Since he couldn’t reach us by email (that would be tv [at] atheist-community [dot] org), an Australian blogger named Skelliot left a message in comments informing us that his university blocks the AE blog, as well as some other atheistical and scientifical sites, by categorizing us as “Occult.” Yes, I’ll be baffled by that one for a long time. Meanwhile, Christian drivel is given a pass, of course. Irony much? Anyway, it’s not a policy that speaks well for his college (whatever it is) presuming to be an institution of higher learning. I’d suggest a transfer.
Aug 07 2008
Headscratcher of the Day
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Nr Miller
August 7, 2008 at 2:18 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Umm… Ha? Gosh thats odd.
Tom Foss
August 7, 2008 at 10:16 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
It’s probably from the same mindset that causes people to say things like “you’re atheists? So you worship the Devil?” *Facepalm*
RedFerret
August 7, 2008 at 11:58 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Birmingham (UK) city council have done something similar, which is being challenged by the National Secular Society.TRF
rogerdr
August 7, 2008 at 4:44 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
We are occulting, in the sense that reason eclipses superstition. Otherwise, if bookstores can place all books about beliefs in “alternative and occult” sections and Christian ones in “religion”, I guess this shouldn’t surprise me.
Martin
August 7, 2008 at 6:15 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
And yet somehow, I don’t think the folks at this university who set up these filters are clever enough to be employing the verb form of “occult.”