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Indonesian Man Faces Five Years For Atheist Facebook Post

Posted by samzenpus on from the unlike-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "31-year-old Alexander Aan faces a maximum prison sentence of five years for posting 'God does not exist' on Facebook. The civil servant was attacked and beaten by an angry mob of dozens who entered his government office at the Dharmasraya Development Planning Board on Wednesday. The Indonesian man was taken into protective police custody Friday since he was afraid of further physical assault."

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  1. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wish more Christian bashing atheists would move to islamic Countries.

  2. Religious people are scary... by Mattsson · · Score: 1, Troll

    Religious people are scary...

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    /.Mattsson - My native language is not English, so please don't whine over linguistic errors. (That's lame anyway...)
  3. Re:Atheism isn't a belief system by Cederic · · Score: 1, Troll

    Fuck your metaphysical word wrangling.

    I do not believe in god.

    I have a lack of belief. I do not have belief. I am not believing. There is no belief in this house.

    That's not a belief system, that an absence of belief system, no matter how metaphysically you misuse the language.

    Get your head around this: Atheists don't have to start with "god does not exist". They merely reject the hypothesis "god does exist", often due to an abject lack of credible evidence and the ease with which people claiming that there is a god can be shown to be lying, ignorant, stupid, malicious or all of the above.