THE CHAPTER FOUR BLOG

“I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an anti-theist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.” - Christopher Hitchens in Letters to a Young Contrarian. “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” - Sinclair Lewis “Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-women, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason, and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind, but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education, and science to take over.” - Madalyn Murray O'Hair Creationism: The belief that Kirk Cameron knows more than Stephen Hawking. ……………………………………………Eòin - Painter and government employee. Writer, photographer, pitbull wrangler, voracious devourer of books and films and knowledge, muggle, gardener, hesitant self-taught cook, and brave little traveler. People say I should have been an archivist of some sort. I think I should have been a paleontologist - I’d be out digging right now. I have always had rescue dogs and you can see two of them throughout these pages. Recently divorced after fifteen years. Still figuring out the life that follows. Over three decades, I lived in Seattle, San Francisco, and then Manhattan - now I make my home in rural New England. I like the quiet. I like the forest. I like snow in the winter. I like growing my own broccoli rabe. I like buying fresh, local goat’s milk cheese. This is chapter four.