The new billboards!
1.07.10 | simon | 
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Without further ado, here are our three awesome new billboard designs that were put up today in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch…
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July 1st, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Awesome. Great job humans!
July 1st, 2010 at 6:13 pm
They are so cool! I can’t even decide which one is my favourite! Well done!
July 1st, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Good stuff! I’m so glad action has been taken on such rubbish. Keep up the good work! I’d be keen to volunteer if you need help with anything.
July 1st, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Yay fellowship of Atheists! They are all really, really good and each one makes such a powerful statement. I too can’t decide which is the best. :0)
July 1st, 2010 at 8:27 pm
So cool!
Where are they more specifically?
July 1st, 2010 at 9:40 pm
So how long before some muppet vandalises them, in the name of their god?
I would imagine (sadly) very very soon, unless they are nicely off the ground.
AL
July 2nd, 2010 at 6:27 am
Good on ya mates!
July 2nd, 2010 at 7:50 am
Who was the originator of the “one god further” quote? Was it Dawkins? If so, did you need to get his approval before being able to use it?
I don’t doubt he would agree, I am just curious.
July 2nd, 2010 at 8:39 am
Well Done Guys! Great to see this going ahead. As with some of the other comments, I’m waiting to see how they go down with the public. No doubt we will see some adverse reaction from some, but as they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity!
July 2nd, 2010 at 9:24 am
@deusinmachina – For several reasons we’re not explicitly publishing exact locations until next week
July 2nd, 2010 at 9:27 am
@Jan Suchanek – Dawkins did write/say something very similar, although the concept is older.
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” –Sir Stephen Henry Roberts
…is the original concept I believe. And he’s dead.
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:23 am
Great! Finally… and well done fellow atheists. Onwards and upwards with common sense and intelligence.
July 2nd, 2010 at 11:54 am
Brilliant. Bring some to Dunedin!
I’m pleased the Atheist community in NZ is willing to become more publicly recognised.
July 2nd, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Just discovered the “In the beginning….” billboard across the road from my Wellington office. Good job. The discussion begin!
July 2nd, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Thanks guys.
@SM – if you want them in Dunedin, you know what to do. Tell your friends down there too!
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Great work. A shame that “There’s probably no God” is being used when Richard Dawkins was never too fond of that saying in the first place. His marketing manager apparently chose that saying.”There almost certainly is no god” is much better(thats what Dawkins would have preferred for his UK bus campaign) but great to see them up anyway.
July 2nd, 2010 at 3:38 pm
I love the new Green. And #3!
Not so keen on “Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
How about “It is OK to not believe in fairy tales” ?
July 2nd, 2010 at 4:24 pm
“Now stop worrying and enjoy your life”
I agree that this wording always sounded to me a little too condescending. But I believe the Brits used the same wording and at least we know that that campaign was very successful.
July 3rd, 2010 at 12:08 pm
I’m writing this on Saturday. Have just finished reading the Weekend Herald and watched TV One News last night, but have to say that sadly no mention of the new billboards. Two questions: 1 – Are you intending to promote the use of the billboards to the media? 2 – If not, why not? As I believe most of the controversy that was generated over the original Bus Ads, created a huge amount of publicity, which is what we are after, to create the largest possible effect and stir up debate.
July 3rd, 2010 at 5:30 pm
@Paul: It was a main segment on TV1 News on Thursday night, and was discussed at length on Breakfast on Friday morning. There’s been NZPA articles as well – so stuff and nzherald online etc.
But yeah, more media the better.
July 3rd, 2010 at 8:40 pm
TV1 News item here:
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/atheist-billboards-go-up-in-nz-cities-3622283
July 4th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
My mistake! Must have missed that! Good on you guys! Keep it going!!!
July 4th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
I can’t find any mention of the campaign on Breakfast webpage for Friday. Do they put the entire show up on the web or only certain parts of it?
http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/breakfast-friday-july-2-3623076/video
July 4th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Jan – nah it was part of a reporters round-up that I don’t think they put online. A shame as Paul went on about the signs for 2-3 mins
July 5th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
“It’s all right You really don’t want to be an atheist, we won’t torture you or even threaten to have a big buddy’s monstrous creation do it to you.”
July 5th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Err, insert the “if”. Damn my proofreading skills!
The corrected text…
“It’s all right! If you really don’t want to be an atheist, we won’t torture you or even threaten to have a big buddy’s monstrous creation do it to you.”
…would be really nice written in small print at the bottom. It would effectively counter the inane claim that saying anything at all in favour of atheism makes atheism just another religion.
July 6th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Great to see some logical thinking on the subject of “god” concepts. I’ve been atheist for 60 years, the belief being confirmed over and over again as I looked at the sky!
July 6th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
. . . looking at the sky for so long and not seeing a god there?
July 8th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Saw one of these on Boulcott St. in Welly today, and it made my afternoon!
July 8th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
I saw one in Victoria St and couldn’t stop smiling as I walked past and beyond!