My name is Lloyd. I'm your friendly local atheist. Atheists get accused of sorts of weird things by those who ought to know better but can't. Atheism is not a philosophy, creed, or set of beliefs, but atheists do have opinions about right and wrong, good and evil, even spirituality and the meaning of life, about which we argue with each other. While naively opinionated people attribute them all to atheism, they must not realize the full array of doctrines and philosophies supported by the wide variety of atheists in any society. When they demean us with slogans such as "Fall for atheism and you'll fall for anything," I suppose they are inferring that we could actually become Christians someday. To tell the truth, though, atheism is a climb and not a fall. You'd have to become an atheist to understand that, I suppose, and the reason it seems so wrong might be because you are looking down to find it, and not up.

Every neighborhood needs a guy like me to make sure the right questions get asked, and that nobody takes up the newest quackery to come along only to get hurt from discovering what they got into that they should have stayed away from. Yeah, that's right, atheists are good for something that has to do with fighting off the forces of evil. I'll bet you're already glad you came here and discovered that. Just wait'll you've been here a while!

You will find this web site to be a prime example of why atheism is NOT an organized system of thought shared by a group of people called 'atheists'. We are mainly individualists who share only one trait in common, that we do not believe the stories others tell us about their gods, their deities, their supernaturalized hosts of entities claimed to be in charge of all existence, which they own in some stories, which they created and now demean in others.

The religious write to accuse us of all sorts of evils, but overlook another trait we often share when doing so: We are a generally friendly lot, though outspoken and as opinionated as any religionist, and our patience wears thin when a long line of the religious approach us as though each must be the first to accost us with what must surely be the ultimate answer to a riddle they presuppose us to represent, or about which they presuppose us to be ignorant.

Sure, we are heretics, the lot of us; we are heretics to each other as much and in as many ways as we are to the religious (who also share that trait with us, but among their own lot). We also share an indomitable kind of curiosity; it is that, more than anything, that gets us into trouble with religious influences, and the religiously influenced. We cannot be satisfied with just everybody's say-so about anything. We have to know, to see for ourselves, to argue for what we have seen and the right to share it with others. It is from that trait that science rose out of religion and went its merry way on a path of its own, and changed the world forever, or for until religions can find some way to subdue it.

It is mainly thanks to science that most of us are alive nowadays, in this over-populated world. If religions accomplish the subjection of science to their creeds and so render it ineffective, the result will be massive human death from which disease will spread to maim the major portion of those who survived— that is if, while expecting their gods to protect them, they do not turn the inventions of technology into weapons of massive annihilation that will wipe Earth's life forms into oblivion and end life's now-thriving existence on this planet.

That is what I, your friendly local atheist, work to protect you from by alerting you to the possibilities and their causes, and their causes' causes, and to show you how to immunize yourself against them all.