Introduction

Greetings!

Initially I planned this blog to be anonymous and under the guise of being written by a genuine atheist.  I have since decided to alter those plans.  I will be up front - I am a professed follower of the Christian faith.  Opposite of what you might expect, though, the purpose of this blog will be to write up responses and opinions of different events, philosophies, and other items from the viewpoint of an atheist.  I genuinely mean it when I say that the atheistic position is the worldview that garners the most respect from me after Christianity/Judaism. 

The only problem I have is that many of the atheists I know or have seen through media do not generally follow through on the principals of atheism.  The atheist worldview is a dark one - it is not one of hope and redemption, miracles or everlasting life, yet too often atheists live a life as though it were.  With that in mind, I hope to accurately portray a true atheist response.

To clarify what worldview I will be speaking from here are the following 'truths' I will follow:

1. There is no supreme being in the universe. All actions and events we see result from causality dating back to the first event, namely the Big Bang or other suitable 'beginnings' story. 

2. Stemming from number one, all life on Earth as we know it is a byproduct of the evolutionary process. As the universe itself is a series of reactions from the initial action, so too is life a series of response from the initial action.

All further opinions and writings will be stemmed from these two basic premises which, to my knowledge, for the basis of atheism.

I am trying to keep the worldview part relatively straightforward.  Of course I realize there's more to it than just those two tennants but I think they more or less sum it up.