Today my wife and I parked our car outside B&Q in Carlisle, and when we returned we found this note under the windscreen wiper (hand written - not a printed flyer):

There are no gods
GROW UP and
stop believing in fairy stories.

Actually, it's a case of preaching to the choir, since my wife and I are both atheists. Also, and very curiously, ours seemed to be the only car around which had been embellished with this note.

As far I can see, the only reason why our car was singled out for attention is that, on the rear, is one of those 'Darwin' emblems which is made to resemble the common Christian 'fish' emblem - see http://www.darwinuk.com. So, presumably, the person who placed the note is somewhat short-sighted. (Or else he believes that Darwin was a notable religious teacher. )

Actually, the episode has set me thinking - and has left me undecided. Clearly, we should resist the idea that religion is a 'no go' conversational area, or that it's out of order to challenge somebody's religious beliefs. That (I trust!) goes without saying. But to leave a note attached to the car of a total stranger? Couldn't that be counter-productive?

Seriously, I'm not sure. Any thoughts on this anybody?

Oh! And if by any wild freak of chance, the author of the note reads this - thanks for the laugh that you, unwittingly, gave us.

Militant atheists don't put notes on cars, they put car bombs on cars.

Loren Michael wrote:Militant atheists don't put notes on cars, they put car bombs on cars.

But I have a plentiful supply of paper. So I'm sticking with notes for now.

Paul G wrote:

Loren Michael wrote:Militant atheists don't put notes on cars, they put car bombs on cars.

But I have a plentiful supply of paper. So I'm sticking with notes for now.

Good luck being militant with paper.

Spoken like someone who's never had a really, really, like, really sore paper cut.

Loren Michael wrote:

Paul G wrote:

Loren Michael wrote:Militant atheists don't put notes on cars, they put car bombs on cars.

But I have a plentiful supply of paper. So I'm sticking with notes for now.

Good luck being militant with paper.

Tell that to Karl Marx...

It seems to me that when a car cuts me up on the motorway, more often than not, it's one with an icthys sticker on the back[*]. Maybe they just feel they have less to loose in a pile-up.


[*] Either that, or Belgian number plates.