The Atheist Blogger

The latest Carnival of the Godless is up at Radical Atheist, so go check it out! It’s a great carnival, and has two great reviews of the new book “The evolution of God” which were very informative.

Remember to submit something to the next carnival, or put your own blog forward for the prestigious job of hosting the carnival!

As a side note, I’ve been meaning to update this blog a lot more often, but every time I’ve sat down to write a post, something else has barged in the way, whether it be important emails I have to answer, work that has to be done, or (most recently) a breach of my PayPal account which almost cost me $300 I don’t have. Nevertheless, I’m finally emerging from the flow of “more-important-than-blogging” things, and there will be a few articles up this week on my adventures in Egypt, and my delving into Astrology!

Given that Twitter is a far better (and quicker) way of getting my thoughts out, if you miss me you can always follow my thoughts there. My account is @ah8r.

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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