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Dan O'Connell

Dan O'Connell was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended a Catholic grade school and high school, and served as an altar boy. In 1982 he earned a BS in Mathematics from Cleveland State University, and he has worked as an aerospace engineer for the past thirty years. He has acquired and read a good many books on the subject of religion and religious faith and he is now quite passionate in his nonbelief.


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In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Cornerback

"One huge problem I have with football (one that certainly crops up elsewhere in our society) is the preponderance of players and coaches who continually invoke the Almighty as a major force in their lives, and in the progress of their careers. Certainly if they're hell-bent, so to speak, on deluding themselves about the nature of the universe and their place in it, that's their own affair. But at the start of the 2009 season, I noticed yet another reminder about the level many football players (and other athletes, to be sure) are willing to take this nonsense to."