Caution: I am about to make a generalization...
In general, atheists pride themselves on their reasoning abilities. Believing that faith is not reasonable, they are confident that they have followed the evidence where it has led, or where it has not led, as they have concluded from an alleged lack of evidence that no deity of any kind whatsoever actually exists and that faith in any such deity is unreasonable.
And then they decide to pray to the deity whom they do not believe exists:
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.
The prayer can be about anything you want (but say it as frequently as possible in the minute we have assigned to ensure DDOS is achieved) or to whomever god you want. Its mostly directed at the Christian god so as to ensure we don't get too many return to senders from other gods.
Does this strike anyone else as odd? That atheists decide to pray to a deity they do not believe exists (for whatever reason) does not inspire in me very much faith in their reason.
Whether they are serious (and I have my doubts) or not serious, I hope that all their prayers will be answered.
