I have launched a news website called Atheism Daily to publish the following kinds of content:
- Atheism News – Breaking developments affecting secular communities, legal battles over church-state separation, education policy, and science advocacy.
- Editorials & Opinion – Informed analysis from secular authors, philosophers, and activists on social, political, and cultural trends.
- Research & Investigation – Data-driven reports and academic summaries related to atheism, demographics, religious disaffiliation, and humanist thought.
- Secular Lifestyle & Culture – Articles that explore living morally without religion, raising secular children, and navigating society as an Atheist.
The reason why I have decided to start this new website is quite simple: the online Atheism community (to include not only popular online social media groups on Facebook and reddit, but also online magazines and organization blogs) has become flooded with extreme far left political views. There is pretty much no one out there publishing news about Atheism from a more moderate political point of view. This is creating the inaccurate perception that Atheism is itself a far left political ideology, when it’s actually not an inherently political position.
This is not a new misunderstanding, but it is one that I have decided needs something done about it. It’s easy to understand how the perception of Atheism as a far left ideology came about: Atheism itself, as in the rejection of belief in gods, does not lead to Marxism. Rather it is that many people who identify as Atheist are also Marxists and have spent decades pushing Marxist ideologies in Atheist communities with little meaningful opposition. This is unfortunately something that originated decades ago with The League of Militant Godless in the USSR, which inspired Madalyn Murray to create the American Atheists organization as an American version of it. So decades of the most prominent Atheism activism has been intertwined with Marxism. It is therefore easy to understand how the perception came about.
The reason groups like Atheists for Liberty (which I am a member of) are novel is because they are saying it is actually classical liberal values that permits Atheism in the USA, not Marxism. The movement for more moderate Atheism is growing, but we have decades of Marxist propaganda to overcome as all of the most well funded and leading ‘Atheist’ groups have become highly political leftist groups.
As there seems to be no one else out there taking a moderate approach to discussing Atheism related news topics, I decided to create Atheism Daily to do just that. This is bound to get me criticism and hate from the vocal toxic elements of the online Atheism community, but that’s nothing new for me.
