Me, my blog & I.

By way of introduction, and full disclosure, I thought I’d tell a bit about myself and what I think I’m doing here. 

Me...

Philosophically agnostic, but atheist by conviction. That is, I don’t think the concept of god(s) are the kind of ideas that have the empirical or logical consequences that allow them to be proved or disproved. That said - Occam’s razor to my throat – what do I think? Well, I’d beg to differ with the theist  – definitely no personal god for me. I’d have different, but definite, issues with the deist too – no hands-offy but existentially reassuring deity either. I’d have a bone to pick those of a dharmic persuasion too, even if notions of what supernature means exactly gets difficult when you’re not talking about a specific entity but about systems. In short, I find the world to be an amazing place, with many a phenomenon to tickle my sense of the numinous – not only stranger than we imagine but probably stranger than we can imagine. But the sense I get is that the whole caboodle isn’t for/by/because of us.  As the man (probably never) said:  I had no need of that hypothesis. 

My Blog...

If you are anything like me, you a have a fair idea of what you think and, while you hope you are open to new ideas, yet another argument about the existence of god is kryptonite to your motivation as a searcher-after-truth(s). When I became a man, I put away childish things – why & how people believe has become much more interesting than can I score another point in this argument we’ve all had a 1000 times.

What (I hope) it is:

                A wee chronicle of my experiences as an atheist in religious contexts and consuming religious media, as a person with a deep interest in religion as a phenomenon but with an opposing but hopefully not (too) antagonizing point of view. This may include my experiences at religious observances and events, my reaction to current affairs in the religious vein and my opinions on the books and articles I may come across in my search of searches. 

And what (I hope) it is not:

                A rant, a manifesto, or another tired tread over the same arguments we’ve all heard before. I won’t try to keep my politics – which lean to the secular – or my philosophy out of this, but I will try to be even-handed with The Opposition, and as novel as I can be in my approach.

And I...

Why anonymity? Dramatic, much? Basically I don’t want the experiences I’m hoping to chronicle to be altered by people being aware I might write about them. That said, onward ho…