But such a service, held under atheist auspices, could not very well attack a deity who is, under the Association's very house rules, nonexistent.
This puts President Hoover in a spot since they are attacking a deity, which according to their house rules, is nonexistent.
Wong eventually decided to take down an Orkut group dedicated to attacking Shivaji, revered as a deity by the Shiv Sena Party, because it violated Orkut terms of service by criticizing a religion, but she decided not to take down another group because it merely criticized a political party.
The comedian's attack on the notion of a deity will be heard on an Irish religious affairs programme on Sunday night.
At the time of the attack, Mr. Joyu said Aum members regarded Mr. Asahara as a deity, were anticipating Armageddon and obeyed the group's leadership without question.
The provocateur entertainer and avowed atheist was up to his truth-through-needling ways on Twitter after the attack, offering, "Blasphemy: A law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt").
What he actually did was to subject religion to a barrage of scorn and ridicule, attacking it on the rational improbability -- as he sees it -- that a deity could possibly exist.
The cubs executed enough head butts, body slams and stealth-attack wrestling moves to get them an audition for "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity".
At the Reason Rally, crowds cheered as he declared that the Sept. 11 attacks played a critical role in blasting away his lingering belief in any sort of deity.
Changing his name to Akhenaten, he touted the previously obscure sun deity Aten as the supreme deity, suppressed the worship of most other deities, and attacked the power of the temple that had become dominated by the priests of Amun in Thebes, whom he saw as corrupt.
In its most rigorous aspect, astrology postulates a totally mechanistic universe, denying to the deity the possibility of intervention and to man that of free will; as such, it was vigorously attacked by orthodox Christianity and Islam.
