Amusing, in a headdesky way, or headdesky in an amusing way?

[tree_and_leaf]

Dawkins and Sherine back bus ads reading "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

.... yeah. Atheist says: stop thinking and take my word for it!

(Actually, that's a little unfair, because the ads are intended as a response to a series of evangelical ones threatening non-Christians with hell-fire. All the same, the fear of hell is not exactly integral to the faith of most of the religious people I know†, and I cannot say that a sudden loss of my faith would improve my enjoyment of life; quite the reverse.)

On a side note, buried in the article is the information that Dawkins supports a Tory humanist group. I didn't know he was a Tory, but for some reason I'm not entirely surprised. (ETA: see comment from lizw below; this appears to be a misunderstanding.

† The only sense I can make of Hell is total alienation from God, and therefore all that is good, of becoming lost in myself and in hatred, which does indeed scare me quite a lot, but I suspect that's not the sort of thing Dawkins et al think I'm scared of.

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[lizw.livejournal.com]

I find them quite cheering in their understatement, actually. I'm taking them in much the same spirit as the icons that some people had after 7/7, along the lines of "Bad day at work? Nice cup of tea. Boyfriend broke up with you? Nice cup of tea. Major terrorist attack taking out half the transport network? Nice cup of tea!"

[tree_and_leaf]

Existential crisis? Nice cup of tea!

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

"Never you moind about the fousands dead in Pithy Street, moi dear," oi sez, "You put the kettle on, an' we'll have a nice cuppa tea."
--Peter Cooke, Beyond the Fringe

(Sorry, just had to quote that...)

[lizw.livejournal.com]

*grin* No need to apologise!