Netherlands: Atheist campaign doesn't plan anti-Allah signs
Atheists in the UK recently came out with a bus campaign. The campaign spread to Spain and was banned in Italy. Now it's coming to the Netherlands.
The Catholic Church in Spain and Italy claimed that signs saying "there's probably no God" are an attack on all religions. Though these signs don't single out any specific God, I don't think any non-Christians objected.
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"With the campaign, we don't want to make people upset, but to get them thinking," says Van den Berg [head of the humanistic think-tank CFI]. "Religion has a privileged status in our society. We want to show in a positive manner that not believing is completely normal and that also atheists can be happy".
Van den Berg says they already received dozens of mails from sympathizers. According to him, just one bus driver in London refused to drive an atheist bus.
For now he's ruling out that there will also be anti-Allah slogans on buses. "That can evoke fiercer reactions."
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Source: AD (Dutch)
Atheists in the UK recently came out with a bus campaign. The campaign spread to Spain and was banned in Italy. Now it's coming to the Netherlands.
The Catholic Church in Spain and Italy claimed that signs saying "there's probably no God" are an attack on all religions. Though these signs don't single out any specific God, I don't think any non-Christians objected.
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"With the campaign, we don't want to make people upset, but to get them thinking," says Van den Berg [head of the humanistic think-tank CFI]. "Religion has a privileged status in our society. We want to show in a positive manner that not believing is completely normal and that also atheists can be happy".
Van den Berg says they already received dozens of mails from sympathizers. According to him, just one bus driver in London refused to drive an atheist bus.
For now he's ruling out that there will also be anti-Allah slogans on buses. "That can evoke fiercer reactions."
(..)
Source: AD (Dutch)
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