Comments on: Atheist Bus Campaign in… Sweden!

By: Jassim

Jassim — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:09:36 +0000

One font in Sweden thats very funny and awesome.
I haven’t notice this but good catch.

By: Patrik Lindenfors

Patrik Lindenfors — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:18:45 +0000

There is also a book that goes with the campaing. It has the same title and goes through all the arguments for and against the existance of God. I wrote the book, and donated the book’s web-site to the campaign.
There is a Swedish web-site for the book here: http://www.bokengudfinnsnoginte.se and a web-site in English for the book here: http://www.godprobablydoesntexist.com

By: Per Hultqvist

Per Hultqvist — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:41:40 +0000

Eric is correct, the member fee is 300 SEK (crowns)…not 3000, or $39…

By: Eric Wadenius

Eric Wadenius — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:51:09 +0000

It’s 300 corwns, not 3000! We’re not that greedy.

/Eric

By: GB

GB — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:57:34 +0000

It looks like Ikea because ikea looks so Swedish
I think people here in Europe are basically very pragmatic about their religion. Most consider themselves to belong to a denomination out of family tradition, not because they accept the teachings. They use the big rituals like weddings and funerals, but something like 10% of the people attend church more or less regularly. Most people are just too lazy to go through the red tape to get out of the church they’ve been baptised into.

By: jimmy paravane

jimmy paravane — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:52:32 +0000

Shouldn’t the word be possible? Somebody should probably tell them they’re agnostics. (grin)

By: Reginald Selkirk

Reginald Selkirk — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:24:37 +0000

A Jewish Star of David, a Muslim crescent, and a cross – something is missing here. Why are the Swedish Humanists afraid to take on Thor’s hammer?

By: hoverFrog

hoverFrog — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:23:37 +0000

“God is not probable” from the country next door to the country that bought us “probably the best lager in the world”.

I come from a nation (England) that is only about half religious, some call us half mad, and we have state sponsored Protestantism (C of E). It is my sincere belief that there is no better path to atheism that ubiquitous religious education.

Separating the church from the state protects the church from state influence. Keeping them together treats the church like a branch of the civil service with its attendance inefficiencies and bureaucracy. It fails to influence precisely because it is managed by doddery old farts secure in their government jobs while it succeeds in America because the people running churches are hungry and dynamic and protected from state interference.

Tear down the wall.

By: Wim

Wim — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:06:17 +0000

For those of you who are interested and understand Swedish, the atheist campaign in Sweden also comes with an online test to see how religious you are. You can find the test here: gudfinnsnoginte.se I also put up a video that gives a bit more background information (subtitled in English), which you can see here: Atheist Campaign in Sweden Have a good one, Wim

By: Cannonball Jones

Cannonball Jones — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:00:22 +0000

That really surprises me, I always imagined that with Sweden’s fantastically low levels of religiosity they’d have abandoned state handouts to churches. You have to wonder how long religion would last at all if that tax-payer money was suddenly re-routed to more deserving causes and the fantasists were left to fend for themselves. With such low levels to provide for them I wager it wouldn’t be long…