Sad little Atheist with her pitiful little strawmen

Linley Boniface has let rip about the Atheist bus campaign and the billboard controversy.

Reading her rant you'd believe Christians are up in arms over the atheist advertising about to be plastered on the sides of a few buses.

Well no actually - no Christian actually gives a toss, if atheists want to waste their money on advertising more fool them, I say and so does everybody else I know.

In her screed there is little evidence of intolerance towards atheists from Christians.

This is the best the poor deluded woman can come up with to support her thin case

And when atheists launched a campaign to raise money to pay for bus ads reading, "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life," there was a predictable outcry from people who felt that atheists should, actually, just shut up.

Archbishop John Dew, president of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, made the usual noises about upholding the rights of atheists to express their views before making it clear that those views were much less deserving of respect than the views of, say, Catholics. "I find it interesting that a group of people who claim not to believe in the existence of God have chosen to make God the focus of their bus campaign," he said.

Indeed the Archbishop did put out a press release about the campaign, probably unwisely but it is hardly intolerant or in any way unreasonable and certainly no outcry.

Her other exhibit is John Roughan from the Herald of whom she says

Mr Roughan himself seems to be agnostic, but is awash with fuzzy nostalgia for the "ancient splendour" of the church. His suggestion that atheists consider themselves above God - difficult to consider yourself above something you don't believe in, I should have thought - appears to be based on having once witnessed a Russian tour guide being disrespectful in a cathedral.

Her closing paragraph is beyond satire

Then there's the decision by many evangelical churches to ignore climate change, presumably on the assumption that God will, in his own sweet time, turn the thermostat down, just as he once allowed the floodwaters to fall. Surely this is exactly the point at which we need to hear from atheists, who, with no belief in an afterlife, might be more inclined to try to save the life we have now.

Poor Ms Boniface hasn't caught on that her belief in "Climate Change" is a religious dogma, not based on science or rationality as I'm sure she would claim if challenged but faith. And a modern new age faith at that.

But she has caught onto a basic of grievance politics - a manufactured intolerance where non exists.