{"id":1530,"date":"2010-12-02T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T22:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2010-12-02T13:40:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:40:40","slug":"atheist-group-kicks-off-new-bus-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/12\/02\/atheist-group-kicks-off-new-bus-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist group kicks off new bus campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>The  atheist group behind last year&#8217;s controversial transit  ads suggesting  &#8220;there&#8217;s probably no God&#8221; is rolling out a new set of  posters on buses  that places Allah beside Bigfoot and Christ beside  psychics.<\/p>\n<p>The  new posters bear the slogan: &#8220;Extraordinary Claims Require   Extraordinary Evidence&#8221; with Allah, Bigfoot, UFOs, homeopathy, Zeus,   psychics and Christ listed below.<\/p>\n<p>They will hit Vancouver buses  after they debut in Toronto, said  Justin Trottier, of the Centre for  Inquiry, an atheist organization.  The ads will also run on buses in  Ottawa, Montreal Calgary and  Saskatoon.<\/p>\n<p>Trottier said scientists  have made extraordinary statements to  explain evolution, but their  beliefs are backed by evidence. The  previous ads &#8212; &#8220;There&#8217;s probably  no God. Now stop worrying and  enjoy your life.&#8221; &#8212; angered both  atheists and theists, for  different reasons.<\/p>\n<p>About a quarter of Canadians said they didn&#8217;t believe in any God in  a 2008 poll on religion.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a9 Copyright (c) The Province<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/health\/Atheist+group+kicks+campaign\/3915313\/story.html#ixzz16ya2S4uZ\">http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/health\/Atheist+group+kicks+campaign\/3915313\/story.html#ixzz16ya2S4uZ<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The atheist group behind last year&#8217;s controversial transit ads suggesting &#8220;there&#8217;s probably no God&#8221; is rolling out a new set of posters on buses that places Allah beside Bigfoot and Christ beside psychics. The new posters bear the slogan: &#8220;Extraordinary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/12\/02\/atheist-group-kicks-off-new-bus-campaign\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}