Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is author of
The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life, of
Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God, of
Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, of
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, and of
Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More, and is editor of
Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients. She has been a public speaker for many years, and many of her talks can be seen on YouTube. Her writing has appeared in multiple magazines and newspapers, including Ms., Penthouse, Chicago Sun-Times, On Our Backs, and Skeptical Inquirer, and numerous anthologies, including
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong and three volumes of
Best American Erotica. (Any views she expresses in this blog are solely hers, and do not necessarily represent this organizations.) She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid. You can email her at gretachristina (at) gmail (dot) com, or follow her on
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Dammit, Greta! I *told* you I wanted that atheist plumbing post on my desk by Tuesday! What am I paying you for?
I dreamed that Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy was taken over by a lawyer, and I got sucked into a vulgar, troll-feeding comment thread. . . I woke up in a panic, and when I realized what was happening, *then* I got really freaked out.
Um…have I mentioned recently that you are kind of…um…weird?
And that’s coming from someone who had to barricade all her middle-schoolers in the auditorium to save them from an onslaught of atttacking demons.
Atheist plumbing == “God ain’t gonna clean that up for you!”.
“It took me a few moments to realize that this was a dream-memory and not a real one.”
I used to have this recurring dream that I won alot of money. Then I’d wake up, still stuck in it, thinking, “Where’s the loot?”
This could be a good lead-in to a post contrasting the reality of sleep-consciousness vs. everyday waking consciousness..
“Dammit, Greta! I *told* you I wanted that atheist plumbing post on my desk by Tuesday! What am I paying you for?”
Dammit to hell. Out of all the dreams I’ve had in my life, this is the one that turns out to be real. I’ll have it on your desk by the end of the week.