How to Promote Atheism With Almost No Effort

April 2, 2010

How to Promote Atheism With Almost No Effort

Labels: Activism, Promoting Atheism Comments

So you think atheism is worthwhile, do you? You'd like to see more people abandon religious delusion and embrace reality, huh? You'd even like to see atheism become the norm in your country, wouldn't you? Okay, prove it.

What if I told you that you could promote the atheist meme without even having to leave your home? What if you could do it from where you are sitting right now, without having to spend a dime, and with almost no effort whatsoever?

Whenever you run across atheist-oriented content on the Internet that you like, give it a thumbs up in StumbleUpon, submit it to Reddit or Digg, re-tweet it in Twitter, or promote it in whatever way you usually promote content you like. Simple, huh? But many of us are not even doing this on a regular basis.

Here's how I look at it: I am not paying for most of the stellar atheist content I enjoy each and every day, so the least I can do is to promote it. Why is this important?

Promoting good atheist content helps the author of the content by bringing more visitors to his/her page.
Promoting good atheist content helps all of us by making it easier for us to find some of the best material on the web.
Promoting good atheist content helps the atheist meme by showing advertisers that we are worth their attention.
Promoting good atheist content helps those just beginning to explore atheism.

To those of you who are reacting negatively because you think posts like this discourage people from taking more meaningful action by suggesting relatively trivial alternatives, I hear you. What I am suggesting here is not going to change the world. But it is a start. And since many people are not even doing what I describe here, this tells me that a start is still a step in the right direction.

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6 comments: to “ How to Promote Atheism With Almost No Effort ”

Anonymous

11:45 PM
Just hit like on this and got a Stumbleupon first. Cheers!
Anonymous

10:24 PM
So let me get this straight; you want us atheists to become like Jehovah's witnesses on the internet? No thanks.
Anonymous

9:44 PM
In the time it took to write that comment about Jehovah's Witnesses you could have "liked" this page and other atheists will know that they are not such a small part of society.

No Jesus, Know Peace
Anonymous

4:05 PM
umm so you want us to be like all other major religions and promote our way of thinking as the best? The one thing I hate about other religions is it is always forced down your throat, on the streets, in school and now you want us to do the same in the internet. People will come to their own conclusions about god and life, why force more of other peoples opinions down their throat?
Anonymous

12:41 AM
i already do this to some extent. just liking certain articles now and then, not tagging ang sharing in a somewhat in-your-face manner.

in the end didnt we all freethinkers convert ourselves though, not because it was forced upon us.
Andrew

12:46 PM
isn't the point of atheism a certain lack of content?
i think what you're referring to is "anti-religion content"