Brand New Atheist

Approximately one year ago today (October 1st 2007) I became and atheist. Every now and then I educate myself or I get educated. For instance, about a month ago (August 26th 2008) I became a vegetarian. And about a month ago (September 2nd 2008) I became a democrat.

A lot has changed for me since I became an atheist but my overall life has changed very little. I haven’t been disowned by anyone nor have I had to defend myself physically. I started writing down my thoughts the day I became an atheist and that eventually became BrandNewAtheist.com. Then I created my Twitter account to post small thoughts and sarcastic comments. I have a small following on Twitter which means a few people are occasionally interested in what I say.

What has changed the most for me is the way I think. Once I removed anything supernatural most of the ways I think about things changed in an instant. It has made me so much happier than I ever was before. It’s like being released from a mental prison and knowing they can never put you away again.

I thank all of you who have befriended be on Twitter and commented on my site.

My girls have been homeschooled and will be starting Montessori in 2 days. Today was an open house for attendees. We got to walk around and meet the teachers and see their work areas.

I only saw one teacher wearing a cross and one of the teachers looked like jesus, not kidding.

As I was walking around the very first book I saw was “God gave us this country” which made me think “Come on, seriously”. The second book I saw started with the word “Lord” and before I could finish reading the title I thought “This can’t be right” then I finished reading “of the flies”. OK, that’s better.

As I was writing the title I thought “I bet people are going to think I meant something else”.

After nearly 3 days of manually moving the old site posts and comments to this new site, I’m done. I transfered each of them lovingly and manually adjusted the dates to their original dates. Now that I’m suing this new technology, if I ever move my site again it will be much easier.

Check out the new site, leave comments if you have them, let me know If something appears to be wrong with the site. I’m very happy with the new site.

I’m still converting another of my sites, it’s much larger than this one.

I’m taking some time to convert this site to WordPress which will allow for more flexible posting.

This will enable me to post from more locations, for instance this post is being created from my iPhone.

When I’m done importing all of the older posts, this site will be in much better position to move forward.