Comments on: Censorship on twitter, DDoS attacks on atheist websites – modern day crusades?

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:18:11 +0000

Yet many Atheists are content with there belief system that they don’t need to resort to violence or DDOS attacks.

By: Judas

Judas — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:14:35 +0000

@qaphsiel, Davo, Bruceh, Leisabet – thank you for your comments and contributions

By: Judas

Judas — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:13:21 +0000

@Philip – thank you for your comment.

To tie atheism and communism together is akin to tying Catholicism and child sexual abuse together – it can happen, but the two aren’t inseparable… and it is a somewhat tired argument that has been done to death and effectively debunked.

One should, I believe, attempt to focus on the actions of atheists in democracies and compare and contrast them to the actions of theists in democracies, that is probably more of an apples and apples comparison.

The issue here is that people are attempting to censor people for *not believing* – which to me is somewhat odd.

If I engage with a religious person in a theological discussion, I don’t attempt to shout them down, I merely ask them to lend weight and credence to their position using logic, critical thinking and reason.

Not too much to ask I feel.

By: Philip Trouse

Philip Trouse — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:16:42 +0000

I wonder why ignore the fact that communism as an atheistic regime sought to silence Christians and other religious people because they saw religion as evil? Not to mention the early Roman empire which also persecuted believers in another God, because it did not fit with their polytheism or emperor worship of the first century?
Surely the matter of openness (or bigotry) can’t just be directed against religious people? Isn’t it more honest to say that we all get threatened when someone attacks our belief position – whether that be a commitment to theism, atheism, or religious practice?

By: Leisabet

Leisabet — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:54:43 +0000

I don’t have time to hunt down sources right now, but it might be worth researching the similar censoring of #luciferiscoming a couple of months back – it was an ironic expression of excitement for the season premiere of the TV show Supernatural, not a push by Satanists, but it was taken that way by religious types who react before reading. This trend, too, was subsequently removed by Twitter. Interesting?

By: Bruceh

Bruceh — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:46:17 +0000

People seem to be protesting by adding the hash tag #censorship. I am not a twit(terer) but I thought you might be interested.

By: Davo

Davo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:01:52 +0000

We are bringing the site back up on a secure host built to sustain these attacks. it should be up shortly, along with the atheistfoundation.org.au site, the other site being hit.
Both were on different servers, and different IP’s .. bit of a ‘coincidence’ to say the least

As to who perpetrated the DDoS, who knows, we probably will not know.

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By: Cary

Cary — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:09:47 +0000

It’s hard to reduce out all the factors, but I agree that the trend behavior suspicious. If it was theists responding and overwhelming the non-theists you’d expect, of course, no god to stay flat, or descend somewhat, and know god to rise.

-@qaphsiel