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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http://cectic.com/010.html
Twittered by me as
Shortened URL links back to here. Hopefully it’s not too mangled…
*applauds*
This one’s been annoying me a lot recently.
“You hate god.”
“no, I don’t hate god, how can I hate something that doesn’t exist.”
“see, you say he doesn’t exist – your hatred blinds you to the truth”…
and so on, round and round the circle.
Hey, I’M angry at leprechauns! Lousy little imps, always taunting me with their marshmallow cereal!
I hate invisible pink unicorns. And orbiting teapots.
A related Cectic comic: http://cectic.com/010.html
I know one atheist who hates god, but his emotions towards religion are combined with his built up anger from being a gifted kid talked down to by adults. Teachers and priests.
That guy also has no problem pointing out people’s misconceptions about him himself, though.
Well, isn’t it religion, and those religious people that he hates then?
Many atheists aren’t exactly happy about organized religion and many of its practitioners – for good reasons, that is not the same thing as hating the fictional character that these people and organisations claim is real and stand behind their actions.