I joined Professor Dawkins' site recently, and the Rational Response was on my to-join list for quite some time now. There's a problem with Dawkin's Homepage & Forum (http://richarddawkins.net/), and I'm worried some suicide nutter crashed a bug into it...it's probably just me being paranoid, but I was sure there would be crossover members between here and there that might know more than I, which wouldn't be hard...

I'm an Atheist that teaches in the Buckle of the Bible-Belt. I've already lost two jobs for my no-religion, and I may be working on my third. The first time I honestly told children, if they asked, that I don’t believe in any supernatural (and that was all). The second time, I didn't say anything at all, and let them think what they wanted. This time, I've even lied and said I patterned my spiritual beliefs after Benjamin Franklin, a vague Deist (Atheist on the inside). But that wasn't enough for the parents who complained...the stupid funkers! They’re probably still mad because I made the Biology teacher stop using holy-oil (olive) on ‘demon possessed children.’

I'm getting into teaching late, because I was a Atheist-Marine first. I'm a great teacher that has never scored less that perfect on every observation given by students, peers, and supervisory teachers. I make every class fun, active, funny, and positive. Seasoned teachers are always stealing my classroom management, lesson plans, and teaching style. I've personally pulled a dozen students from Special Education classes into A-B Honors classes; during my first year. All they needed was love, honesty, and attention. Having several learning disabilities that were mislabeled as Retarded until late high school, I’m better at pulling students out of that pit and showing them how to excel by their strengths. I could go on about the shit that is the education system in the South, but I'm sure all of you have heard about it. I’m quite sure they don’t want an Atheists to win Teacher of the year, which will may be achieved if I can keep from loosing another position due to paperwork and computer assignment errs…yeah, right…

I look forward to becoming more active here, and sending money via money order. I must keep my identity to myself. I intend to go far in politics and I'm just before "getting saved." Then I will fulfill Jefferson's promise to crush, stomp, and drive all fundamentalists from public and political forums by subversions, cohesions, diversions, divisions, and foxy compulsions.