No doubt many of you will be familiar with the atheist bus ads around Britain and the fuss kicked up by a few whining Christians.

Let’s not forget that they were a response to religious bus ads giving links to sites which bang on about eternal torment for non-believers.

Well, now they’ve started responding with ads of their own, specifically responding to the atheist bus campaign. These bus ads will be gracing the streets of London:

Main observation: they’re rubbish. Plus the first one is insulting (I know, it’s a quote from their special book, but that doesn’t make it fine)

Then there’s the ‘Jesus bus’ campaign (I wonder if they’d appreciate my suggestion that they should call it the ‘Jebus campaign’).

Urgh.

Check out the ‘Atheists’ page on their website. It’s brilliant. Actually the whole site is a comedy goldmine.

By getting a large number of people to back up an argument, one can convince themselves that what they are doing is right.

Well, I couldn’t agree with you more…..wait…..you were talking about us, weren’t you? There goes another irony meter. Also:

The person that started this organisation does not believe in atheists.

Er, wtf?

Their original suggestion for bus ads was: “There probably is a god. Now stop worrying and love each other”.

There seems to be a serious omission from these ads.

Fixed it for them.

The atheist ads were reported to the Advertising Standards Agency by some Christians, including professional idiot Stephen Green. The ASA ruled in favour of the ads. I wonder what the ASA will make of ‘there definitely is a god’ and ‘the fool hath said in his heart there is no god’. Hmmmm.

I also have to wonder if non-religious bus drivers will be allowed to opt out of doing their jobs (presumably not).

Ah, the fetid stench of religious hypocrisy.

Finally, I have to wonder if this escalation in the bus wars means it’s time to roll out my suggested slogan: “There’s no god. Now stop wasting everyone’s time with your superstitious bullshit”.

UPDATE: got this link through twitter from Tim Minchin, who was passing it on from Ben Goldacre. It allows you to generate your own bus slogans. Endless fun.