As a follow up to The only good atheist is a dead atheist I offer this tidbit. It seems they are on to us.
There is no "type" of person who might be an atheist, but if you look at Web 2.0 community sites like Digg and YouTube, you'll see a growing number of users there who display anti-religion or pro-Atheism sentiments. I would go so far as to argue that without large tech-oriented sites like Digg and YouTube, the Atheism 2.0 movement would not have taken off as quickly as it has.
Earlier today, a story hit the Digg frontpage with the title "Murdered for being an atheist" and as of 3:15pm eastern it has over 1100 diggs and nearly 300 comments, easily eclipsing other stories that were made popular today.
Source: Digg and YouTube Powering Atheism 2.0 — Business Logs
1 comment:
I had never thought about this before, but I think you may be right. I have just started getting into social bookmarking, and it does appear that pro-atheist stories are fairly common on many of these sites. Given that there is a positive correlation between intelligence and atheism, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised.
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