Friday, November 27, 2009

Bus billboard for religious postmodernists

So you know about the war of the billboards, right? The clever atheist billboard campaign begun in the UK and various, largely less convincing (because derivative or grumpy) religious responses. (Other religious people have been ecstatic, like the Swiss religious school teachers I read about whose recalcitrant pupils finally got interested in talking about religion after seeing the atheist billboards on a field trip to London).

The billboards have been a matter of some debate in Switzerland, with various cantonal bus authorities refusing to run the atheists' ads, while running plenty of (Christian) religious ads -- another piece of Switzerland's current abominable xenophobic fit of religious self-righteousness, like the disgusting referendum this weekend to forbid the construction of minarets, which never ceases to make my blood boil (These damned posters are all over my neighborhood. Hello, German-speaking Europe: targeting individual religious minorities and restricting their civil rights? Haven't we been over this before? If you are Swiss and reading this, please get out and vote this weekend!)

Anyway, back to the billboards. As usual in contemporary public debates over religion, I feel left out.

Here would be my entry (if someone wants to photoshop it up in the right font, I would naturally be obliged):

There's a God, all right, but don't worry: she's not like they say she is.

Also, if you prefer a different metaphor, that's okay too.