The Atheist Acumen of Anti-devotion
A History of Darwin Hollow's Beginnings
The AAA, or the Atheist Acumen of Anti-Devotion was born in the closet of a University Science Lab in 1967. A student of chemistry, known at the time as Edward Montgomery managed to concoct a hallucinogenic substance, which was accidentally exposed. It is undetermined what happened during the fifteen hours Montgomery spent in the lab's closet, but as reported in his autobiography, after stepping from the closet, he "came to the conclusion that God did not exist." Prior to the chemical accident, Montgomery had been a catholic who attended quarterly mass.Soon after the incident, Montgomery dropped out of school and moved to Pasadena, CA. Over the course of the following year, Montgomery legally changed his name to Darwin Hollows and wrote a sloppy but passionate book entitled The Importance of Lucidity in which he questioned religion and the existence of God. This novel was never published, however his second book, which was completed two years later was published by a small independent California publishing company and distributed throughout the greater southern California area. Within 4 months of its humble release, Darwin's second book entitled The Fools of God had grown in popularity and was beginning to spread beyond the state and across the country. Though during its prime, many publications attempted to interview Darwin, he refused to oblige any questions and lived reclusively.
It wasn't until 1975 that Darwin Hollows remerged in the public eye when he was arrested for harassing the Latter day Saints who tended an information table at LAX. It is reported that Darwin had been visiting the LS table every day consecutively for 2 months and would spend up to 6 hours per day questioning, arguing, and sometimes laughing at the LS representatives. Darwin was charged with unlawful harassment and sentenced to 9 months in a minimum security prison. Though the story made many papers, and sold more of Darwin Hollow's book, he refused to attend any press appointments and spent his 9 months writing a third book, entitled The Power of Disbelief which was released 5 days before his release from prison.
Over the course of the following year, Darwin began to accumulate a small collective of followers, primarily young women from unsteady backgrounds and families. It was that year in which Darwin Hollows formed the official Atheist Acumen of Anti-Devotion.
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By 1978, Darwin Hollows had accumulated a following of respectively 150 people both male and female ages 15-30. Their collective name, The Atheist Acumen of Anti-devotion, was first legitimized in an advertisement which the group posted in the San Francisco Chronicle which simply read: Stop denying yourself. Deny God, love The Atheist Acumen of Anti-Devotion Only days after the add was published in the Chronicle, the newspaper's mail was swamped with letters of complaint to the offense upon the religious community. Word soon began to spread throughout San Francisco of the peculiar collective known as the AAA. However only one journalist, Carl Shooker of The Rant a small college paper speculated that Darwin Hollows was behind the stunt.
"After reading such a simple attempt to provoke the religious community via a newspaper classified ad, I am immediately reminded of Darwin Hollows.
Also at this time, Hollows was in the process of producing a record with his band, Darwin and the Beagles which fell through the cracks during production when the record studio who was backing the album unexpectedly burned to the ground in the middle of the night.
In 1977, Hollows and his group of atheist revolutionaries emerged in great significance to public attention when a 7 foot tall statue of the Holy Virgin was stolen from a San Franciscan Cathedral and later deposited in a memorial graveyard 6 miles away.
"Darwin knows how to make people question things" - Charlotte Kingston (One of Darwin's ex girlfriends)
"Many people might feel saddened by a notion that we are in fact alone. However, it is the clarity of this realization that frees us and infuses our bodies and minds with power. It is once we realize that there is no entity greater than ourselves, then our superpowers shall be awakened within us all and we will rise to god-like mountains. Every single person has potential to become god-like. It is our blind reliance on God and all his empty promises that lead us to weakness and dependency. Once released from such useless efforts and fears, only then do we project our own divine light."
-Darwin Hollows from his novel, The Fools of God
