Hello.
Right, firstly I am not a natural blogger. In fact my spellcheck hasn’t even got the word ‘blog’ or ‘blogger’ in it… (although I have just discovered it doesn’t have the word ‘spellcheck’ in it either… Note to self: get better spillcheck…)
Start again.
Unaccustomed as I am to public blogging, the idea for this has been bounding round my head for a while now, and should allow a voice for myself, my fellow collaborator, and with any luck, some of you, to shout out about a topic which at times worries, frightens, comforts, angers, or justifies some or all of us at some point. Welcome to the non-believers take on Christianity.
It is worth saying at the outset what this blog is not. It is definitely not a mindless and somewhat bigoted dismissal of Christian folk – there’s plenty of them around already; indeed the biggest non-believing group on Facebook is called simply ‘Fuck Christianity’ which while admirably getting to the heart of the matter, does seem to be a little brief in its thinking… Mindless insults are definitely not the point. Nor is this blog, particularly, only aimed at Christianity – many of the things we want to talk about could equally be applied to other dogmatic religions, belief systems and social attitudes. The reason we stick to Christianity in this blog as the main case in point – is quite simply because we know much more about it than we do about say, the Muslim faith. Hopefully we can learn.
The other thing this blog isn’t is particularly up itself – most of what we say will be personal opinion, based on experiences and bits of reading and thinking of our own, and not lengthy well thought out philosophical discourse. We are quite happy to be wrong – and probably won’t agree with each other on a fair bit of what we say. The point is of course; the debate. And this brings me to the final thing this blog isn’t – and that’s soft. We’re not going to be afraid about putting across strong opinions, even playing devil’s advocate – because of course the point is the reaction to it. It is only an opinion – which hopefully gets people to engage with it.
OK, so what is it then?!
Well, the main part will be us writing about some of the issues which most interest, frighten or concern us with regards to the Christian faith, fundamentalism, and belief in monotheistic doctrine. The topics we’ll cover could include anything from the nature of fundamental truths to the hypocrisy of vicars, from musings on the spiritual to what really pisses us off about church. We’ll also try and post a few links to relevant things, and perhaps most importantly of all, invite some discussion and comment where hopefully you can tell us what you think about all of this…
So that’ll be on the main blog part of the site – next to it on that tab thing up there – is ‘About Us’ which will be all about… um… yeah, and next to that is ‘Brazen Beliefs’. This is a bit which we’ll put together as we go along, but will start to list some of the simple principles that govern this blog – and non-believers in general. Got any suggestions? Let us know. Finally there’ll be a gallery where any particularly relevant, interesting or ludicrously funny pics we come across will go.
So, that’s about it for now. What this blog is will doubtless become clearer as we write it (especially to us) – and I’ll shortly update the About Us page which may make it a little clearer where we’re coming from… For now I’ll say watch this space, and if anyone is reading this why not send us a suggestion for what sort of thing might interest you? You can follow updates, links and whatnot at the only OFFICIAL Brazen Beyond Belief Twitter account @beyondbelieving.
For now, much obliged…
Dx
