Atheist Strike + Eucharist Desecrated

Who says atheists cannot organize themselves? A group of atheist bloggers who debunk everything Ray Comfort says (Raytractors) have organized a strike of his blog. I’ve joined their group as a contributor, so hopefully there will be some posts debunking Ray from me as well, after all I have done them in the past.

Ray Comfort rules his blog like a dictator. Every comment goes through a moderation phase before being displayed, and any comment that contains vulgar language or doesn’t capitalize “god” and “jesus” is removed. Repeat offenders are blocked. He calls his website “Atheist Central”

Due to this behaviour, and Ray’s continual ignorance in science, Raytractors has declared a strike for all atheist commentators of the blog. The aim of the strike is to see what happens to the blog when it is pretty much devoid of all life, since it is evident that Ray has more atheist “followers” than theist ones, mainly because of the absurdities of his beliefs. The rules of the strike are quite simple. You can visit Ray’s blog as many times as you want, but you cannot post a comment. Instead, why not write your comment as a blog post if you have a blog, or send in your comment to an atheist blog you read. I would be willing to post any comments you want to make about Ray Comfort right here.

The strike has no official end, although the words “2 weeks” have been thrown around. Keep up to date with the Raytractors blog though, and you will know when it actually happens. If you see an atheist commenting on Ray’s blog despite the strike, be nice and inform them of it.

Eucharist Desecrated

Sorry to bind two posts into one, but moving house is taking all the time out of my life. I’ve already spent the day helping carry boxes upstairs, cleaning out the shed, and ordering a telephone line. The other main news today is PZ Myers eventual desecration of the Eucharist.

Bowing to popular demand, Myers nailed a rusty nail through the “cracker” and into some pages torn out of the Koran, as well as some torn out of The God Delusion, simply to prove that at the end of the day, they are just paper. There is no need to treat any of them with respect.

This picture will be sent around the interwebs like wildfire:

Cracker, Qu'ran, and The God Delusion with a good helping of coffee and banana

So, “Crackergate” is over…or has it just begun? Bill Donahue of the Catholic League has already released a press announcement over the issue calling for the immediate dismissal of Myers by his university. I can see this going on for a very long time.

To keep you entertained, here are some pictures of the new house I took whilst moving in. One of which is of my housemate Hiren and I whilst relaxing in the lounge with our laptops. Before you point it out in the comments, yes my laptop is really that big (19″ with a full keyboard), and yes it is far too reflective for its own good.

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Written by Adrian Hayter

July 24th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

Posted in atheism, catholicism, religion

Tagged with atheist, eucharist, pz myers, ray comfort, religion, strike

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Comments to “Atheist Strike + Eucharist Desecrated”

Luis Dias Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 12:15 pm (GMT)

Adrian, just cut the thing altogether and simply leave comfort’s blog already. I’ve done the same in “atheism is dead”, for I was tired of the moderation issues too.

It’s like evolution. Good sites prevail, bad ones don’t. The only thing that we have to do so that we ensure evolution goes the right way is to avoid masochistic activities, like enduring in an offensive and demeaning blog which doesn’t even respect other people’s opinions.

Luis Dias Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 12:32 pm (GMT)

I never went to comfort’s blog until you talked about it. Now that I did, it is obvious that it is a trollish blog. It is written as if we live in an idiocracy where the most retarded argument always wins, but unless Ray is a total idiot (which I really much doubt), one has to conclude that he merely trolling the internet, spreading confusion and emotional baits, creating controversies and polarizations between idiots and otherwise intelligent people who can see right through his idiocies.

Don’t mind the popularity of it. For instance, PZ has 10x the comments that this moron has, so clearly atheists are winning the internet.

There are far more intelligent people in the web, and amazingly, some of them are even christians (!) and able to debate things a little more deeply.

Let’s simply forget the simpletons.

Stephen Hand Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 3:03 pm (GMT)

It’s amazing how Meyers knows these desecrations reported in history did not (could not!) take place —and then he desecrates the Host himself…to prove his point!?!? Is that the kind of logic they teach at UM?