My New Blog

This blog, with my random rambles and rants, is not going anywhere, but I have created a new blog as well. Perhaps I don't think I'm busy enough or maybe I subconsciously long to be a plate-spinner in a traveling carnival and instead satisfy the urge with multiple hobbies and projects.

Actually, I've started my new blog because it is a subject that is important to me and seems to be underrepresented in our society. The subject, and title, of my new blog is Moral Secularism.

Secularism refers to the idea that government and society should be based on a structure free of religion. Secularism does not necessarily argue against religion, only against religion in government and public society (such as public schools).

In general, secularists believe in the separation of church and state and in keeping religion out of public schools-- particularly in keeping faith (e.g. Creationism, Intelligent Design) separate from science (e.g. Evolution, Astronomy, Paleontology, Geology, etc.).

Moral secularism becomes a subject when some religions preach that it is not possible for a secularist to also be moral or ethical. They teach that morality comes from God and therefore, those who do not believe cannot be moral. It also is behind the common myth that atheists must be sinful, immoral people. In reality, crimes are committed by both religious and non-religious people, just as churchgoers and atheists alike can be ethical, caring citizens.

If you'd like to learn more, visit my new blog: Moral Secularism.