Wherefore this blog?

The answer is relatively simple. I am angry about the continued indoctrination of innocent children into various forms of superstition. I am angry about my own experience of being a brainwashed sky-god follower. Most importantly, I wanted a forum to add my voice to the many others trying to make this world a more rational place.

I describe myself variously as a Bright, and as a Radical Atheist. I wholeheartedly support the Brights movement, and yet, I still find that I need to resort to saying 'atheist' because it is a commonly understood term. 'Radical' gets added to that to indicate that while I am willing to explain my point of view, I am not open to reconversion. My current project, beyond this blog, is the expansion of my understanding of science, specifically evolutionary theory, and of the scholarship relating to the phenomenon that is belief.

It is still strange to me that of the 32 years I have been alive, the majority of them were spent either believing in, or fearing to leave, a religion. In the 19 years I spent being affiliated with churches, my mother and I attended the following kinds of churches: anglican, protestant, alliance, lutheran, baptist, and various fundamentalist and evangelical offshoots. As a child I took my faith very seriously, and was often singled out at school for being strange and preachy. My teenage years were spent at a Bretheren in Christ boarding school, and attending vineyard churches, as well as being part of the early congregation at the toronto airport christian fellowship.