No names

I've set up this blog mainly to give my reactions to various religious issues without using my real name.

I'm an atheist, but my family are members of a strict Christian religion that practices shunning. If they found out that I no longer shared their religious beliefs they would be forced to shun me for apostasy.

What's ironic is that they need me more than I need them. My parents are not in great health, and I have other family members with special needs. I know they would not readily choose to shun me, given the choice, but such is the power of religion--they wouldn't have a choice. Religion corrupts things like family bonds and, often, simple human decency. My family would not want to shun me, but they would do what they're told, because to do otherwise is to invite God's eternal wrath.

Something tells me I'm going to make a bonehead mistake and leave traces of my identity somewhere in this blog. I recently read about a big bruhaha when a blogger created another account to reference and praise himself, but his name was in the HTML code of the sock puppet. Hopefully I don't do something so abysmally stupid.