The Atheist Blogger

Digg-like site for atheists, “The Atheist Spot” has been holding a series of interviews with atheist bloggers. The latest ones have been all “foreigners” (i.e. not in the USA) like myself, and they show a great diversity of atheism across the world.

The Amiable Atheist tells of growing up a US baptist before discovering atheism, Db0 from Division by Zero tells of growing up in the highly religious country of Greece (99% Christian according to him) before moving to Germany to start a career in the tech industry, and Ramon Garcia from the Philippines who is married to a Christian wife and says that he “respect[s] Adrian Hayter the most” for having the balls the question an entire organisation (Atheist Nexus) despite not having many allies (I’m now blushing…).

All the interviews are very well thought out and great reads, and I would advise subscribing to the Atheist Spot Blog to read the rest (I’m sure there will be plenty more).

If you are an atheist blogger and want an interview, contact The Atheist Spot with your details!

Atheist Digg-like site The Atheist Spot has been sending questions out to atheist bloggers and posting the answers in a new series called “Get to know an atheist blogger”. It’s a great idea (I’m not just saying that because I got asked) because bloggers tend not to write direct references to their life all in one place. Those of us who do have “About” pages tend to write about the blog and not the author. By asking 9 simple questions, we can reveal more about ourselves as actual people.

The first atheist blogger is relatively new on the scene, but is publishing a book at the moment, and caused a minor controversy over a post calling for atheists to get out of the closet. Regular readers will remember that my response was the “re-emerge” from said closet, complete with a megaphone and sparkly jacket. He is of course, Craig A. James.

The second in line is one who everyone probably knows, although whose persona is shrouded in mystery (for good reason too). Nevertheless, vjack from Atheist Revolution is a very successful and popular blogger and a must read.

Look out for my answers to the questions on The Atheist Spot blog, but I’ll post a link when they are up anyway. Now if you’ll excuse me, my laptop has got itself stuck with an American keyboard, and I hate having to push Shift + ‘ to get a “