.png){kind=logo}
Dammit to hell. The “Very Big Atheist Conference” post wasn’t supposed to go up until April 1. Typepad screwed up with the scheduling. I’ll reprint it then, with all comments that had already been made on it. Sorry for the mixup!
Archive for March, 2011
Posted in 
“Spreading the Good News About Atheism”: Why We Need Atheist Ad Campaigns
March 29th, 2011 
Greta Christina “Are you good without God? Millions are.” “Imagine no religion.” “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” Atheist ad campaigns are everywhere. Around the U.S. and around the world, atheist organizations have been buying space on billboards, buses, TV and more, with messages ranging from the mild-mannered “Don’t believe in God? [...]
Fred Phelps, and Why We Shouldn’t Look for Loopholes in the First Amendment
March 28th, 2011 Greta Christina This piece was originally published on AlterNet. Let’s start with something I hope we all agree on. What Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church do? It’s repulsive. Picketing people’s funerals? Specifically, picketing the funerals of gay-bashing victims and U.S. soldiers? Going to people’s funerals and essentially celebrating? Wielding big colorful signs saying, “God Hates [...]
Closeted Politicians and Bi Invisibility
March 25th, 2011 Greta Christina This piece was originally published on the Blowfish Blog. I never reprinted it here, since it was very topical, and by the time the reprint rights had reverted to me the media flare-up I was writing about had run its course. But the Blowfish Blog archives are apparently no longer on the Internets, and the [...]
Greta’s April Speaking Schedule: Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Boston, Des Moines, Sacramento, and San Francisco
March 23rd, 2011 Greta Christina April is the coolest month, breeding atheists out of the dead land… My speaking schedule in April is a little bit bonkers. I’ll be speaking at the American Atheists national convention in Des Moines, Iowa, and I’ll be on a panel at the American Humanist Association annual conference in Boston. Plus I have additional speaking [...]
Atheists of Color – A List
March 21st, 2011 Greta Christina So here it is, as promised — a list of prominent atheists of color. And, since it seemed relevant — here, also, is a list of organizations of atheists of color, and atheist organizations predominantly focused on/ participated in by people of color. If you’re helping to organize an atheist conference, and you want your [...]
The Fred Phelps Supreme Court Decision and Why We Shouldn’t Look for Loopholes in the First Amendment
March 16th, 2011 Greta Christina When it comes to free speech and the First Amendment, the content of the speech, and whether or not we find it hateful, vile and abhorrent, is irrelevant. Let’s start with something I hope we all agree on. What Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church do? It’s repulsive. Picketing people’s funerals? Specifically, picketing the [...]
Atheists of Color?
March 14th, 2011 Greta Christina I want to compile a list of prominent atheists of color. Not in history (I might do that sometime later), but people who are alive and active now. Can you help me? I’m getting a bit tired of atheist conference organizers saying, “We’d like to be more diverse and have more speakers of color, but [...]
High School Atheists Courageously Battle for Their Rights… With Awesome Organization Behind Them
March 10th, 2011 Greta Christina So when I was writing my recent news piece for AlterNet about the Secular Student Alliance and their new dedicated program for high school atheist groups, I kept finding myself being entertained by how hard it was to write. I am so not a news writer: I am an opinion writer, to the nucleus of [...]
Greta’s Speaking Tour — Urbana/Champaign, Calgary, and Edmonton, March 10-13… and Brief Blog Break
March 9th, 2011 Greta Christina One last reminder: If you’re in Illinois or Alberta — specifically in Urbana/Champaign in Illinois, or in Calgary or Edmonton in Alberta, Canada — come hear me speak! I’m going to be doing a mini speaking tour, March 10-13, in these three cities. My stops will be at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the [...]
Recent Comments