And, yea, I shall delve into the archives for something to write about, for you may know me as a fisher of compliments, but I say unto you, I have become as a fisher of posts.
On the 19th of October the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites suffered a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) when unknown persons flooded their servers with requests that overloaded them, shutting them down. They were down for at least 2 days (although it’s up again now, a month or so later), and in retaliation atheists created a Facebook group to organise a retaliatory DDoS for God – or at least Heaven’s prayer servers – on the 8th of November.
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 with so many useless prayers that it causes his divineness to go offline as as result of our own DDOS (‘Divine’ Denial of Service).
I find it fascinating that the atheists have chosen to conduct their entirely metaphysical protest according to the structure set out by something that can only be found online. This alone makes up for this Dawkins-acolyte atheistm being referred to as “Atheism 2.0″.
It’s not going to be prayer meetings and love-ins for all atheists, however. Atheist P. Z. Myers retorted:
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to join in, because whatever I have planned for that time, whatever it may be, will be far more interesting and productive than babbling to an invisible man.
Chris Duckett ‘Atheist sites suffer wrath of DDoS‘, ZDnet.com.au (21/10/09)
Bennett Gordon ‘Overloading God’s Servers‘, Utne Reader (27/10/09)
