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I do like it when people comment. It’s good. It makes me feel like I’m not alone in the barren wilderness that is the Internet. So, in order to precipitate a bit of discussion, here’s a hypothetical question for you:

Which is better, believing in God, but rejecting Christianity, or not believing in God, but attempting to follow Christianity?

Let me know what you think, I’ll post my own answer in a couple of days.

Note: The question is mostly aimed at Christian Theists, however, if you don’t fit into that category, and want to throw your two cents in, I’d still love to hear from you

So you know, I do still have the old entries, so if anyone remembers something I wrote about, and wants me to look it up, I might be able to arrange it.

In my previous post, I said it would be nice if what you learned about me was accurate. But I do want to clarify that; I don’t want to blog so that people can just learn about me - if you are going to learn about me, I’d like it to be accurate, but learning about me isn’t (i hope) the primary purpose. I’m really not that important in the scheme of things. If you want to learn about someone important, go read a biography.

I’ve come across some ideas that I think are important, so I’d like to blog about them. And I’d love to discuss them with you, because you’ve probably come across some important ideas too. So that’s my rationale for blogging. So that I can learn, and so that you can learn. Then we’ll hopefully grow, and be better people, and so we can go save the world. Hurrah!

No doubt some of you will be wondering, why has Nathan abandoned all his hard work and started a new blog? Basically, it was messy.

It was messy in the sense that the technical side of the blog was messy - I’d made a lot of customizations, and hadn’t really tidied them up, I hadn’t updated to the latest versions of wordpress, the links were all out of date - it was a bit of a mish mash, and just not fun to blog with anymore.

More importantly, the content of the blog was messy. It lacked direction. It started off as a personal journal that was meant to enable me to talk about things with the world, and hopefully help me and others grow. Back then I had a higher level of self-disclosure than I would now, which I wouldn’t be comfortable with now. Ironically, as time went on, there was a bit of a reaction to the earlier self-disclosure, which meant my blogging was quite closed, which almost became a bit dishonest? Not that I was lying or misleading, but it felt like I was presenting a Nathan that was one-sided, and didn’t feel like me. My blog had lost it’s direction, and felt imbalanced.

For this blog, I’m looking for the middle ground. I don’t want to go exposing my innermost secrets to the world, but I do want to be honest, and take ownership of what I write. So, when you read this blog, you aren’t going to learn any dark secrets about me. But hopefully what you learn about me will be accurate.

Welcome to my brand new blog!

I’m redoing everything from scratch, so bear with me as I sort things out. Thankfully wordpress is very easy to install and use, so it should all be relatively painless.

Hopefully I’ll resume (begin?) regular blogging soon.

Nathan