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.
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