'There Probably Is No God, So Stop Worrying And Enjoy Your Life.'

The above words have been torn directly from an ad that may be running on the London local transit buses within the month, and even with those small amount of words, much is to be said.

Today, I wish to analyze it from different points of view, or, at least, what I see others would be seeing it as (ex: the ad as seen to Atheists, Christians, Muslims, and Jews.)

Atheists and anti-theocratic's will see this ad as a positive sign as to the rise in Atheist influence world-wide, and will probably continue to carry this slogan for years to come, with the addition that they will probably attempt to keep this slogans influence strong and hard for years to come. I, speaking as an Atheist, see this as one of the first steps to fighting against the ignorance and obviously misunderstood fiction of all religious texts.

Fundamentalist Christians/ Roman Catholics will see this as an incredible sin, and those who perpetrated its existence will 'all be judged in the end.' They will probably move to the next phase and become incredibly aggressive towards Atheists, and will probably try to force the government into making these sorts of ads illegal due to 'religious discrimination.'

This would be a move that would have, sadly, about a 50/50 chance of actually becoming law if conservative politicians have a large say in it.

Casual Christians will probably see this as a negative change, but will do little to influence its legal existence, and probably won't fight at all to do anything about it. They will be the people that may call it 'ridiculous,' 'outrageous,' or 'just plain wrong,' but they'll understand that these people have a right to freedom of speech, even if that means embedding their ideologies into popular culture through advertisement. Some may even think long and hard about the ads message, and may actually convert to the Atheist side of things.

Agnostics probably wouldn't take it into account at all. Some may oppose it, but they wouldn't even bother opening their mouths about it. Some temporary Agnostics (people that are undecided as to what they truly believe in) would probably waver more to the Atheist point of view. Whether they would continue to see it that way is an individual matter.

Jewish people (more Israeli Jews then international Jews) will take deep offence to this, and will probably retaliate against its message very strongly, using historical Jewish hardships as justification to how they're the ones who are right compared to not only Atheists, but the world at large (how exactly that would make sense, I don't know, but they HAVE used that reasoning before.)

My opinion on this whole affair is an opinion that makes alot of sense if you're a fellow Atheist or simply an Agnostic or casual Christian: this message is an incredibly respectable and obviously correct perspective on things such as this, but I do disagree with small parts of it.

I agree with the fact that there probably is no God, and that religious people obviously just use blind faith and the fact that their religions sound complicated as justification to say there religions are right, but if you use your common sense it'll tell you their really can't be a God if you actually think about it and don't start poisoning your mind with things that cause you to unconsciously force yourself into believing things like this. Religion is like Star Wars: Star Wars has a very long and complicated story behind it, and if George Lucas had wanted to, he easily could have said it was all true and made many people believe so, but not because it WAS true, but because it was so well thought out and complicated that people looked at it and said 'hey, if it's THIS complicated, there HAS to be at least some truth to it.'

Now, what I disagree with is the 'so stop thinking about it, and enjoy your life' part of it. Not so much the 'enjoy your life' part of it as the 'so stop thinking about it' part, and I'll tell you why:

Thinking about things like this is what makes parts of life very interesting, and can actually, in some if not most cases, add joy to life as opposed to add misery and hate. But, sadly, things like this will always breed discontent.