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This piece was originally published in Free Inquiry magazine. I’m going to go out on a limb here. Being an atheist demands that we work for social justice. A lot of atheists will argue with this. They’ll say that atheism means one thing, and one thing only: the lack of belief in any god. And [...]
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Podcast Interview on “This Is Really Happening”
April 17th, 2012 
Greta Christina “If you really want something to be true, that’s when you have to question it.” Back when the whole Rapture thing was happening, I did an interview with a filmmaker who was working on a documentary about it. That interview has now been turned into a podcast on the “This Is Really Happening” podcast program. [...]
Adulthood, and the Liberation of Lowered Expectations
January 24th, 2012 Greta Christina Having recently turned fifty, it seems like a good time to ponder the question of what it means to be an adult. Ingrid and I were talking the other day about adulthood, and how it isn’t anything like we thought it would be when we were kids, or even when we were in college. When [...]
Happy 50th Birthday To Me… and My Half-Century Cocktail Recipe
December 31st, 2011 Greta Christina Happy birthday to me I don’t live in a tree But I look like a primate Because I am one! Happy birthday to me! I’m 50 years old today, a fact that I’m mildly weirded out about. On the other hand, as they say, it beats the alternative. And I plan to spend my fifties [...]
Intransitive Gratitude: Feeling Thankful in a Godless World
November 28th, 2011 Greta Christina If you don’t believe in God, what does gratitude mean? I don’t mean specific gratitude towards specific people for specific benevolent acts. I mean that more broad, general, sweeping sense of gratitude: gratitude for things like good health, having food to eat, having friends and family, the mere fact of being alive at all. I [...]
The HUMP! Festival, and Loving the Modern, Sexy, Secular World
November 7th, 2011 Greta Christina I’m in love with the modern world. I’m having a seriously passionate sexy affair with it. The modern world is smokin’ hot. And I am powerfully of the opinion that the modern world is a smokin’ hot lover, to a huge extent, because the modern world is an increasingly secular world. I was in Seattle [...]
From the Archives: Skepticism As a Discipline
November 2nd, 2011 Greta Christina Since I moved to the Freethought Blogs network, I have a bunch of new readers who aren’t familiar with my greatest hits from my old, pre-FTB blog. So I’m linking to some of them, about one a day, to introduce them to the new folks. Today’s archive treasure: Skepticism As a Discipline. The tl;dr: Skepticism [...]
Letting the World Surprise You: Secular Transcendence and, Once Again, Morris Dancing
November 1st, 2011 Greta Christina I had this kind of amazing night on Halloween: it gave me one of my moments of atheist/ secular transcendence, and it’s been making me wax philosophical about the importance of letting the universe surprise you. So I thought I’d share with the rest of the class. One of Ingrid’s Morris dancing teams practices on [...]
My View of Love Apparently Aligned with Catholic Church
October 22nd, 2011 Greta Christina So apparently, my skeptical/ atheist view of love is aligned with that of the Catholic Church. No, really. Yesterday, I posted a link to a piece from my archives, A Skeptic’s View of Love. (The gist: Love is more than something you feel — it’s something you do, a series of choices you make. And [...]
From the Archives: Atheist Meaning in a Small, Brief Life, Or, On Not Being a Size Queen
October 20th, 2011 Greta Christina Since I moved to the Freethought Blogs network, I have a bunch of new readers who aren’t familiar with my greatest hits from my old, pre-FTB blog. So I’m linking to some of them, about one a day, to introduce them to the new folks. Today’s archive treasure: Atheist Meaning in a Small, Brief Life, [...]
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