I find the title of this thread disgusting and disturbing. Being one of those accused falsely of being "militant" and as many know by now, I am really rough of god claims and religion. But there is a huge difference between blasphemy, ridicule and destruction of property you don't own, even disturbing a website through hacking.
This is not a label issue for me, this is just common sense in thinking about yourself and what you would not want done to you. That is how you realize that you should leave the belongings of others alone physically.
You don't have to physically deface something you don't own to have a war of ideas. Civility in a pluralistic society is allowing the other their claims and their personal property and using your own venues and public free speech to have the battle.
If I found out that any one I know hacked a Christian website, OR any website they disagreed with, because they didn't like the message, I would report them.
No atheist here reading this would like waking up tomorrow and see an error message "down due to DOS" and then have to put up with waiting for the website to be fixed.
There are certain things humans want that go beyond labels or our personal beefs over certain issues. One of those basic needs all humans have is the need to have our physical property and intellectual property to be safe from the harm of others.
We do not need to physically destroy anything when we have already the same open market of ideas to combat the things we find absurd. That alone and the strength of our arguments, and our growing numbers, is strong enough without reducing ourselves to the acts of childish behavior.
Humans, no matter what they claim, in a civil pluralistic society, all deserve the security of their own things, be it a house, a church, or a website. That is how we maintain civility even in the face of disagreement.
This is not a label issue for me, this is just common sense in thinking about yourself and what you would not want done to you. That is how you realize that you should leave the belongings of others alone physically.
You don't have to physically deface something you don't own to have a war of ideas. Civility in a pluralistic society is allowing the other their claims and their personal property and using your own venues and public free speech to have the battle.
If I found out that any one I know hacked a Christian website, OR any website they disagreed with, because they didn't like the message, I would report them.
No atheist here reading this would like waking up tomorrow and see an error message "down due to DOS" and then have to put up with waiting for the website to be fixed.
There are certain things humans want that go beyond labels or our personal beefs over certain issues. One of those basic needs all humans have is the need to have our physical property and intellectual property to be safe from the harm of others.
We do not need to physically destroy anything when we have already the same open market of ideas to combat the things we find absurd. That alone and the strength of our arguments, and our growing numbers, is strong enough without reducing ourselves to the acts of childish behavior.
Humans, no matter what they claim, in a civil pluralistic society, all deserve the security of their own things, be it a house, a church, or a website. That is how we maintain civility even in the face of disagreement.
