Comment | 4.03.11 | bob |
In the vein of the Atheist Bus Campaign, the British Humanist Association ‘s Census Campaign slogan was to read “If you’re not religious for God’s sake say so”.
In the context it’s pretty obvious that that’s a play on words designed to make you stop and go “Whaaaa?” and draw you into the campaign. It would be pretty churlish to interpret the slogan as being in some way against religious people (it’s target audience is obviously non-religious people from the outset) or to interpret it as any kind of general admonishment of the public. Now, if a commercial company put out an ad saying “For God’s sake buy our brand of detergent you idiots” maybe there’d be a point t