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We're sure you've all probably heard about this by now, but we're both so excited by what Ariane Sherine and Simon Veksner are doing that we wanted to give a little mention of the atheist bus campaign. It has been launched as a backlash to the heavy handed Christian ads that are running at the moment. The bus side that will be running says "There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

It's slightly ironic that this existing creative is actually an agnostic message, but maybe they were erring on the side of caution.

Simon asked creatives to send in some other ideas for bus side headlines, so just for the hell of it (sorry) in between other briefs we sent in a bunch of properly atheist ideas. We looked quite a pair, sitting in the breakfast club pouring over a bible yesterday.

We've seen a few comments on Scamp saying that if God exists he'll 'blow up' the atheist-clad buses when they run, so we'll wait and see what happens in January when the campaign breaks.

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  November 20, 2008

And for the record can you share your devil-worshipping lines with us simple god-fearing folk?

  November 21, 2008

Here are our ideas.

(Please note: for entertainment purposes only, we have included some of our puntastic headlines too..)

And on the 8th day, God created the San Andreas fault

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And on the 9th day, god created the paedophile

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And on the 795,460,56th day, god created a little boy named Adolf.

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And on the 780,997th day, God created Hurricane Katrina.

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Holy communion.

Spreading coldsores everywhere since 1AD.

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Weapons of mass delusion found

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The holy brible

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How did word of mouth become word of god?

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The Holey Ghost

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If god loves everyone, why is heaven like a glorified members club?

  November 21, 2008

I like the Word of Mouth line, I see this working beyond a line of copy, more as a strategic route - there is a need to get under the skin of religion to question the principles on which it is built.

  November 21, 2008

It's a really interesting brief that also throws up the old morality question for creatives. Is there anything we wouldn't work on?  Would creatives really sell their own grandmothers to the devil?

It's easy for creatives to try and solve a problem because that's what we do. We probably never really ask,   'Should we?'

Doing something that makes people reassess the BNP so that they gain more power for example, is a really interesting and probably an award winning opportunity. But if you cracked it, could you forgive yourself for being partly responsible for having the UK's first BNP Prime Minister?

Although there may well be no all powerful god(s), is it right for us to convince people there isn’t?

  November 27, 2008

Thanks JP. Andrew Cracknell covered a lot of this in his recent article in campaign -www.brandrepublic.com/.../Adlands-moral-maze

Just reading it quickly, I don't think he looked at it from the point of view of the teams, mainly the chief executives.

It's relatively easy to say you won't work on things in principle. But think about it from the point of view of younger teams trying to get ahead, or get hired...  I imagine it's not so easy to turn down work for moral reasons when you've got a student loan debt the size of Belgium - and not when you risk looking like a tree-hugging prima-donna. The longer you've been working, the easier it gets to be selective. I think we all want to ask 'should we', but only some of us have the luxury of answering the question honestly. Anyway, back to our obesity-enhancing KFC brief.

  February 11, 2009

If anyone wants to create their own bus side slogan here's where to do it..

ruletheweb.co.uk/.../bus

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