PZ Myers killed my blog

So, Chris­tians have been pretty guilty of wrongly accus­ing athe­ists of doing bad stuff before — but the promi­nent athe­ist PZ Mey­ers wrote a rebut­tal to yesterday’s post, linked to it, and I was flooded with angry commenters.

I’m try­ing to keep up with mod­er­at­ing the com­ments (most of which seem to assume I’m an Amer­i­can writ­ing for an Amer­i­can audience).

I’m get­ting there — but the traf­fic and com­ments were the straw that broke the camel’s back with regards to my web­hosts, so I’m cur­rently moving.

I’ll flick the switch soon. In the mean­time — try to hold off on com­ment­ing because new com­ments and stuff won’t come through.

See you soon.

  1. 1
    ripeorangesound

    Myers. Not Mey­ers. Also a link to wtf you’re talk­ing about is pretty stan­dard. Maybe read some blogs for a while then take baby steps. You’ll get the hang of it.

    I’ll take my “smug” points now, kthxbai.


  2. 2

    Yep, teh blog sure does look dead.

    In other news: God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!

    p.s., Have fun play­ing with your superstitions.


  3. 3
    Marcel Kincaid

    Poor baby. And those bad bad athe­ists, dar­ing to respond o your offen­sive arro­gant igno­rant hyp­o­crit­i­cal swipes at them.


  4. 4
    blueshifter

    smug athe­ist here. nice blog, btw — ‘curiosi­ties’ ftw.

    I’ll be com­ing back. :)


  5. 5

    The blog was dead — for about 9 hours. I had to move hosts. Like Jesus it’s been resurrected…


  6. 6
    Sandi

    Just wanted to respond to your call for athe­ists to be nice. Have you EVER had a look at the posts chris­tians leave on the spaghetti mon­ster web­site? (http://www.venganza.org/) It is shame­ful: full of curs­ing, threats of vio­lence and death and poor spelling & gram­mer. Per­son­ally, I would be ashamed to be asso­ci­ated with the likes of those people.


  7. 7

    oh wow, and here was me just reply­ing to your adver­tis­ing cam­paign claim­ing jesus had answers, by putting for­ward some ques­tions, to just get all these chris­tians ask­ing me ques­tions and look­ing for answers… kinda cir­cu­lar .. kinda empty, yes frus­trat­ing try­ing to get past the stan­dard replies, that’s prob­a­bly the bit you took as smug. It’s more just hav­ing to go over the saaaame stuff again and again ..

    Look­ing for­ward to meet­ing The Great Ten­ta­cled One at the http://www.atheistconvention.org.au next year, will have to thank him for the mention!


  8. 8

    Nathan never asso­ciates with peo­ple who use bad spelling or grammar.


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