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30 October 2009 · 10:10 am · Filed under Immaterial Witness

Jennifer finds an oddity on Facebook (yeah, how unlikely is that?):

As you may already be aware, recently the Atheist Founation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites were the target of a significant DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which began on Monday 19 October.

This is a call to all non-believers and advocates for freedom of speech to join us in a global co-ordinated minute of prayer with the aim of inundating God (in this context, the Christian god, God, as distinct from the Greek god, Zeus, the Egyptian god, Ra etc etc) with so many useless prayers that it causes his divineness to go offline as as result of our own DDOS (‘Divine’ Denial of Service).

The prayer minute will be at exactly 8pm (Eastern Standard Time) and 9am (Greenwich Mean Time) on Sunday 8 November 2009.

You might want to be careful with that, guys. Prayers can be answered in unexpected ways.

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8 comments

  1. fillyjonk »

    30 October 2009 · 10:14 am

    Wait, they’re praying to Someone they don’t believe exists with the aim of shutting Him/Her down?

    I haz a confused, as the cats say.

  2. McGehee »

    30 October 2009 · 11:49 am

    Actually, it makes perfect sense. Many atheists become so, not because they’ve thought about it and come to a logical conclusion, but because they’ve gotten mad at God and want to hurt Him somehow.

    You can generally spot which atheists are which by the degree to which they tolerate belief by others.

  3. fillyjonk »

    30 October 2009 · 11:56 am

    But…if you want to “hurt” God, doesn’t that presuppose some level of belief? And therefore NOT atheist, but maybe anti-theist?

    Or am I just trying to be too logical again?

    I have known atheists of both kinds. I prefer the kind who simply do not believe without having to offer the side order of snideness and acting-smarter-than those of us who do.

  4. Donna B. »

    30 October 2009 · 1:23 pm

    Wouldn’t they likely get an “Access Denied – you don’t have permission to access this page” or something?

  5. fillyjonk »

    30 October 2009 · 2:12 pm

    I dunno. I doubt God would deny access even to one who claims to hate/not believe.

  6. CGHill »

    30 October 2009 · 2:54 pm

    Determined atheist Isaac Asimov, describing a dream he once had:

    I dreamed I had died and gone to Heaven. I looked about and knew where I was — green fields, fleecy clouds, perfumed air, and the distant, ravishing sound of the heavenly choir. And there was the recording angel smiling broadly in greeting.

    I said, in wonder, “Is this Heaven?”

    The recording angel said, “It is.”

    I said [and on waking and remembering, I was proud of my integrity], “But there must be some mistake. I don’t belong here. I’m an atheist.”

    “No mistake,” said the recording angel.

    “But as an atheist how can I qualify?”

    The recording angel said sternly, “We decide who qualifies. Not you.”

    And wouldn’t that be a kick in the unchurched patoot?

  7. McGehee »

    30 October 2009 · 4:23 pm

    Or am I just trying to be too logical again?

    Too logical to understand what drives someone to claim to be an atheist for other than logical reasons?

    Is that a trick question? ;-)

  8. Dan Kerr »

    1 November 2009 · 4:22 am

    McGehee, in all my life and in all my dealings, never, ever have i met someone who calls themself an atheist because they are mad at god. That is so silly and such a large straw man that it would feed all the cows for eternity. A non-believer, the many i know, have come to the conclusion that there is just not enough evidence for any gods (there happen to be a few if you didnt realise). Many of them were christians, hindus etc, but they didnt hate a god, they just realised they were talking to themselves. Why hate yourself!

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