Stephen Green reports atheist bus slogan to ASA

Christian fundamentalist Stephen Green has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority over the atheist bus slogan. Mr Green says: “If you’re going to put out what appears to be a factual statement then you have to be able to back it up. They’ve got to substantiate this proposition that in all probability, God doesn't exist.”

He should be careful that this campaign — like most of his others — doesn’t backfire. If he were to win it, surely every Christian advert that decorates the front of churches and railways stations would have to be taken down. But he ‘reasons’: “There is plenty of evidence for God, from people’s personal experience, to the complexity, interdependence, beauty and design of the natural world.”

I don’t think that argument is going to cut it with the ASA. If it does, stand by for theological fireworks.

9 January 2009