The Alpha Course

In recent years, after campaigns by atheists, paedophilia cases against the catholic and a general dive in popularity of the church, the Christians have been fighting back with their new weapon, Religious PR.  Names you may have seen plastered all over the area surrounding your local church include the Hope campaign, and the permanently in your face “Alpha Course”.

Purporting to be a course in which you can investigate and work out from the “facts” what religion means and is and everything, the Alpha Course is presented as a philosophical course that is coincidentally held in your local church hall, run by Christian leaders and doesn’t include so much of the Qu’ran, Torah and Flying Spaghetti Manifesto as it does the Bible (yes, before you comment, I’m aware that the bible includes the torah, I’ve read it).  Finally by true investigation you can meet those who believe one way and those who also believe that way, and some more people who agree and make up your mind objectively.

The Alpha Course traditionally advertise on buses, with white backgrounds, little religiousness and a simple message of come and find out.  Well and good but they’ve kind of shot themselves in the foot with their latest bus advert:

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“Does god exist?” followed by tickboxes: “Yes”, “No” and “Probably”.  This follows on from the “there’s probably no god” adverts on buses by an atheist campaign group some months ago.

Two little issues, Alpha Course.  Out of the three options you offer, two are positive, showing an obivous bias.  Where’s my “probably not” bitches?  Second issue is so much more fun.

They’re fucking tickboxes!  What do you do to a tickbox?

You only bloody tick it.  I’ve taken to carrying a sharpie with me at all times, and I’m not saying why, ’cause you already worked it out.

Watch this space for packs of “ticker stickers” which I will be vectoring up and Zazzling in the next day or two.

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