The purpose of this site is to promote logical thinking instead of faith, truth instead of myth, and ethics instead of sin. To contact the author of this website with feedback or questions, please send an email to Greg Marsh at gm_us@yahoo.com.
Growing up, I attended a Baptist church for one year, mainly for social reasons and to be with friends. I remember the first day the Sunday school teacher told me that people who do not worship Jesus would burn in hell. I made no comment aloud, but I was thinking, "This guy talking about burning people is evil, or psychotic, or both." About a year later, I heard a sermon in youth group about how it didn't matter if you were good or bad. You just had to worship Jesus in order to avoid burning forever in hell. I felt that these threats were a reason not to support or associate with the organization, and never returned to that church.
After college, I attended a community church with friends. This church had much better public speakers, plays, and music than the Baptist church. I casually attended for a few years, mainly for social reasons, all the time with no supernatural beliefs. During a discussion, a girl from the church asked if I was a Christian. This was the first time anyone had asked. I replied, "No." During further questioning, I explained that I had no supernatural beliefs and that I attended because much of the service seemed geared toward the secular. She politely told me that I was going to burn in hell. Driving home, I realized this was ludicrous and that I was wasting my time at church.
During this time, I was becoming more and more concerned about the religious and political situation in the United States. In 2004, I started searching for non-religious information on the Internet. I found very good atheist, secular humanist and biblical critique websites, but I found a problem with information overload and tying the information together, or not being able to see the forest for the trees. I started this website to highlight basic information in easy-to-read format and provide links to additional resources. I found that some search keywords (including "apostasy," "religious debate" and "ethics") were under- or unrepresented, so I expanded the website as needed to fill in the cracks.
This website was started Sept. 28, 2004, and the first search engine submissions were made in the middle of December 2004. The number of visitors during 2005 was 22,000, and in 2006 the number of visitors increased to 42,000.
I am now involved in the ethical non-religious community, including religious radio debate and support of other organizations, Meetups, and have met many people devoted to this topic.
