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The Atheist Bus Campaign raises over £55,000 in less than 24 hours
The huge success of the Atheist Bus Campaign has amazed the people who run the Just Giving website. They write:
… this page is remarkable for the sheer speed that it’s raising money - we’ve been noticing that there are new donations every time we refresh the page. Whatever you believe, it certainly shows the power of online fundraising. The campaign has not only smashed its target for the British Humanist Association but it’s gone from trebling the target to quadrupling it in the time spent writing this blog post…
The aim was to raise £5,500, which Richard Dawkins said he would match. It began yesterday (21 October). By noon today the figure was over £58,000.
A fellow blogger in London commented this morning:
Did you hear the debate on the Richard Bacon show tonight? If that wasn't hilarious enough it was followed by an hour of homeopaths talking b******s.
You can listen again on the BBC website – go for the Tuesday night (21 October) show. Besides the BHA’s Andrew Copson, they wheeled out Stephen Green of Christian Voice, the evangelicals who created so many problems for the producers of ‘Jerry Springer the Opera’.
The Guardian’s Comment is Free post about the bus campaign by originator Ariane Sherine has attracted a record 1,200+ comments. Some have said they want posters on buses in the provinces too. It seems that atheists everywhere are starting to assert themselves, reacting to the way that religion is thrust in our faces in politics and education and whenever an ethical issue is raised.
If you’d like to donate, go to the Just Giving page.
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12.15 Thursday 23 October - Current total £83,720.00. Message on the BHA site reads: "Money has been pouring in all night from the USA, Australia, South America, Europe and even Muslim counties." Read about press coverage, etc. on the Atheist Campaign website.
Some critics, including "humanists" who think people ought to donate the money to charity instead, don't seem to have thought that the people who've donated are likely to donate to charity as well. The huge response has been a reaction to religious proselytising, and many feel, as I did, "At last!"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3374240/Paddy-Power-offers-odds-of-4-1-that-God-exists.html
Bookmakers Paddy Power started to take bets on proof of the existence of 'God' being found around the time of the Large Hadron Collider being switched on in September 2008.
The recent media interest in the Athiest Bus Campaign seems to have prompted a new flurry of betting amongst the believers.
The odds are now down to 4-1!
"A spokesman for Paddy Power said that confirmation of God's existence would have to be verified by scientists and given by an independent authority before any payouts were made, however."
How do you define "God"?
"However you want to" is the feeling I get from most religious folk!
With people this eager to part with their cash I wonder if I'm in the wrong profession!
Think of all the money that could be ploughed into something actually worthwhile!