What is Digg?1397 Comments
- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -100/+1138I don't think Digg is anti-religion its just pro-logic. Diggers don't hate on religion, we just hate when people use religion to interfere in the liberty of others. Example: gay marriage; a religious person see a religious issue, a Digger sees a question of freedom for a social minority.
Keep your religion to yourself and Diggers will keep religious barbs at bay, unless there is a good LUL to be had. - uptwolait, on 11/06/2008, -38/+935What would Jesus Digg?
- clsslc, on 11/06/2008, -68/+887The secular worldview is beginning to dominate, and this is most prevalent among the upcoming generation (who most predominantly uses social media). Not a huge surprise.
- angusm, on 11/06/2008, -32/+445Is it accurate to call it an "agenda"? It makes it sound as if Diggers wake up and say to themselves "It's nearly nine o'clock ... time for me to get online and start ridiculing organized religion."
Maybe it's just that social media sites on the Internet probably attract younger, more educated users. That's a group that's less likely to be religious. To call that an agenda is like saying that basketball recruiters have an agenda against short people. - Deeh, on 11/06/2008, -36/+390The reason digg is barely religious at all is because it started as a tech site.
Geeks and techies are people who have to use logic all the time, so religion doesn't have much place in their world view. - AlanFang, on 11/06/2008, -32/+309Dear latimes,
Welcome to the internet. We have no god.
Love,
The Internet - Ortega08, on 11/06/2008, -57/+324"Just as religious people want to convert people to their perspective, atheist people want to convert people to their point of view," Winston said. "The irony here is that atheism is a form of religion. You're still in something."
Yeah, I don't think so. Atheists just want religious people to stop spreading their ***** into our politics, schools, and scientific research. If they all kept their mouths shut and kept their religion to themselves, we would all be happy. - vango, on 11/06/2008, -33/+291or is it just pro-Science?
- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -63/+301people are able to make more informed decisions (especially youth) because we have access to more information, making it easier to expand our worldview/mindset and abandon archaic belief systems that have held our species back - Thanks internet. Forty six and two, just ahead of us...
- MisterGnome, on 06/13/2009, -30/+260pro thinking != anti religion.
- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -7/+237Top 50 sci-fi babes.
- darkcthulhu, on 11/06/2008, -15/+200Nah, a lot of us actually do HATE religion.
- ostracize, on 11/06/2008, -268/+450"Madden figures that more than half of the site's users don't actively practice religion, but says that number could be skewed by a vocal minority."
Let's find out shall we?
Digg this up if you're Atheist, bury if you're not - MakanGuru, on 11/06/2008, -5/+168wait, we have an agenda????????
- JesusTeaseUs, on 11/06/2008, -6/+120Actually, I like to Digg science stories and pictures of cute animals with stupid captions....contrary to popular belief, even I am not perfect.
- lolmax, on 11/06/2008, -12/+102its hard to keep your mouth shut when you think you know all the answers from your handy guide to absolute truth
- doremon313, on 11/06/2008, -34/+118I believe in flying spaghetti monster, does that count
- thefiendster, on 11/06/2008, -7/+89it's ok to believe in a religion, just dont shove down our throats.
- Autodidaddict, on 11/06/2008, -40/+122"dominate" is a little strong. I think like 96% of the world population still believes in fairy tales.....
- DooM, on 11/07/2008, -0/+73Didn't you get the memo..?
- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -17/+88Indeed, it's not specifically that atheists congregate here, it's that this is a balanced cross section of literate people.
- Ne007, on 11/06/2008, -20/+91My invisible people in my head are more powerful and more real than your invisible people in your head!
- Jeepy, on 11/06/2008, -13/+82I'm agnostic so I buried you. Careful what you wish for :)
- supermanly, on 11/06/2008, -0/+67He hath spoken.
- acanaday, on 11/07/2008, -5/+71Lets be honest here. I'm glad someone admits it. I use digg and I am also religious. There are plenty of articles on digg that bash religion. I try not to take offense to anything because it is the common view here, and people are entitled to their views.
- grylls, on 11/06/2008, -9/+72Thats becouse you were STUDYING logic, not using it.
- Ne007, on 11/06/2008, -8/+71Easy. Because we are surrounded by right wing nutjobs here in the U.S.
- dpzmcgee, on 11/06/2008, -16/+77This is like the "liberal bias" in the news.. Just as there is a liberal bias in reality, there is also an anti-religion bias in reality.
- Jones82, on 11/07/2008, -0/+59I would hardly say Digg is a balanced cross section of literate people, maybe if you add young, tech-savvy and people interested in "geek" pursuits. I agree that atheists don't specifically seek the site out.
- skhisma, on 11/06/2008, -5/+63Well put indeed.
- JesusHimself, on 11/07/2008, -1/+56Imposter!
- m3th0dm4n, on 11/06/2008, -11/+66Most atheists do not make the claim that 'God does not exist'. We simply do not believe in a god like you do not believe in the tooth fairy.
I'll leave you to think about this quote: "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins - Gizza, on 11/07/2008, -2/+54Hate to tell you this. But most countries outside of the US actually have a "non-believer" rate of over 50%, specifically the European nations.
- jgzman, on 11/06/2008, -8/+60Not true. It is possible to be in favor of both; however, if there is a conflict, one has to bend.
Bending your religion to logic may be a painful thing, emotional. Bending logic to religion is ignoring reality. - Jforsyth89, on 11/06/2008, -5/+56Dugg for your name with context to the post.
- DeathJux, on 11/06/2008, -17/+66Exactly. I'm a Christian, but I also believe in the Big Bang, evolution, and science in general.
Religion has absolutely no business mucking around in the realm of Science, just as Science has no business ascribing meaning to life. Science is the "How," Religion is the "Why."
I get pissed off when either one oversteps its bounds. - JeffH, on 11/06/2008, -4/+51Because Digg's primary fanbase is North America, and Christianity is most prevalent in North America.
There's other factors too. Christianity actively recruits, which most large religions don't, and that interferes with a lot of things. Also, not as many people cite Bhudda when they try and push agendas like supressing the rights of minority groups and holding back scientific research. - cheezintern, on 11/07/2008, -0/+45I must have missed that meeting
- koolto, on 11/06/2008, -1/+46Motivational Posters
- OmegaWolf, on 11/06/2008, -16/+61So, just a question. Why the anti-christian sentiment? I never see Buddhism, Hinduism or even Islam being blasted? It's always Christianity.
I actually disagree with the church on 90% of its politics (abortion, creationism, etc.), but not all Christians are right wing nut jobs. - bumcheekcity, on 11/06/2008, -7/+52I'm anti-religion in the same way that I'm anti-anything that makes random claims, and then further claims that their truth is an absolute fact, but can neither be proved nor disproved.
I'm also anti-anything that was written over a thousand years ago, contradicts absolutely everything that is observed today, but is still accepted as truth for no other reason than it exists in a "holy" book.
I'm also anti-anything that teaches us to be satisfied with our ignorance.
Oh yeah, and the massive idiocy that comes with creating a creator for a universe, but it turns out the creator doesn't need a creator itself, and so on. That's utterly ridiculous, and it pretty much goes downhill from there. You cannot have both religion and logic for this utterly simple, fundamental reason. So actually, it turns out I'm pretty anti-religion after all. - m3th0dm4n, on 11/06/2008, -20/+64Oxymoron alert! Dogmatic atheist LOL.
- sleze, on 11/06/2008, -4/+47He mentioned Digg just to have people read the article.
- Sabin, on 11/06/2008, -8/+51I prefer to think of it as humanity still crawling out of the dark ages. We have achieved so much over the last 700 years or so but we still hold on to these highly organized belief systems that were created as a way to control people and provide answers to questions where we lacked the knowledge to actually answer them properly.
I was raised as a Roman Catholic but my parents never forced me to follow their ways and always told me to believe what I feel is right. Faith should be something you believe in, not something you are taught. And guess what, being an atheist by choice has not turned me in to a mass murdering child rapist. I still think people should be free to believe what they choose (which is something that many religions don't abide by) and I think the multitude of religions on this planet are one of the things that make it so diverse and interesting. But please, don't try to force your beliefs on me and I won't try to force you to stop believing. - Ryuujin40, on 11/07/2008, -0/+42Himself riding a dinosaur
- sodade, on 11/07/2008, -0/+42Handy Guide to Absolute Truth™
- PuddingSenator, on 11/06/2008, -23/+65There's all kinds of groupthink on Digg, and it's not in any way confined to being anti-religion. Just try criticizing Barack Obama and see how fast you get dugg down...
- mrfunktastic, on 11/06/2008, -0/+42Kinda hard to click on a stone tablet
- GuitarHeroDenn, on 11/06/2008, -9/+50Science be praised
- StaticThunder, on 11/06/2008, -11/+52I'm not a youth and I didn't truly learn to revile faith and religion until I was in my late 20s. It took a huge degree of intellectual maturity to abandon comfort for reason.
Faith is foundationless, baseless belief. It deserves no place in adult society. And once its gone, you don't miss it because you can see it for what it is, a security blanket that doesn't even keep you warm.
The reason it appears we have an agenda is because faith is continually being pushed on us in the guise of law, or falsehoods are being propagated on the basis of it. The internet is a self-correcting system of ideas. Bad ones get filtered out. -
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