An atheist movement plans to erect billboards on buses that tell New Zealanders: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life", according to an AAP report in the Herald Sun. The organiser, Simon Fisher, says he's sick of God being a social no-go zone.
"Religion should not be a taboo subject that no one brings up at dinner parties," he wrote on the website www.nogod.org.nz.
"We should be discussing what we believe and why."
He said the aim of the bus ads was to "challenge people to think critically about their beliefs, and especially to think critically about how much control they give over their lives to a supernatural being for which there is no evidence."
The campaign mimics similar ads plastered on public transport in Britain.
Response has been overwhelmingly positive, with several thousand extra dollars donated countrywide to make the campaign even bigger than first planned, the AAP report said.
It is unsurprising because data from the nation's 2006 census shows that 32.2 percent, or 1.3 million Kiwis, profess to have no religion, up 270,000 people on the previous survey, the report added.
Fisher is aiming for the ads to go up by February, ABC said.
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