The Atheist Blogger
Welcome to the “The Atheist Blogger”, a weblog devoted to atheism and anti-theism. My name is Adrian Hayter, and I am the “atheist blogger” who will be writing the majority of articles on the site. In the future, and if the blog is successful, I may allow others to contribute to the blog, but for now it’ll just be me.
Now for the reason I created this blog. On 13th January 2008, I was trying to update my personal blog but was at a loss for content. After a while, I decided to cheat and copied a long list of atheist quotes from my facebook profile. After a few minutes of formatting, I published the post, and submitted it to StumbleUpon, and that - I thought - was that.
A few weeks later I signed back into my blog and found that quite a few other blogs had commented on my post, the majority of them positive. I checked my blog statistics, and found that over 10,000 hits had been registered on the permalink alone. I went back to the StumbleUpon review page, and to my surprise I found a fair few people had thumbed the page up, and added reviews saying the quotes were a great collection. I then realised that I had commenting turned off on my blog, and wondered what would happen if I turned it back on again, so I did.
On the 8th February, nearly a month after I had written the post, a comment was registered on the blog, and then another, and another. I went back to the StumbleUpon listing for the site, and found that over 50 people had submitted reviews, with many more people thumbing the page up. This may not sound like that many, but for a blogger who was quite new to the whole experience, it was thrilling, knowing that my blog was being read by hundreds of people.
And so we come to today, the 11th February, only 3 days after the entire thing took off, but when I realised that there were more people out there interested in atheism than I had previously thought. Currently there are 55 reviews of the blog on StumbleUpon, and it is listed as 5th on the featured sites about atheists. The thing is, although I am proud of my atheism and would gladly talk about it, I didn’t want to use my personal blog to do it on. I would rather use that for blogging about my life and things that happen in it, keeping the a neutral tone as it were. So I went to godaddy.com, and found that, quite remarkably, the domains “atheistblogger.com” and “theatheistblogger.com” were available. I bought them both, and used the latter as a domain alias to the first.
This site will allow me to talk exclusively about subjects relating to atheism and anti-theism, and should prove an insightful experience for anyone reading. The only thing I have left to do is say thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy the blog!
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Bookmarked, and it will be fed to my iGoogle page. :)
Ryan Ashbrook
11 Feb 08 at 11:03 pm (GMT)
Nice work, Adrian! I know exactly how you feel regarding a personal blog focusing too much on our proud atheism. I started the fledgeling community linked above just to have a place to talk about this stuff (and, to be honest, to post funny photos that would offend most of my mainstream audience). :)
topherchris
17 Feb 08 at 12:37 pm (GMT)
Thanks Adrian! The list of quotes is well worth keeping and passing around :-)
I will be interested to see what you come up with. Much has been said by smart people to try to stop the tide of religious zealotry. It still ebbs and flows.
I see literacy as a key weapon against the religious nuts - even if people only use it to read their holy books, at least some of them will become critical enough to ask questions.
Sue W
18 Feb 08 at 5:38 pm (GMT)
Atheist blogs are fun :) I have about 26 posts since I started on the 8th of feb… But I don’t have a job so I have more time to post.
I do have a fun story I wrote up though, “The IDiots New Clothes” it’s probably full of errors since I did it in one go….
http://healyhatman.blogspot.com/2008/02/idiots-new-clothes.html
But I’m still proud of its anti-IntelligentDesign-ness
Healyhatman
19 Feb 08 at 10:32 pm (GMT)
I’m a Christian and my blogs are on the opposite side of the fence. I hope we can learn from each other in our journey toward truth. I hope, like me, you like to follow the truth wherever it leads.
Karla
7 May 08 at 1:32 am (GMT)
easy to remember site,
when I was small without any help or literature I began to first see how usefull religion could be as a first government and overtime became more and more convinced that god is not the answhere.
when I turned around 16-18 I for the first time actually learned what atheism means but at that point I didn’t have real access to books and no access to the internet, The recruitment led me to churches and sinogogs, they tried hard, but couldn’t prove with facts, facts that lead to the root of all questions.
maybe at 19 - 20 I began to see that people around me also on their own shared the same idea’s… it was amazing reading those quotes, many of them brought back memories from way back.
thanks again,
Igor
Igor
26 Aug 08 at 2:07 am (GMT)