Criticism
On 8 January 2009 Christian Voice announced they had made an official complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority asserting that the Atheist Bus slogan broke rules on "substantiation and truthfulness". The BHA disagreed with the complaint and wondered how the ASA would be able to make a decision as to the "probability of God's existence".
Bryan Appleyard has criticised both the British Humanist Association and the National Secular Society for their campaign that the Scouts' Oath of Allegiance is religious discrimination. Similar views were expressed by Deborah Orr and Rod Liddle. Terry Sanderson of the National Secular Society argued that the oath should be modified, as it has in the past to allow non-Christians to become Scouts, so that the non-religious can participate in Scouting without having to compromise their human rights.
In 2009, Professor Robert Winston criticized the BHA's bus campaign stating that there is 'probably being no God' as "arrogant".
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