I’ve finally worked my way through all the data collected in my 3 Questions Survey, and found question 3 to be the most interesting and enlightening of them. the question was: “What are the political and social ramifications of atheism, skepticism or agnosticism? Should these movements embrace political ideas that are outside of the description of atheism, skepticism or agnosticism?” I asked this question specifically as it...

The second question I asked in my 3 Questions survey was: Why is it important to be vocal as an atheist, skeptic or agnostic (if at all)? As with Question 1, I tried to leave this as open ended as possible to try to get a larger slice of the spectrum of ideas and opinions out there. If a person did not think that being vocal was an important thing for an atheist/skeptic/agnostic, the question allowed for this. The overwhelming majority...

Here is the first part in my three part analysis of the responses to my 3 Questions project survey. The first question I asked was: How does your worldview, (atheism, skepticism or agnosticism, whichever is applicable to you), influence your life? The answers varied greatly, from “not at all” to “greatly”, but these fell into several categories: 1. Atheism/agnosticism/skepticism has no influence on my worldview,...

This morning I closed the 3 Questions survey. Thank you to all who participated. Also, I’d like to thank Stephanie Zvan from Freethought Blogs who posted an article promoting my survey, which resulted in 100+ more respondents than I would have had otherwise. Now comes the arduous task of sorting through the data, but before I do, here are some preliminary statistics from the survey. The survey was open for 3 weeks, and represents 328...

For those who don’t know, the 3 Questions project aims to gather together various voices from the atheist, skeptic and agnostic communities in an effort to have these voices heard. So often we only hear the voices of those who are seen to be in positions of power, those who have blog syndication or very popular blogs, or those who write for media outlets such as Huffington Post or The Examiner. Some of those voices are represented in my...

Yesterday, when looking for inspiration for something to write that didn’t involve misogyny or Atheism Plus (yes even I get tired of talking on some topics), I got an idea for a small project, one that involves you, dear reader. It’s called “3 Questions”, and it is exactly as it sounds; I will ask the atheist/agnostic/skeptic community 3 questions about the importance of atheism, skepticism or agnosticism to themselves,...