Change My Blog Name?

Ever since I picked the name "Real Freethinking" I've wanted to change it. I'm a Christian and my goal in most of my interactions is to make more Christians. My reasons for that are not as diabolic as many people seem to think. I gain nothing by converting people. But I gain quite a headache from trying. That's not because people present mind boggling information that I've never heard before and I'm left blubbering like an idiot insisting on the truth of the Bible, but rather because people call me names and utter (via the internet) death threats and the like, which causes stress for me. Sometimes crafting a response to them takes quite a lot of restraint, and I will freely admit that from time to time I have lost my cool. My bad. And it is bad.
Anyways, the reason I picked "Real Freethinking" was that I have freely chosen to believe in Christianity. I was not raised Christian, so I wasn't brainwashed. However, quote-unquote freethinkers, seem to believe that only those who were brainwashed can believe in God. I wanted a blog where a community would form based on real free thought. A community where you were allowed to be atheist and you were allowed to be Christian or Muslim, or Jew. Where each "member" (reader/commenter) could present their case in an environment of mutual respect, without fear of ridicule or violent speech. But I came to think that people would be upset by the fact that Christian has called himself a real freethinker, thereby calling all others non-freethinkers. Unfortunately, I don't know how to change my blog name, so I'm stuck with it. Also, I've decided that I want to keep it anyways.

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Purpose

• Promote a sense of belonging to a large freethought community among the youth participants
• Encourage critical thinking in young people to enable them to draw their own conclusions
• Promote respect for others with different viewpoints, values, and beliefs
• Provide a safe and fun environment for personal and social development

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This is from the site of a secular summer camp. I will not be giving the web address because I won't promote them anymore than they would promote a Christian summer camp. Forgetting about point four, I'd say that those points look pretty good. But what happens when we go to another section? One titled Affirmations of Humanism? Let's see, shall we?

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A [selected] Statement of Principles: (brackets mine)

• We deplore efforts to denigrate human intelligence, to seek to explain the world in supernatural terms, and to look outside nature for salvation.
• We believe in an open and pluralistic society and that democracy is the best guarantee of protecting human rights from authoritarian elites and repressive majorities.
• We are committed to the principle of the separation of church and state.
• We affirm humanism as a realistic alternative to theologies of despair and ideologies of violence and as a source of rich personal significance and genuine satisfaction in the service to others.
• We believe in optimism rather than pessimism, hope rather than despair, learning in the place of dogma, truth instead of ignorance, joy rather than guilt or sin, tolerance in the place of fear, love instead of hatred, compassion over selfishness, beauty instead of ugliness, and reason rather than blind faith or irrationality.

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de·plore /dɪˈplɔr, -ˈploʊr/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[di-plawr, -plohr] verb (used with object), -plored, -plor·ing.

1.	to regret deeply or strongly; lament: to deplore the present state of morality.

2.	to disapprove of; censure.

3.	to feel or express deep grief for or in regard to: The class deplored the death of their teacher.

Hmmmm...well, I'm not going to tell you what to think about all of that. If I did that I'd be no better than a freethinker. My kids probably won't go to camp. But that's just because I hated it when I was a kid and won't force them to go. But if they do go, they'll go to a camp where their thinking isn't deplored as a matter of principle.