Atheist ads liken Allah and Jesus to Bigfoot

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With pro-atheism ads rolling around on buses worldwide for the past two years, how could the nonbelievers still get a rise out of the righteous? Comparing Jesus and Allah to Bigfoot and Zeus is one way to go. Canada's atheistic Centre for Inquiry plans to start a new Toronto bus campaign in January with the headline, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence," followed by this list: "Allah, Bigfoot, UFOs, Homeopathy, Zeus, Psychics, Christ." Campaign coordinator Justin Trottier says the ads aren't about "knee-jerk debunking" and adds: "We're interested in a genuine debate, a conversation about so-called extraordinary claims.

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