It might have been deleted by whoever posted it, auto-deleted if enough people flagged it, or removed by an admin (pg, others?). I have no way of knowing, but it doesn't seem likely that it was flagged off by the community. (Even blatant spam often takes a long time to get flagged; good-faith posts don't generally seem to attract enough flags before they reach the upvote threshold and become immune.)
The article is clearly theistic. It is also long, people read the first quote and flagged it thinking you might be trying to introduce them to a theistic notion of some sort. Atheists on the internet are like that - if they weren't they'd be agnostic.
It clearly was secular humanist and not theistic at all, you just did a really good job of making the analogy to "regular" religions.
I give broad latitude for HN submissions particularly so I can pick up pieces like this. It reminded me of all the times great works of art have made me transcend the human experience. What a feeling! Wow!
I think the flagging system is terribly broken. You got whacked because of the word "God", plain and simple.
I did a 3-part series this summer "Does God Exist?" that examined the proofs for and against the existence of some sort of thing beyond our understanding. I didn't espouse a particular religious view (I really don't have any) and just tried to logically look at the debate from the point of view of being intellectually curious.
Every one of them were flagged. But I submitted all three anyway.
Keep up the good work and don't let the bastards get you down!
I wrote the article (noticed it was posted here because my site suddenly started getting loads of hits); by the time I saw it it was deleted.
I don't want to say if it was appropriate for HN or not, but can a moderator at least explain why it was deleted? I'm curious what in the article violated guidelines.
I talk with God. the computer nerd community is militant atheists. I used to be, until I discovered God. I don't feel that obligated to share -- God likes hiding, doesn't He? You know the story of Exodus? Nasty shit happened and the Phareo still didn't listen. I don't expect anything that dramatic by way of convincing people, so it seems hopeless.
On this site, it was asked, "What do you take on faith?" I said relativity. Someone can prove it, but not I. God was not found by philosophy, but by mysticism -- empiracle evidence.
I can share God's words, but it seems pointless.
God says...
predict evident fallacies undertake shady descend Not our
simply fornications
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 41.7 ms ] threadIt might have been deleted by whoever posted it, auto-deleted if enough people flagged it, or removed by an admin (pg, others?). I have no way of knowing, but it doesn't seem likely that it was flagged off by the community. (Even blatant spam often takes a long time to get flagged; good-faith posts don't generally seem to attract enough flags before they reach the upvote threshold and become immune.)
Possibly it's the title, because Hacker News has a no-religious-stories clause, but the article itself isn't remotely religious.
I give broad latitude for HN submissions particularly so I can pick up pieces like this. It reminded me of all the times great works of art have made me transcend the human experience. What a feeling! Wow!
I think the flagging system is terribly broken. You got whacked because of the word "God", plain and simple.
I did a 3-part series this summer "Does God Exist?" that examined the proofs for and against the existence of some sort of thing beyond our understanding. I didn't espouse a particular religious view (I really don't have any) and just tried to logically look at the debate from the point of view of being intellectually curious.
Every one of them were flagged. But I submitted all three anyway.
Keep up the good work and don't let the bastards get you down!
I don't want to say if it was appropriate for HN or not, but can a moderator at least explain why it was deleted? I'm curious what in the article violated guidelines.
Read the article, not just the title damnit.
On this site, it was asked, "What do you take on faith?" I said relativity. Someone can prove it, but not I. God was not found by philosophy, but by mysticism -- empiracle evidence.
I can share God's words, but it seems pointless.
God says... predict evident fallacies undertake shady descend Not our simply fornications