Faith

Tony A
Tsunamis, earthquakes, thousands dead but the sky daddy either can't or won't prevent the mayhem. What's then the point of having him up there? So that footballers can thank him when they have scored perhaps?! Just move with the times and forget this caveman's nonsense.

cw
how can you claim that bad things are not 'of god'?i thought that everything was 'of god' and that 'god' could intervene in our affairs. Or is reality finally catching up with christianity?

Ali A
Good on them for the advertising campaign. We are constantly exposed to god and faith in every shape and form throughout our childhood and adult life; money is spent on churches, mosques etc; and lives are lost in the name of faith, but no one seems to complain. One little advert questioning god's existance and thousands complain. If instead of worrying about god and worship people spent the time educating themselves on other matters and on improving their society, the world would be a much better place.Next time you feel under the pressures of life why don't you go out for a run, have a drink with a friend and perhaps watch a movie!There certainly is 'GOOD'.

Steve Lawson
It seems that as a response to the crassness of putting God on a bus-advert, putting anti-God on a bus advert is pretty tragic. It's not the God-ness of the slogans that needs challenging, it's the bus-ness - any attempt to proselytize via bus-slogans ultimately debases both intelligent faith and intelligent atheism. It's the Trisha-ization of debate. Way to go atheists, sinking to the level of the fundamentalists... Can we just have a conversation?

robert fowler
This chapter...." The power of Radio"L O Clare I threatened to write again and I have done.A few weeks ago you had a guest on your program from Reading single person homless project. He Talked about a service they were holding in Reading Minster the following Friday.I telephoned for a ticket and was told by Steve that I could pick it up at the door.He asked me how I had heard about the service, so I told him I had heard about it on your show. He was quite pleased and said they were grateful to have the publicity and because of it they had had a number of enquireies about the concert and RSHP in general.Unfortunately I could not attend the concert due to illness but I sent them the money anyway.Next Chapter...."The Christian Scientist gets a bashing"Bye for now

robert fowler, building services technician, BBCM
L O ClareListen to the show most weeks.Favorites, Bishop of Reading and Father Holt.Could you get Richard Dawkins on your Programme.I have read the article about the posters on buses.Questions.Could Hanne Stinson tell me where he saw the bus carrying a poster "Threatening us with eternal damnation". I have never seen this, but I dont get out much. I have seen the posters for Christian aid week.Question. If Proffessor Dawkins thinks " No body thinks twice when they see a religeous slogan plastered across the side of a bus", does he think they will give more consideration to the BHA posters.Religeous belief and brainwashing are one and the same thing according to Prof Dawkins.His most treasured possession is a copy of "the origin of species" given to him in his pre teenage years.Could it not be argued there is a slight element of brainwashing here.The older I get and the more I learn the more I realise how little we really understand, but then again I am not as clever as the good Proffessor.

Alan C
Reading your article, you and I have a similar kind of existance (except I have been happily married for 37 years)The difference is, I can get by without the crutch that you call God, I'm sure you could also, it's not difficult.

Rob A
Clare, it seems that yours is a god of convenience? A lucky charm that you like to have with you. Sometimes it works. Other times you can't find it.What you seem certain of, though, is that it only brings good luck and not bad. And that "there certainly is a god".