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Kieran Bennett has been possessed by the Holy Spirit…or possibly a Christian fundamentalist. Whichever it turns out to be, the latest Carnival of the Godless is one of the most weird things I have ever read. If I had a hat I’d tip it to Kieran for his creativity. Now you’ve had your fun Kieran, go relax…you crazy aussie you.

The 96th Carnival of the Godless is over at Sean the Blogonaut. He has introduced a new “Top 5 Must Reads” for people with very little time which is a great idea. Although I didn’t make it into that group, my post about Christianity and Sexuality did make it in to the rest.

I discovered the Carnival of the Godless a few months back as a relatively new guy in the atheist blogosphere, so I thought I’d approach my first submission gently and managed to “ease” in 101 Atheist Quotes before the deadline. When the COTG was published my article got about 2000 hits a day for a whole week and I quickly realized the power of blog carnivals in getting work noticed.

It seemed appropriate to give something back to the blogosphere and the carnival, so when pleas went out for new hosts, I was one of the first to step up and offer my services. I want to say I planned ahead but I’m not a liar (although Ray Comfort would probably disagree), and I’m currently stuck writing an introduction to the carnival at 23:00 on the 5th July. It’s probably already gone on too long and everyone who has stuck with it so far would most likely want to skip to the actual articles (you are forgiven if you do so).

Given that I’ll probably still be finishing off this post at 2AM, I’m officially warning all hosts after myself:

For the sake of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, don’t leave it to the last minute!

With my email inbox full of interesting articles, there is only one thing left on the agenda. Please fasten your metaphorical seat-belts, sit back, and enjoy the carnival!

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Earthman’s Notebook is hosting the 94th Carnival of the Godless and it is jam-packed full of interesting articles. It proves that the carnival is still popular for content, but not so much for hosts.

After a plea for more hosting blogs to come forward, a few emerged (including myself in two weeks time!), but yet again the Carnival is facing extinction. After this blog hosts the carnival it will be over at Letters from a broad, but unless anyone else steps up it will stop before it reaches issue 100.

The current Carnival of the Godless had 40 articles in it, and I suspect many more were sent and rejected for various reasons. It is sad to see such great enthusiasm to get your work seen and yet hardly any to help the work of others. The atheist blogging community stands at at least 708 by The Atheist Blogroll’s count, so I urge any new bloggers to accept the challenge and put your blog up as a host. Even if you have hosted the carnival once before, I’m sure nobody will mind!

The Carnival of the Godless is a great way to read new blogs, share opinions, and get your site noticed in the blogging community. There is literally no reason you shouldn’t do it.

If you are interested, contact Brent Rasmussen immediately!