saying: "There's probably no God, Now Stop worrying and enjoy your life" on the side and walked out of his shift in "shock" and "horror." The driver from Southampton in Hampshire said he was horrified last Sunday when he was just about to start his shift "and there it was staring me in the face, my first reaction was shock horror," driver Ron Heather told BBC radio. "I felt that I could not drive that bus, I told my managers and they said they haven't got another one and I thought I better go home, so I did," he said. "I think it was the starkness of this advert which implied there was no God." Heather's employer First Bus said it would do everything it could to ensure that he did not have to drive the offending buses. After meetings with First Bus managers on Monday, Heather has agreed to return to work. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Good for him. I wouldn't ride the bus either. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-01-21 16:28 |
| #8 Let us examine this: Offensive sign? Check Firebombing? No. Therefore not an Islamist. Fatwah Issued against driver, sign maker, sign buyer, bus company, township, county and nation? No. Therefore not Muslim. Archdruid approves sign and chides driver? No. Therefore not an Anglican. Driver launches Lawsuit? No. Therefore not an American. Driver refuses due to offense? Check. Therefore not a unitarian He must be a normal Christian. |
| Posted by: Lagom 2009-01-21 14:50 |
| #7 The local Freedom From Religion Foundation has said absolutely nothing about Islam, Wicca, or any other faith. They go after Christian groups only, as far as I know. |
| Posted by: mom 2009-01-21 10:35 |
| #6 ...equally atheistic towards all deities. Except usually themselves. Too many all to often demand others surrender on to them and worship at their alter, that theirs is the only true notion and all other must bend to them. We have the legal briefs to prove it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-01-21 08:23 |
| #5 There is no "there's probably no hearne" bus to offend the wiccans I think the "no God" clause covers Herne, same as it covers Zeus, Allah, YHWH, the Holy Trinity, Huitzilopochtli, etc, etc. Atheists tend to be equally atheistic towards all deities. |
| Posted by: AK 2009-01-21 05:56 |
| #4 Testing. Muslims are offended all the time at a drop of a hat, so this particular christian maybe decided to see if it sticks. Can be probably expanded to being offended by muezzin call to prayers, the height of minarets disturbing the skyline, etc, etc. At least that is the direction of being offended I'd like to see in substantial numbers. |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2009-01-21 03:26 |
| #3 It occurs to me, there is no "there's probably no hearne" bus to offend the wiccans, or "there might be aliens out there but they're not space brothers here to save us from ourselves" bus to offend the noo age types. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-01-21 02:16 |
| #2 Wait until he gets the Jihad ad bus, or the Wikken bus, or the Scientology bus, or the Magic Mushroom Bus.......you get the picture. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-01-21 01:36 |
| #1 The last Christian in UK? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-21 00:34 |