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!