The Battle of the Buses

There are 800 buses trundling around the UK today bearing the slogan 'There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and get on with your life". The organizers of this campaign suggest that this is merely a 'positive' counter-campaign to some group or other who had 'Jesus died for your sins' slogans plastered on the sides of London buses in 2008. These apparently also bore a link to a website that described the Lake of Fire in which non-Christians would inevitably be plunged by obliging angels on the last day.....or something of that sort.

Not to say that 'free thinkers' (as opposed to the rest of us who are in chains) wouldn't have come up with such an idea on their own.

Anyway - this appears to be a battle between fundamentalists of different parties and shouldn't concern right-thinking Anglican people one whit. It's not all about Richard Dawkins' need for publicity - but that portion of the campaign which is about Richard Dawkins' need for publicity could probably be identified without binoculars.




Given that Charles Darwin was once seriously considering a vocation to ordained ministry and that most mainline church clergy have little problem with the evolution of higher life forms from lower life forms, I suggest that the deadly conflict between the two is overstated.