Hey! This post is designed to layout a sort of “schedule” when it comes to posts that’ll appear here in the future. There are two types of weekly posts that’ll appear EVERY week. That’s Mythology Monday and Fallacy Friday. Before going any further I’ll explain what I mean by these two posts.

Mythology Monday: Every Monday for the past month I’ve covered legendary and mythological beings. Yesterday’s MM were Yumboes a mythological race of fairy-type (the way modern people view “fairies” not the way the term has been used historically) beings from Senegal. The week before then I did the Tsunki’s water/water snake spirits who played a fairly important role in the mythology of the Shuar people of Ecuador and a few other parts of South America. I plan on doing 2 MM’s each week, one from Latin American mythologies (on this blog) and another on my Facebook page. I’ll be doing global ones on the Facebook page. These aren’t exactly academic, but they are meant to showcase the diversity of beliefs (and in someways the similarities of beliefs) worldwide.

Fallacy Friday: I debate with theists a lot, and some of them are very fallacious. The purpose of FF is to show common fallacies, and demonstrate how to respond to them, when debating with regular theists (even informal apologists). These fallacies appear in other types of arguments, not just ones tied to religious questions and religious assertions. In order to be as reasonable as possible it’s important to know how to identify fallacies and how to respond to them. I’ve done these Fallacy Friday’s before, and I am

These are two types of posts that I plan on doing weekly. I am planning on doing more informal articles, and some formal pieces (from time to time), especially where I translate articles in Spanish, into English, and then write a response to the original piece, relative to religion and atheism throughout Latin America. The first Fallacy Friday will go up this week. If you’d like to see a specific fallacy covered then you should let me know! I’ll also be translating memes and arguments from Spanish into English and responding to them. I want to show people, including and especially Latin@s in the United States who have similar levels of Spanish to mine (which is to say, not that great) the sorts of arguments free-thinkers in Latin America have to deal with. There’ll also be posts dealing specifically with Latin American history (and at times history in general). I want to help show the “experience” that comes with being someone who is Latin@ and a free-thinker. In my case it’s been rewarding because I am lucky enough to have had a family that was relatively chill towards my atheism, and because I am a vocal atheist. I was able to befriend atheists who have ambitions in the larger atheist community, and who have dreams. They saw my writing and liked it, even if they viewed it as relatively unpolished. They also saw how I defended myself when attacked by theists, both politely and bluntly.

As a Latin@ free-thinker, I can say that my experience has been relatively chill. But the reality is that for many Latin@ free-thinkers there has been a real cost to be paid for being free-thinking. In many cases it’s the same things as happen in the United States, but escalated. Some examples of this can be found here, and here. Part of the problem is that these are just instances that are reported on in English. There are articles in Latin@ newspapers that deal with atheism, but my experience with them, even those of them that are sent to me by others tend to focus on interfaith dating (two different articles). Which is tricky. Occasionally though articles about religion, and atheism will ask tough questions. Like are we alone in the universe? Which is the purpose of this Peruvian article that spoke of faith, religion, and aliens. It might seem silly to some but you don’t often hear about Latin@s and science, and Latin@s and theology in a skeptical sense if you live in the United States. But there are Latin@ free-thinkers (because I know many Latin@s who avoid the use of the word “atheist” and “ateo”, especially in public out of fear of someone reacted negatively) who have had to deal with very real and very raw reactions by their parents, other family, and friends because they aren’t convinced religious claims are true. It is vital to note that while Latin@ free-thinkers aren’t murdered for our beliefs, we do face very real, very public isolation. In the United States atheism is becoming more accepted, and that is apparently happening in Latin America, but it’s slow. And the difficulties of organizing effective in Latin (particularly Central) America make it so that it’s rare for an atheist or group of atheists who are Latin@ in our home nations (aside from Puerto Rico) to do something “newsworthy”. This contributes to us being denied airtime and thus opportunities to show the world our faces. Throughout the week I’d like to showcase articles I see in Spanish and in English, and talk about them. I think it could be eye-opening for many, including Latin@ free-thinkers in the United States.

Let me know what you think of this informal schedule. Remember that posts on Fridays and Mondays are guaranteed, and posts throughout the rest of the week are fairly likely. In April I want to do daily posts, and in May I am definitely planning daily posts. I’m a college student and I’m in the later half of my 1st semester of senior year. It’s kind of crazy right now. But expect at least 3 articles a week, and almost certainly more than that. Have a great day everyone!