{"id":143,"date":"2010-05-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/fun-friday-forget-the-super-bowl-bus-ads-promote-faithful-faithless-messages.html"},"modified":"2010-05-28T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T07:00:00","slug":"fun-friday-forget-the-super-bowl-bus-ads-promote-faithful-faithless-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/fun-friday-forget-the-super-bowl-bus-ads-promote-faithful-faithless-messages.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun Friday: Forget the Super Bowl — Faith Ads Hit the Street by Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a new mom, I often improvise new verses to make those upteen renditions of “The Wheels on the Bus” more entertaining. Just when I thought I’d sung it all, a bunch of stories popped up this week about controversial bus ads — directing Muslims to leave Islam<\/a> in New York, Detroit <\/a>and Miami, calling Iran’s President Ahmadinejad a killer<\/a> in Washington D.C., promoting either Christianity or atheism in London <\/a>— and provided me with some new inspiration.<\/p>\n

The ads on the bus say “There’s a God!” “No, There’s Not!” “Leave Islam!”<\/em><\/p>\n

The ads on the bus hate Ahmadinejad, a<\/em>ll through the town!<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, I just have to figure out some child-appropriate <\/em>gestures to accompany this new verse… I think I’ll go with an exaggerated helpless shrug and perhaps some comical head-shaking. The baby’s sure to love it! Then again, I could sing the phonebook to him and he’d happily bop along…<\/p>\n

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