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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I love these things Greta!!!!!!! Thank you so much!
Nobody says that you are criticizing. It’s just many atheists start whining as soon as we say the same, that we “think atheism is mistaken”. We get arguments such as “NOOOO like STOP being IN MY FACE about religion! Like oh noo! Like stop trying to convert me and preach me stuff! Like whaat!?”
Then when we try to defend that we get stuff like, “I NEVER criticized you the first place?! Like SERIOUSLY! Like seriously it is SOOOOO different and this is not EVEN the same thing! Like you’re just being IN MY FACE and all I said was I did not like your idea! Like why are you so against us atheists?”
Of course that’s not to say that some believers ARE very IN YOUR FACE (WBC, for example). However, I believe that for many other Christians, they are not even close to this misrepresented image.
John A.: poster child for Christian Privilege.
John, I think you’re, like, confusing your atheist stereotype with, like, your valley girl stereotype.
Like, totally
Greta, can I just say that you are my hero?
Seriously. You’re posts make me think, and I love reading them even on the few occasions when I disagree, because you really explain yourself and make me look at things in a new light, and because you express your opposition to things so…positively. Not “I’m right and you’re wrong” but “this is why this makes sense to me” as you explore ideas.
But you’re also my hero because you help me affirm that I’m not a bad, mean person for wanting to ask people to look at religion, or other opinions they hold, and have a logical, friendly debate.
Ewww, I wrote you’re instead of your! >.<
D'oh.