First Post: Religion?

Where does one begin a blog? I’ve started a few others in the past, but always abandoned them after a few posts because I find blogging to be annoyingly presumptive; why would anyone care what some random stranger has to say? This time my motivation is different: I do not intend to ramble on about my inane day-to-day activities, but rather to jot down random thoughts and, I hope, to sort through and sharpen my own beliefs. This “blog” is for me. If somebody else stumbles upon it and wants to comment, that’s cool. If nobody ever finds this place, that’s cool, too.

That said, I suppose religious identification is as good a place to start as any. I currently define myself as…

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Deleted. What was written here was annoyingly convoluted. It seems I still haven’t settled on a comfortable description of my views on religion. What I am sure of is that the need for such terminology irritates me. For now, I’ll simply state that I am godless. This post will be updated if/when I come up with a concise term that doesn’t require clarification, as both atheist and agnostic do.

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So there it is: my first post is in the can. As to precisely how and why I arrived at my current religious self-identity, that will have to wait for another post.