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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Hope you enjoy Boston — maybe we’ll cross paths before you leave!
(OK, don’t know what happened to mangle the dash in that comment there…)
YOU ARE THE BEST FREAKING PART OF THIS CONFERENCE!!!!
REALLY BIG ATHEIST CONFERENCE 2012 FER REALZ!!!
ALL CAPS!!!
JT
Saw you, liked the breakout session – didn’t get a chance to say it, so … hi!
I don’t understand the worries about what is right and what is wrong. I suppose a remnant of a religious pre existence is the cause of it. This remnant makes you think about waging battles, winning or loosing, if either monogamy or polygamy can be right or wrong and so forth. If you are a true atheist, it doesn’t matter of what variety because in the end there is only one kind, you can not believe in terms of objective right or wrong unless you add a little qualifier. “Right or wrong for what, or for who?”. And you realize that this value is absolutely subjective, such as like, would I be happier or unhappier? Hurt or not hurt?. The answer to these last questions depends on your levels of oxytocin, hormones, empathy, etc. It is absolutely unimportant, unless you still have a vestige of the belief that you were created in the image of god.
If you KNOW you weren’t, you know that you are an accident of the behaviour of atoms, molecules, quantums, magnetic fields and what not. Right and wrong, related to behaviour, completely loose their meaning
Pau