So, who and what am I?

Who am I? My name is Cenza Grillo and I'm a writer. A writer who is concerned for the physical and mental health of the human species if the church is allowed to go on as it is.

What am I? It's generally expected that anyone writing about the ills of revealed religion will be an atheist. I am not. I am a deist - more precisely, I am a non-religious philosophical agnostic deist. In truth, all deists are agnostic and accept that we cannot know what is out there, but as many people don't realise this it makes sense to add on that tag to be clear. I do not believe in a god or gods, I do not go to church, worship, pray, expect to be rewarded in the afterlife, or adhere to any rules laid out in any written scripture. My own simple belief is that the big bang was possibly brought about by some First Cause, whatever that may have been, and that evolution kicked in from there. I am a philosophical deist because I invest more in considering the possibility than accepting it as a reality. There is nothing more to it than that, and I shan't be suggesting to anyone who reads this blog that they should consider converting to deism themselves. I am offering this information about my personal belief system in the spirit of full disclosure, in case anyone makes the assumption that I am an atheist and is disappointed to discover otherwise at a later date.

I am the author of Deism Defined which will be published in the spring of 2010.