There are hundreds, maybe thousands of excellent atheist web sites on the Internet. All provide important data and some are quite entertaining. But only to atheists.

I've always thought what a waste of time and effort it is preaching to the converted. That's a little unfair because I've obtained useful information from other people's web sites but I doubt very much if so much as one godist has been swayed by arguments presented on an atheist web site.

Certainly the people we most need to influence – young people – would click away in seconds flat. And the reason is, no matter how well put together and how informative they are, most atheist web sites are dull and formal and uninteresting to look at.

There are a few exceptions, for example, Normal Bob's web site and the 'Brick Testament', both of which will shortly feature in our Links section. And 'Missus Gumby' is a hoot, but that's about it. There may be others that I haven't found.

My idea is to create a web site that young people will find interesting. For that reason I'll be including outrageous stuff you wouldn't normally associate with atheism. Even some (cover your ears ladies and gentlemen) SEX!

I'll be using lotsa color and humor, javascripts, applets, music, sound effects and gifs, and all sorts of silly things normally avoided by 'serious' web builders. Call it Picadilly Circus, a dog's breakfast, a disgrace, whatever. You can criticise it all you like, this web site isn't for toffee-nosed aristocrats and intellectual snobs. Nor is is it for puritanical atheists who've thrown out the baby Jesus but are still wallowing in his dirty bath water.

As for me, I've been influenced by Thomas Paine and Robert G. Ingersoll, two blokes who defied the christian mob and who risked the hangman's noose to have their say. I must say that I am disappointed by the wimpiness of modern day atheists – they play it safe and communicate between themselves on weblogs and Yahoo groups but rarely do they employ the enormous power they have at their disposal – so fearful are they that they'll meet with disapproval.

In the Gold Nuggets section is an essay called 'Free' by Robert Ingersoll. If you read the last paragraph you'll understand where I'm coming from. That short essay influenced me like no other. Other influences have been J. Krishnamurti, Madalyn Murry O'Hair, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and dozens more bravehearts who risked public denigration and rejection to speak their minds and make a difference. My motivation in building this web site is to keep.... well, not only keep alive but to bring alive many of the dynamite quotes and essays which strike me as being crucial to the survival of this dwindling resource known as 'reason'.

I'm going to have fun building this web site – actually it's seven web sites and a book rolled into one – and I hope it will appeal to fun people, both atheists and godists alike. In particular I hope it appeals to the younger generation because unless we alert them to the danger of religion, and to the nuclear catastrophe that lies directly ahead, we're gonners.

The Futility of Religious FAITH