Scoil Mhuire's Iosaf, St Mary's Place

This article appeared on the Learning NI Website as Email of the Week. Success read a news desk piece about an advertisement on British buses stating that there was probably no God. She felt angry and wrote an email comment to the website.

Success
Scoil Mhuire's Iosaf GNS, Dublin
19 January 2009
What Religion Means To Me
I am extremely angry. Why is this bus advertisement happening now? What has caused this? I don't think it is a good idea to have so many people read this slogan. What is this message saying to kids?
Some people will just believe what they read without thinking about it. I would rather if people kept their thoughts on this matter to themselves and not write it up.
If they had this bus in the Republic of Ireland, I would not get on it. I believe that there is a God. I got this belief from my Mum. I spend three days every week in my church and I really enjoy this, my friends are there and they have the same belief as me. We are still normal kids and do normal things that teenagers do, but we know what is wrong and what is right.
I know what some teenagers are going through these days and have problems and it is important for them to know that there is someone there for them, always.
I know a boy who's parents have passed away and his brother is in jail and he told me he knows that God is looking after him and he wants to have a good life and not to turn out like his brother.
I enjoy the word of God, it helps me. If I am worried about something, instead of getting angry like I used to, I pray and He really helps me. Even the people I live with notice the difference in me when I return from church, I want to do good things and help people.
I feel really good after church. I bring a notebook and pen to church and write down the things I have learned, things that the pastor has said. I can read again and again and begin to understand the message of God more and more. I hope this message will be taken down and that people keep their thoughts to themselves.
Something small like this could turn into something huge, and we will be fighting over religion like in other countries.