Why blog?

After visiting my blog, some people asked me. "Accepted, you don't believe in god. But why do you have to blog about it? Why don't you keep your believes/ideas to yourself? Why do you have to be so detailed about your experiences?". Although I am not exactly sure what it means, a person even used the term an "open book".

Some of the reasons why I blog about atheism:

* There are so many people out there for whom god, religion, rituals, etc simply doesn't make any sense. While some of them are not sure, some of them are, but, either think that there is something wrong with them or are afraid to tell their parents, relatives, etc and are afraid of the consequences. I have gone through this myself and I know difficult it can be. Its good that I found people whom I could talk to, about this and take their help. Technology also helped me a lot. Such people need help and the best way is to have a discussion or a talk or reading about others' experiences. If sharing my experiences can help them, I'm glad to do that.

* Whenever i read about experiences of other atheists, agnostics, etc on the internet, I could hardly find an indian who had written about his/her experiences. So I thought why not write a blog about my own.

* By using blogs, people can join in the discussion anonymously if they wanted to. Its very difficult to get people to talk on such tabooed topics. It has been an interesting experience so far.

* I want people to start thinking, if they haven't.