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Do any of you ever have atheist dreams? I don’t mean atheist dreams, as in, “dreams and hopes for a better, more atheist- friendly world.” I mean atheist dreams, as in, “I dreamed that Christopher Hitchens was trying to sell me life insurance,” or, “I dreamed that the ghost of Thomas Aquinas appeared at my [...]
Archive for July, 2008
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The Last Taboo
July 30th, 2008 
Greta Christina This piece was originally published on the Blowfish Blog. You’ve almost certainly heard this phrase before. If you’ve been paying attention to sex in society and popular culture, anyway. You may have read it in a political debate; a conversation about porn; even a movie review. “(X) is the last taboo.” Now here’s the weird [...]
Who Marriage is For: A Tale of Two Weddings
July 28th, 2008 Greta Christina Who is marriage for now? And what is it, anyway? I want to tell a story. Two stories, I guess, about two weddings, that show how radically the answer to that question has changed in just the past few years. The first time Ingrid and I got married at City Hall, the whole thing had [...]
Dream diary, 7/28/08: The Shadow Government
July 28th, 2008 Greta Christina I dreamed that there was a secret organization — a corporate organization, but also connected with the government somehow — that was controlling people through subliminal signals created by shadows falling on their bodies while they slept. In the dream, I “woke up” to see some shadows in the corner of the room: the shadows [...]
The “Pick Two” Game, Or, Do Believers Really Believe What They Say They Believe?
July 27th, 2008 Greta Christina Do y’all want to play a game? It’s a game with a semi- serious point, about theology and whether people’s religious practices line up with what they claim to believe. But for now, let’s just start with the game. The game: Design your own Christian theology. And here are the rules. A couple of days [...]
The Eroticism of Exercise: The Blowfish Blog
July 25th, 2008 Greta Christina Please note: This post, and the post that it links to, contain information about my personal sex life. Family members and others who don’t want to read about that stuff are advised that they probably don’t want to read this post. I have a new piece up on the Blowfish Blog. And no, it’s not [...]
All-Knowing, All-Powerful, All-Good: Pick Two, or, How Christian Theology Shoots Itself In the Foot
July 24th, 2008 Greta Christina There’s a pattern I’ve noticed in atheist/ theist debates in the blogosphere. And the pattern in this: Christian theology — specifically, the belief that God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good — is making these debates a whole lot easier for atheists. The religious apologetics consistently founder on one of these rocks: God’s supposed complete knowledge, [...]
Good Stuff, or, Greta’s Sporadic Blog Carnival #1
July 21st, 2008 Greta Christina I’m going to do something a little new today. I often run across great blog posts that I want my readers to know about. I often get inspired to write posts of my own about them, praising the writer and exploring my take on their ideas. I often then get distracted (or just don’t have [...]
Blog Carnivals!
July 21st, 2008 Greta Christina Blog carnivals! Humanist Symposium #22 (always my favorite blog carnival) at Faith in Honest Doubt. This one has a nifty theme of questions and questioning. Carnival of the Liberals #69 at Stump Lane (where they somehow managed to avoid stupid jokes about the carnival’s number — good for them!). Skeptic’s Circle #91 at Sorting Out [...]
Why I Don’t Believe in the Soul
July 21st, 2008 Greta Christina I spend a lot of my time in this blog arguing why I don’t believe in God. Today I want to do something a little different. I want to talk, not about why I don’t believe in God or gods, not about why some particular religion’s belief in God is mistaken or contradictory… but about [...]
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