Some Christians just can't get this atheism thing

Richard Dawkins and the British Humanist Association in England are off to a good success with their bus advertisements that say "There's probably no god." They're off to such a success, they're already being threatened with calls for investigations by Christians. Why?

Angry Christians have protested to Britain's advertising watchdog over an atheist ad campaign claiming "there's probably no God" on the sides of buses, asking for proof, they said Thursday. [...]

But Stephen Green, national director of the Christian Voice lobby group, has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), saying the ads breach its codes on substantiation and truthfulness.

"It is given as a statement of fact and that means it must be capable of substantiation if it is not to break the rules," he said.

"There is plenty of evidence for God, from people's personal experience, to the complexity, interdependence, beauty and design of the natural world.

"But there is scant evidence on the other side, so I think the advertisers are really going to struggle to show their claim is not an exaggeration or inaccurate, as the ASA code puts it," he added.

Ok. First, the only correct response to this: Ha hahahahahaha!

You're fucking kidding me, right? Wait, wait, wait, wait.

A Christian is calling for proving a negative -- as a reason for removing an ad. Bravo! You manage to make a standard and common stupidity into something unique and hilarious.

You can see this easily by simply applying the same standard Mr. Green desires, to the ads he supports:

The ads were the brainchild of comedy writer Ariane Sherine, who objected to Christian adverts on some London buses that carried an Internet address warning that people who rejected God would spend eternity in "torment in hell."

So, Mr. Green, get to work:

1. Prove that god exists.

2. Prove that hell exists.

3. Prove that people continue to exist in some form after they die.

4. Prove that those who reject god continue to exist in some form and are sent to hell.

Good fucking luck. Twit.

You can't prove any of those. Any evidence you cite is invariably false, specious, and flat out not evidence (IE: "because god is love!", "because I have morals!", etc.).

The atheist adverts are just saying that: you can't prove any of this shit, so why believe it? There's no reason to. Any time spent trying to genuinely ascertain the validity of religious claims is going to lead to realizing that there's no reason to believe in god, and therefore probably no god. So, why not continue to live your life as anyone else would, just without that belief? Exactly as you live without the belief in the lactating-mutating purple banana that creates elves that lives under my bed. You lived your life just fine until hearing about the banana just now, right?

The most basic way of defining atheism is the simple lack of acceptance of religious claims. By just saying "You know, I don't believe you can prove any of this, or give any evidence for these ideas." So, why follow them? Why accept them? Absolutely no reason at all -- so don't.

It is astounding how many Christians (and religious people/supernatural claims in general) fail to understand that the burden of proof is on the one making the claim: them.