Toronto atheists step out of the shadows

Toronto has taken the lead in bringing the Atheist Bus Campaign to Canada.

The Straight initially asked whether the campaign, started in London, U.K., by comedy writer Ariane Sherine recently, would come to Vancouver.

The January 7 blog posting noted that the event had been hatched in Sherine’s brain as she noticed the presence of Christian-based advertising on London’s buses. So, the campaign kicked off in the new year there on the sides of around 800 buses, each bearing the slogan, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”

One week after the Straight story, Chris from the Toronto faction of the ABC wrote in a comment to the story encouraging traffic to the Web site Atheistbus.ca and the group’s Facebook. The entries are all January 12 and later, so maybe the Straight alerted T.O.’s nascent atheist community.