I’ve decided to put MerryAtheist blog in suspended animation for the time being. I’m not updating it frequently enough and don’t have enough time to give it the attention it deserves. This will be my final post (unless I change my mind and revive it someday).
Truth be told, my interests have moved on from religion in the last few months. Sure, it was exciting to talk about all this stuff when my loss of faith was fresh, and it was fun to look back at the strange world I left behind – holding it up to rational critique and frequent mockery (Good times. Good times.) But I’m not the type of person that wishes to spend my life looking backward, and the clear fact is religion, belief, God, and Jesus are now distant images fading rapidly away into irrelevance in the rear-view mirror of my life.
My days are too full to dwell on the irrational and superstitious. I have no need or desire to waste much time on them anymore, having wasted a significant portion of my 47 years already in the fruitless pursuit of such illusions.
I will maintain and (hopefully - time permitting) expand the MerryAtheist site to include content I developed in this blog as well as other topics that seem fitting in the context of my escape from religious superstition.
Originally, the whole site was meant to be a public document of that journey, but the desire to remain topical drove me to devote too much of my limited time resources to the blog; as a result, the overall site languished.
I still think the original goal of this site is a worthy cause; I still think my journey from Catholicism to atheism is relevant, if only as a resource for others in similar straits. One day I hope it will become a compelling account of the flaws and irrationality of theism in general and Catholicism in particular, as I have experienced them.
So this is goodbye for now.
It’s been a fun ride so far, and I can hardly wait to see what tomorrow brings.

