Well How About That? A Moral Atheist

OK, here’s the thing. Within the next two weeks updates will be even scarcer than they are now. Reason is as follows.

I’m going to go to Hanoi, Vietnam, to teach English at a school for blind kids, as purely voluntary work.

Well look at that. A moral atheist. They come in six-packs you know.

Hanoi is a fairly modern Southeast Asian city and (apparently) there are cybercafés on each street corner. Whenever I find a break from helping out blind kids I might pop in there and check my Facebook.

Vietnam is a country under a totalitarian communist regime. However, the principal religious orientation is Buddhism, and society, more so in Hanoi, is bathed in deep Confucianism. I am bound to find interesting things to write about, and I will take a lot of pictures (I promise!).

So don’t fret if I don’t post. I hope my readership (all 3 of you) will sit tight and wait until I get back for more, and hopefully I’ll find time once I’m there anyway.

Have a good one!

13 Responses

  1. Best of luck in Vietnam. Glad to hear your keeping up with this blog.

    Jason - July 12, 2007 at 4:30 pm
  2. Good for you and those kids. :-) Have a good time and make sure to write asap!

    Sandy - July 12, 2007 at 5:21 pm
  3. Sounds exciting! Have a great time! And please do take lots of pictures, because I think South East Asia is beautiful.

    Taylor - July 12, 2007 at 9:41 pm
  4. Thank you very much! It means a lot to me to have 3 readers :)

    I’ll write as soon as I can and I’ll take mucho pictures.

    eltower - July 12, 2007 at 10:38 pm
  5. Hi eltower. Make your readers four. (I just read, I don’t comment much).
    @Taylor: South-East Asia is beauttiful, true. I live here, in the Philippines.
    @eltower: Of course, there are moral atheists! Non-atheists perceive us as devil-worshippers and carriers of evil, but we’re not right?
    Enjoy yourself in Hanoi. Ciao.

    geekcritic - July 13, 2007 at 2:45 am
  6. Best wishes and take care

    - reader 5

    kwx - July 13, 2007 at 5:42 am
  7. Reader #6…

    nothing more to say, except… good luck!

    Richard - July 13, 2007 at 9:56 am
  8. Gee, thanks everyone!

    If anyone’s in Hanoi a meetup would be cool. Just drop a line in the Gospel email!: gospelofreason -~-> at -~-> gmail.com

    I’m off in a couple of hours via Paris sooo,

    Peace,

    eltower

    eltower - July 13, 2007 at 9:56 am
  9. Reader #7…
    I’m from Malaysia, but doubt you can stop by. I haven’t commented much, mainly coz you do a good job of defending your views, which I mainly share and I didn’t feel the need to help. :)

    (I do think global warming is real, and that smokers should be errr… done bad things to. :p)

    Wilz - July 13, 2007 at 10:19 am
  10. Have fun being helpful. What has morality got to do with religion anyway? Or should this be What has religion to do with morality anyway?

    hoverfrog - July 13, 2007 at 3:37 pm
  11. I think I count as a reader, too.

    Andrew Sidwell - July 16, 2007 at 5:46 am
  12. Do I count? :-)

    lowerleavell - July 26, 2007 at 7:56 pm
  13. Finally back! I never should have left it. Posting resumes in 5…

    eltower - July 31, 2007 at 7:57 am

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