Participate in the Atheist Census It’s quick and easy, and then we get to see the stats, too.
Currently, the most godless country in the world seems to be…Brazil. Somebody is doing a good job of promoting it down there, I think.
Get on the list. As a bonus, I think every participant gets the Mark of the Beast and is automatically enrolled in a sweepstakes where the grand prize is an evening with the Whore of Babylon. Also, any Christians who try to skew the poll will be instantly damned to hell by Jesus. Just warning you.
BUT THEY’LL USE THIS TO TRACK US DOWN AND TAKE OUR GUNS
OHHHHhhhhh
Atheist census.
Sorry, wrong paranoia subject.
Wow. That didn’t take long.
Looks like you’ve melted it:
Apparently, 4,484 is “a high volume of entries”. This doesn’t bode well.
Currently not accepting submissions
*squee*
I’m sure the Whore of Babylon would have a lot of interesting stories to tell.
(I’m sure whoever entered that as the grand prize considered that not all contestants are men *khm*)
Oops.
Apparently, it was the sudden influx as soon as it was posted on Pharyngula. The initial clickfest has subsided and they allowed me to submit to them.
Its working now for me. Waiting for my post data email….
I can’t get in to get counted right now. I’ll keep trying.
There are times when I feel proud to be Brazilian. This is one of them. It’s good to know that there are so many atheists over here, specially if you consider that this is still one of the most catholic countries in the world. People seem to be waking up.
I just submitted.
The number is slowly going up when I refresh, so some submissions are obviously getting through, but I keep getting the message mentioned in #3.
Managed, just waiting for the confirmation email.
Counted. I think the US contingent will edge out the Brazilians but it may be a close shave.
Just got the confirmation email.
Good stuff: the numbers keep going up. I’m really surprised that India is currently smoking everyone else, I wonder if it will retain its lead.
Bad stuff: 75.4% of surveyed people are male- which means that atheists aren’t doing enough to attract women, though I guess anyone who hangs out here could have guessed that already.
Derp, Brazil, not India.
So… would I have to go to my town of birth?
Okay, waiting on the validation email.
I’m validated and counted. Not only are the numbers on women low, my age range is barely a blip. (55-64).
Those who want to look up reports for individual countries, careful! You can only generate 5 reports per hour.
@microraptor
It’s better or worse depending on where you look (you can filter by country). Canada and the USA have around to 65% male (not great but better) where as Brazil is 83% male. The slanting of the data towards Brazil might also explain why there are so many ex catholics.
“an evening with the Whore of Babylon”.
Any chance of swapping that for an evening with Eccentrica Gallumbits, the Triple Breasted Whore of Eroticon Six?
I too am getting the message reported in #3. Head-count is now over 5 000. Not really a big enough number to draw conclusions about worldwide atheism….
Yeah, I figured that Brazil was the reason for ex-Catholics being so prevalent.
Only one entry from China? Having lived there I can tell you most people there don’t believe in God. How exactly are they using this data to extrapolate some meaningful numbers?
I doubt that they are yet. But the conclusion that comes to mind is using it to compare their responses to the percentage of the population that’s identified as atheist in each country to figure out how much of the total group places like Pharyngula are reaching.
Microraptor:
You’re underestimating the reach of the catholic church. I was just counted and tallied up another ‘catholicism’ and I’m in the U.S.
They ran this thing earlier this year and it ended up getting shut down for some reason, just a day after I put in some effort to promote it on some forums I frequent. Was a bit disappointing. But oh well, I’ve gotten myself counted once again, but I’m still waiting for the email.
Thank you very much for supporting Atheist Census PZ!
#3 – it’s not the number of entries that’s high and causing issues, it’s the rate of submissions – I think primarily thanks to Pharyngula at the moment!
Done.
Small point … but why did AAI use the Dawkins’ A in the video, instead of the more general atheist symbol — the one they themselves had a hand in helping select?
(It’s my avatar, if you’re wondering which one I mean; gaining in popularity and more distinctive (and less Dawkins) than the other.)
This is a bit late but uhhhh… One need not be male to enjoy a tryst with the Whore of Babylon.
Beatrice @7
Who said the Whore of Babylon is only interested in men? In any event, there must be a Gigolo of Babylon somewhere.
Beatrice @5
I countz gud two!
Actually, I’d like to substitute the grand prize for an evening with Hypatia of Alexandria — you know, The Librarian!
eoraptor,
Well, when a night with a whore is a prize somewhere, it’s almost certain that the whole thing is geared towards straight men. Women are hardly in the picture, lesbian or not.
Oooh, I like this prize better.
Sorry for the commercial, this is for the spanish speaking atheist
We are currently transmitting “El primer congreso mexicano de ateismo”.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/congreso-mexicano-de-ateismo
(sorry for the quality… currently transmiting from the “Escuela nacional de antropologia e historia”… so the internet here seems to be a prehispanic leftover…
It will be today and tomorrow.
http://ateomx.org.mx/articulos/comunicados-de-prensa/26-prensa/37-programa-para-el-primer-congreso-mexicano-de-ateismo.html
Currently discussing about Borges
Babylon? Isn’t that where all the world’s languages appeared fully formed via a godly fingersnap, instead of going through that pesky development process?
Signed the census. I’d like my prize to be an evening with Epicurus, and could you please hold the sun still, to stretch the evening out? Thanksomuch.
Hah, one of the benefits of living on the arse of the world, when Kylie Sturgess put up the link last night all went swimmingly. Maybe y’all should get up earlier?
Well anyway, that demonstrates the power of Free PeeZ.
Ok. Finally, the page loaded… only to tell me the submission form is disabled. :(
Also, apparenly no Uruguayans have been counted yet…
I prefer the Mother of Abominations over the Whore of Babylon. Just sounds sexier.
Looks like it’s going to be a really interesting program. I wish my Spanish wasn’t so awful.
Man, I was the first from Croatia to participate, and now there are already 8 Croats counted! Believe you me, for Croatia, that’s a nice number, considering that the page is up for quite a short time.
I’m not very keen on being told what to do.
So, no. I shan’t participate.
I am Brazilian, I’m happy with the numbers :-)
Brazilians use many social networks, so it is normal that we’re in first place now, due to disclosure.
But Brazil is an extremely religious country, so I believe, Brazil should fall in the rankings.
Where’s the entry for Vatican City?
Your courage in standing out against the pressure to do so is truly awesome.
No, of course not! You have to go to the town where a semi-mythical royal ancestor was allegedly born.
Hey. I’m a card-carrying atheist. My local supermarket benefit card has the mark of the beast on it already.
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Nick, heh.
More to the point, it explicitly puts on record that PZ’s
groupiesacolytesminionsregular blog commenters are at times refractory.There FIFY.
I refuse to accept that. It’s done no such thing.
I’m in. Number 7,509.
As for the Whore of Babylon–I dunno, Downbelow’s not such a nice place to visit…..
Also, the site seems to be overloaded (with 7.6K signatures??), is someone running a DOS attack or what? I demand to be counted!
Census!? You can’t do that!!! God doesn’t like them. God will be angry. God will send a plague to punish us…just like the Israelites after he induced David to take a census.
Also note: the Whore of Babylon can be male or female…perhaps both. Or even neither. Who knows.
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robro, the Whore of Babylon is an allegorical concept, and because it’s a reified weltanschauung contrary to the Abrahamic ethos, it’s personified as female.
Whore of Babylon.. wasn’t that supposed to be Rome? Or Nero? Shit I’m getting my Revelation/Divine Comedy mixed up.
I’d go with a succubus. Or incubus. I’m not gay but the Rocky Horror Show has educated me of the benefits of hypersexual beings.
Seems a bit odd to use the total number of respondents to establish the competition metric for countries.
Using the only two countries whose population figures I know, Canadians as a percentage are responding at more than twice the rate of USAnians
alkisvonidas says:
No, that never happened anywhere ever.
Status notice: the site seems to be down? WTF did they host this on? (unreliablehosting.net?)
[=8)-DX, slashdotted.
(There’s a slight difference between the reach of Kylie’s and PZ’s blogs ;) )
Overloaded by HordeHits. HeHe.
Sounds like we should also be registering ourselves here!
http://www.politicususa.com/pastor-wants-atheist-registry-to-track-atheists-like-sex-offenders.html
Down for maintenance, apparently.
They’re now saying it’s a DoS attack.
Don’t think it’s just pharyngulites. You can usually easily distinguish DoS attacks from regular (even heavy) traffic.
On 7 December Atheist Alliance International launched Atheist Census at http://www.atheistcensus.com, a global project to count and collect information on the world’s atheists. The response to the site was very positive, with well over 8,000 peop
le contributing before it was taken offline as a result of a DoS (denial of service) attack, less than 24 hours after launch. We do not know who is behind the attack, but it’s a reasonable conclusion that they do not like atheists being counted. We are working hard to get Atheist Census online again.
Carlos A. Diaz
President, Atheist Alliance International
The atheist movement is often said to be unwelcoming to women.
The grand prize is an evening with a prostitute?
See any connections?
Male or female, prostitutes are usually abused and suffering peoples. Joking about it (even mythical prostitutes) isn’t funny.
Wanted to be counted. And since “(…)they do not like atheists being counted.” I will be back.
Can’t keep a good atheist down.
Hmm.
First saw it at Kylie’s.
Couldn’t find any link to anywhere that would actually ask for my data.
Now it’s at PZ’s, and all I get is that DOS message.
Getting just slightly irritated.
Way to perpetuate a stereotype, champ! Some prostitutes are certainly that; then again so are some cleaners, farmhands, factory workers, etc etc.
Census still isn’t working. Religionists haxxorin’ for God!
I guess these kind of references happen because a) many atheists don’t consider prostitution / sex bad per-se and b) Christians (who PZ was parodying with his WoB/Satan language) often portray atheists as sexual perverts and hedonists.
Child murder and cannibalism are also not generally funny things to happen. But I still have a baby sammich for breakfast every morning.
To clarify my point a) – many atheists consider a slut/prostitute positive attituted to be much more constructive than the usual shaming that goes on by the major religions.