American Atheists leaders receive death threats serious enough to warrant police attention

[Ian David]

American Atheists leaders receive death threats serious enough to warrant police attention

The American Atheists posted on its Facebook fan page yesterday that it had received death threats against its President, Dave Silverman, and Communications Director, Blair Scott. Police were notified and are reportedly taking the threats seriously. "Religion makes some people too crazy," the post notes.

Email and voice mail threats were made about torture, kidnapping, and shooting.

American Atheists posted a portion of the email with an explanation:

"the minute you {Blair} step to speake, a 30 30 round will be put in your head, and then you will meet the satan and demons of hell that you do not believe in……………..dave however, will be taken and tortured for weeks till he crys out for 'god' to save him"

From the voice mail:

"If you {Blair} or Dave ever email me again, I will hunt you down like a bloodhound, tie you to a tree and torture you for weeks… damn f*ing {edited} atheists…"

He was getting email because he signed up on our web page as a user in order to stalk Dave and Blair. He has posted on their online videos, etc.

The voice mail can be heard here.

More:
http://www.goddiscussion.com/96062/american-atheists-leaders-receive-death-threats-serious-enough-to-warrant-police-attention/


More TeaTerror.

See also:

http://tinyurl.com/TeaTerror
http://tinyurl.com/TeaTerror2

[cbayer]

1. I hope that they find the person (people?) doing this.

Sounds eerily like the member that signs up here to send threatening PM's to people.

Scary people.

[backscatter712]

2. We atheists have learned not to expect anything less from the religion of peace... n/t

[2ndAmForComputers]

11. You surely mean religionS.

[cbayer]

15. I have no idea what you are talking about.

[Scuba]

3. And this person thinks that god loves him?

[arcane1]

4. How Christ-like of them

[skepticscott]

5. Wonder if we'll be hearing from

all the same posters who got their shorts in a knot over Dan Savage calling a few high school students "pansy asses" about this. Because goodness knows, calling people names for making a show of their bigotry is pretty much on a par with threatening to murder and torture people who undermine your precious beliefs.

I'm guessing a big no.

[Ian David]

6. ...

[laconicsax]

9. C'mon, skepticscott.

Why can't you acknowledge all the positive things religious people do and ignore the rest? I don't think you're being very thoughtful.

[cleanhippie]

13. No, because this is just a mentally ill person, savage was being a bully.

Sheesh, get with it.

[ck4829]

7. Fox News will probably bill this as 'religious expression'

It's what they did when people vandalized their billboards.

[laconicsax]

8. But remember: Atheists are the militant ones.

After all, atheists have the unmitigated gall to post jokes and arguments on the internet, and a few of us pay for billboards.

[Thats my opinion]

10. Rotten, shameful, inexcusable and contrary to all that is decent. nt

[sakabatou]

12. Feel that Christian love!

[dmallind]

14. Come on - there are bad apples in every crate

I mean there are tons of examples of atheists - the militant type natch - threatening to torture Christians because of their ontological views. Tons of 'em I say. Like...............ermm.......