Atheist Census is back online!

Paul King | 17.12.2012 06:27

Atheist Census is back online! (after Doe attack)
STAND UP AND BE COUNTED

We are pleased to let you know that Atheist Census is back online at www.atheistcensus.com!

Atheist Census was launched on 7 December and received 8,880 confirmed entries with another c. 2,300 pending before it was taken offline by a DoS (denial of service) attack about 17 hours after launch. The census and DoS attack were mentioned in media reports: Huffington Post, Examiner, Christian Post.

If you have not already contributed to Atheist Census, make sure you are counted! All data from before the DoS attack has been retained, so if you have already confirmed your data you do not need to enter it again. While the DoS attack did take Atheist Census offline the database was not compromised in any way. Further, once data has been confirmed the corresponding email address is stored in a one-way encrypted format for enhanced security.

We have re-sent confirmation emails to the c. 2,300 people who had pending entries for Atheist Census - if you have received an Atheist Census validation email in the last 12 hours please click on the link in the email to confirm your data.

And please help Atheist Census grow by telling others about it - "like" Atheist Census on Facebook, tweet about it (#atheistcensus), distribute the link through any social media channels you use!

Finally, the cost of Atheist Census has increased as result of additional protection put in place after the DoS attack. Any donations to support Atheist Census would be greatly appreciated - please click here to donate.

http://www.atheistcensus.com/donate

Thank you for your support.

Paul King
Homepage: http://www.atheistcensus.com

Comments

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The problem is not religion it is fundamentalism

17.12.2012 12:41

The problem is not religion it is fundamentalism.
Progressive religious websites:

http://www.progressiveandreligious.com

http://www.libchrist.com

Progressive

@progressive. God is dead!

17.12.2012 13:16

now get over it! Religion is backward and nonsensical so please do not try push your madness on us!

Aunty Christ

Progressive is right the real problem is the fundamentalists!

18.12.2012 17:31

Progressive is right the real problem is the fundamentalists like this moron here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQD6virbh8

Free thinker

another vote for religion

18.12.2012 19:00

Religion is not that bad. The problem is when other people stick their noses in and start telling people how to live their lives. If someone wants to follow a religion, let them! Its none of your business

Laughing at the fools

Religion is an outdated superstition

18.12.2012 23:06

I highly recommend reading Dawkins "the god delusion" for an excellent critique of the religious worldview.

anti-theist

The God Delusion

18.12.2012 23:33

I read it. Although it did have a lot of good points of how religions have 'evolved' over time from simple worship of the sun to more complex forms, I think we have got to just look around the universe at all the complexity and beauty to realise that this couldn't of happened by chance. I don't know what or how, but to believe that some chemicals mixed together would randomly produce a flower, a butterfly or a human being is too far fetched for me. These things are much too complex to have come about by chance.

The idea that Earth just happens to be in the Goldilocks zone, and just happens to have the right oxygen, and just happens to have a tidal force and just happens to have water etc is too coincidental.

So Dawkins may be right in a lot of respects but he doesn't explain how things came about. It is easy to criticise but harder to explain.

There is a power

faith in religion

19.12.2012 00:05

a lot of terrible things have been done in the name of God but that doesn't mean he doesn't exist. That is the sins of man, not God. To deny God because man is evil is denying God's love.

christian

Re: There is a power

19.12.2012 09:23

From the content of your comment I think it's highly unlikely that you have read The God Delusion and that if you really have then you clearly didn't understand it. "Chemicals forming to make a flower" may seem unlikely to you but all the knowledge and evidence we as a species have acquired suggests that is what happens. Just because it is easier for you to conceptualise a bearded man clapping his hands and making it so does not mean that is more likely, it is STUNNINGLY far-fetched.

And yes, it is unlikely for a planet to have all the correct conditions to be able to support life; but it is also unlikely that if I put all my money on one number on a roulette table that I will win. Does that mean nobody ever wins!? It's simple probability mate, billions of planets x tiny chance of supporting life = at least some life!

I'm sorry if this isn't fun to hear but Dawkins is offering a hand, why not take it and pull yourself off your knees? There is no god but yourself, love it.

South Coast Sab

Practical Inspiration

19.12.2012 18:40

Whereever there are any chances of successes in current revolutionary movements against neoliberal hegemony over this world, a decisive ingredient in them is agnostic consensus that universalist revolutionary perspectives cannot rely on how that specific question is being answered by certain individuals.

still not kneeling for science

Re: Still not kneeling

19.12.2012 21:24

I'm guessing that you're a different person to "There is a Power" because they at least seem to make a rational point rather than just spouting academic language in what I can only assume is an attempt to make your scribblings seem more valuable.

Correct me if I'm wrong but your comment basically says:
"Global revolutionaries can't expect to all agree on religion."

Well, yeah. Duh.
I never said that they could, or even should. What I'm saying is that religion is fundamentally incorrect based on all evidence we have. I don't think you can deny that, organised religion sure doesn't; that is the whole concept of "faith".
I would go further and say that religion IS counter-revolutionary because it discourages self-empowerment, but that is just a personal opinion.

Care to reply?
Maybe like a human this time?

South Coast Sab

faith is faith

19.12.2012 23:46

Response to: Care to reply? Maybe like a human this time?
That's not very nice.

You say that 'religion is fundamentally incorrect based on all the evidence we have'. I'd like to respond to that but I figure you'll just take snide swipes based on your superior intellect rather than be open to other viewpoints. However, if you insist:

1) A difficult concept for atheists to understand is that religion is based upon faith and belief. To me, I know God exists in the same way I know the sun will rise in the morning. I have belief in myself, that I can achieve things and cope with the struggles of like, in the same way I have belief in my faith and God.

2) I feel the evidence is there, all you need to do is look around you. Did life in all its complexities and beauty occur by random chance or was it created. I find it ludicrous that people belief it occurred just from some various chemical elements being mixed up in a warm environment. There is evidence that we can't just stick some chemicals in a jar, heat it up and expect life to pop out of it. There is plenty of empirical evidence that the 'scientific' answers don't cut it.

3) religion is counter-revolutionary? So what? Does that mean it is wrong.
All this is showing is your prejudice. Anything that is not "revolutionary" is bad and therefore cannot exist or must not be followed?

Maybe your agenda is more about revolution and who is controlling whom, rather than opening your mind to the truth of the world. Humans indeed - that is how a typical human replies these days i suppose.

There is a power

Faith

20.12.2012 00:07

I didn't bring up faith or organised religion in regards to revolution, I merely responded to the previous poster. Whether religion is valuable to a global revolution isn't what we were talking about, we were talking purely about what is true.

Now, unlike most religious people I'm not arrogant enough to think that I know exactly what is true; that's why I put my trust in rational, critical thought and scientific evidence. You on the other hand KNOW god is real, just because you do. Just like thousands of people who KNOW their imaginary friend is real or KNOW that if they don't turn the light on and off 8 times before they get into bed that their whole family will die. I'm not trying to be mean and I'm sorry if this feels insulting but can you give me one reason your KNOWING is any different?

South Coast Sab

There are many libertarian and anarchist religious people

20.12.2012 11:42

There are many libertarian and anarchist religious people. This site is quite interesting:

http://sexisnotsin.com

Libertarian

Reality check.

21.12.2012 10:25

Richard Dawkins has spent most of his life attacking religion and faith. Yet statistical analysis shows that despite all his writings, his book deals and his television series...the world remains cheerily commited to God and the concept of faith (except in countries ruled by businessmen).

So statistically, as a matter of empirical fact, the evidence supports the supposition that Professor Richard Dawkins body of work is a critical failure.

Thats the beauty of science...facts are facts!

Inshallah.

agent of faith.