Our newest Atheist Blogroll member is The Seven Solitudes written by Dane Andrade. Dan has been kind enough to write an introduction to his outstanding new blog.
My name is Dane Andrade. I am the sole contributor to my personal blog at www.DaneAndrade.com. Raised in the deep south, and graduate of a University of Notre Dame, I am an agnostic atheist, future lawyer, and skilled orator and debater. I am the founder of the Secular Covenant, and the head administrator of Facebook's largest Non-religious community, Atheists, Agnostics, and Non-religious, with over 10,000 members, many of which are active daily. I currently work for the government in Newport, Rhode Island, my background is in Psychology, Computer Engineering, and Theology. I am studying and saving for law school in the New England area.
Excerpt from Blog:
"Every human can be taught to explain how the sun is not a god, the world is not flat, the earth is not 6,000 years old. The arguments become more refined, beyond the reach of science, and while she was dragging humanity on her back, the horde slipped in behind her, ready to knock her down at one moment's weakness, beat her ruthlessly, defining her personage, as if she were a subjective nameless adolescent. Unprotected, she will soon be defined to include that which is untenable. The very ideal of anti-science, becomes science. A transmutation of thought, the poisonous gas of supposed supernaturalism and dogmatic metaphysics injected into her veins like cement mix in a forest oasis. We have gone from sun gods, to sky gods, to moon gods, to personable gods, to one god, to one spirit, to one personal god, to the closet thing to reality, a pantheistic, deistic god impotent to creation, and then, as if we were no longer able to offer the counter, violent regression towards primordial worship. Back to sun gods, back to cleverly hidden polytheism in the form of a triune, back to antediluvian myths, back to young earths, primitive geology, and ancestral ghost worshiping, back to blood sacrifice and cannibalism, back to tongue languages, and back to promises of paradise and eternal torment. Using the very defense against these things, the last known vestigial vanguard against the total domination of the lapsing tit for tat equilibrium; science. The very same people who must defend her become lost in a sudden maze of conflicts from the gathering hordes of atavism. For society's intellectuals to have to stop and explain something as simple as the age of earth, while the concept of an eternal place of fire goes unchecked is immeasurably improvident. "
Welcome to the team Dane.
