Atheism ads now provoking anger globally

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It looks like atheist bus advertising, which we're written about a lot, is becoming a truly worldwide phenomenon. Pro-atheism ads have appeared in the U.K. and U.S. and proposed in Australia, and now they're set to pop up elsewhere: in Spain, where 94 percent of the population is Roman Catholic, and in Italy, where Jesus Christ is like McDonalds—total market saturation. They've hit a snag in Italy, though. The line "The bad news is that God does not exist; the good news is that we do not need him" met strong opposition from conservatives and was yanked by the ad agency.

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