Following UK, USA and Spain, Brazil's ATEA (brazilian Association of Atheist And Agnostics) will have ads on buses in Porto Alegre eand Salvador for a month, maybe more if they can get the money.

The Association tried to do the same in São Paulo, but the bus company refused. These are the images of the four ads to be used:

Upper-left reads: In light green background: "Doesn't believe in God". In red background: "Believes in God" . On Darker green: Religion does not define character. In Yellow (same for all images): "Say no to the prejudice against atheists".

Upper right: red: "If God exists, everything is allowed."

Bottom-left: light-green: "Faith gives no answers. It just stops questions."

Bottom-right: red: "We're all atheists with other people's Gods"

So, what do you think?

Too offensive? Maybe just asking for more trouble? Or is it a good wake-up call?

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/843807-campanha-em-onibus-diz-que-deus-pode-nao-existir.shtml

Seems like, as with a lot of athiest, they missed the point. Also seems like a lot of stereo typing and attacking. Better to get people to your cause by showing them how great it is. Not attacking what someone else believes in.

What a waste of money!

There were many times in  history where people could reject religion. But they chose not to, and they still do today. Religion is just part of the human psyche.

By the way, hitler was an atheist. At the end of the war, he wanted the german people to die with him, because... the best had fallen, and germany was proven weak and therfore needed to be destroyed. The whole Russian invasion was one best examples of Darwanism in human history.

Oh I thought the only god in Brazil was the Samba...

É tão estupidamente hilário que até eles mesmo se contradizem. No terceiro quadro eles dizem que religião não define caráter, e depois mostram os dois primeiros quadros!KKKKKKk só pra rir mesmo.

While Hitler originally used religion to show meaning in a cause, didn't he want to eliminate Christianity from the reich?

(Also the first one is really bad, I mean we had murderers and genocide done by people who don't know worship god.)

I think this is great. I am sick and tired of seeing dozens upon dozens of "in your face" or "shock" christianity ads.  If  a picture of a red bloody flatline with the message "when you die,  you will meet god" and things of that nature can be on billboards then I can't see why these couldn't either. Nobody deserves complete dominance over public advertisement/ exposure but I am sure there is public out-rage about these because extremists can't get it through their head other people exist too.

Honestly all of it is a waste of money because it's not like anyone lets a billboard decide their beliefs and faith. If you do and are that desparate and succeptable then you are a pathetic individual. All the more reason religious people shouldn't be upset about these and vice versa. I am only sick and tired because it seems so one sided and all I see is the in-your-face religious ones since they seem to be more "in control" of public media and take more time out of their life to shout their opinions to people who don't care.

Hey that ad is BS every add that insult the holy reich is BS :P

go AH :P. too much medieval total war

Yeah.

I think "religion does not define character" and "we're all atheists with other people's gods" are allright, they are like "see, we're human too, don't be so hard on us" or something. The other two are more offensive and unecessary.

agree