The Advent of Religious Search Engines

Beetle B. writes "Do Google search results contradict your religious views? Tired of getting pornographic results and worried you'll burn in Hell for it? Are you Christian? Try SeekFind — 'a Colorado Springs-based Christian search engine that only returns results from websites that are consistent with the Bible.' Muslim? Look no further: I'm Halal. Jewish? Jewogle is for you. NPR ran a story on the general trend of search engines cropping up to cater to certain religious communities. I wonder how many other 'filtered' search engines exist out there to cater to various groups (religious or otherwise) — not counting specialized searches (torrents, etc)."

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Re:Atheist

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An atheist is someone who puts belief in gods on the same level as belief in magic and belief in leprechauns.

Yes, but there's lots of kinds of agnostic. All it means is a state of not knowing. Some agnostics ("hard") believe that god is unknowable while "soft" agnostics believe that there may or may not be a god (some believe that there is, some don't have a firm opinion) and that they don't know god. Some agnostics think that no human knows God, but that he is knowable. And so on.

the only thing you can say for sure is that Xtifr does not know what atheist means — the belief that there is no God. That is substantially different from requiring substantial proof. Indeed, it is a highly unscientific view. The scientific view is to regard God as either unknown, unknowable, or outside the dominion of science, depending on where you stand.