African American Humanism: An Anthology, edited by Norm R. Allen
Amazing Conversions: Why Some Turn to Faith & Others Abandon Religion, by Bob Altemeyer and Bruce Hunsberger
Atheism: A Reader, by S.T. Joshi
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction, by Julian Baggini
Atheism: The Case Against God, by George H. Smith
The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas, by Robin Harvie and Stephanie Myers, editors
Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All — and What We Can Do About It, by Sean Faircloth
Black and Not Baptist: Nonbelief and Freethought in the Black Community, by Donald Barbera
The Black Humanist Experience: An Alternative to Religion, by Norm R. Allen
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel C. Dennett
Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, by Janet Heimlich
By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism, by Anthony B. Pinn
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, by Stephen Batchelor
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett
The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan
The Digital Cuttlefish: Omnibus, by Digital Cuttlefish
Does God Hate Women? by Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson, by Jennifer Michael Hecht
The End of Biblical Studies, by Hector Avalos
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, by Sam Harris
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, by Susan Jacoby
From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath, by Kenan Malik
God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist, by Victor J. Stenger
The God Debates, by John Shook
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens
God vs. Darwin: The War between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom, by Mano Singham
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists, by Dan Barker
God’s Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong, by S.T. Joshi
The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God, by Dan Barker
The Good Book: A Humanist Bible, by A.C. Grayling
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe, by Greg Epstein
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, by Bobby Henderson
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, by Richard Dawkins
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God, by Michael Shermer
I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith through an Atheist’s Eyes, by Hemant Mehta
In Defense of Atheism: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam, by Michel Onfray
Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up, by John Allen Paulos
Judaism for Everyone … Without Dogma, by Bernardo Sorj
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Religion, by Marlene Winell
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right’s Alternate Version of American History, by Chris Rodda
Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life without God, by A.C. Grayling
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality, by André Comte-Sponville
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True, by Richard Dawkins
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart D. Ehrman
Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars, by Sikivu Hutchinson
Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All, by David Fitzgerald
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Not the Impossible Faith: Why Christianity Didn’t Need a Miracle to Succeed, by Richard Carrier
Nothing: Something to Believe in, by Nica Lalli
The Only Prayer I’ll Ever Pray: Let My People Go, by Donald R. Wright
Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Caring, Ethical Kids Without Religion, by Dale McGowan
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, by Christopher Hitchens, editor
Quest for Truth: Scientific Progress and Religious Beliefs, by Mano Singham
The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound, by Jack Huberman
Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief, by Dale McGowan
Red Neck, Blue Collar, Atheist: Simple Thoughts About Reason, Gods and Faith, by Hank Fox
Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism, by Richard Carrier
Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality, by Darrel W. Ray
The Skeptic’s Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions, by Robert Todd Carroll
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Paranormal, by Lynne Kelly
Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment, by Phil Zuckerman
UFOs, Ghosts, and a Rising God: Debunking the Resurrection of Jesus, by Chris Hallquist
A Voice Of Reason In An Unreasonable World: The Rise Of Atheism On Planet Earth, by Al Stefanelli
The Ways of an Atheist, by Bernard Katz
What Do You Do With a Chocolate Jesus?: An Irreverent History of Christianity, by Thomas Quinn
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, by Michael Shermer
Why Evolution Is True, by Jerry A. Coyne
Why I Am Not a Christian, by Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith, by Richard Carrier
Why I am Not a Hindu, by Ramendra Nath
Why I Am Not a Muslim, by Ibn Warraq
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, by Michael Shermer
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First, last, and always: Ingrid.
I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Susie Bright, for lighting a fire under me and getting me to freaking well write this book already.
The worst mistake Ingrid ever made was telling me she’d been an editor at her college newspaper. As a result, she consistently gets drafted into unpaid proofreading and copy editing duties. She read through several versions of this book, and helped on every level from tiny typos to the vision thing. I owe her more than I can ever say.
Thanks to my cover designer, Casimir Fornalski. You nailed it.
Thanks to Ophelia Benson, Susie Bright, Richard Carrier, JT Eberhard, Ben Gamble, Russell Glasser, Chris Hallquist, Greg Laden, Adam Lee, Alan Sokal, Al Stefanelli, and Stephanie Zvan, for reading early drafts of the book and pointing me in good directions. Any mistakes are all of my doing and none of theirs.
Thanks to Amy and Rob Siders at 52 Novels, for their excellent work on formatting, and their patience with my endless questions about it. This self-publishing project would have been impossibly daunting without them.
Thanks to every single blogger in the Freethought Blogs network — and a special thanks to Ed Brayton and PZ Myers for creating it. I joined this network for professional advancement and to help advance our shared cause. I got a new family. It has been one of the best surprises of my life.
Thanks to AlterNet, and to my editors there, Tara Lohan and Tana Ganeva, for publishing my work and getting it read outside the atheosphere.
Thanks to my employers and colleagues Last Gasp, my day job, for their patience with my ever-shifting schedule, and for being an awesome bunch of brilliant and hilarious freaks.
I am enormously grateful to my blog readers. I get many of my best ideas from you. The Resource Guide was almost entirely crowd-sourced from you. And more to the point: You are the reason I do this.
And last, first, and always: Ingrid.
ABOUT GRETA CHRISTINA
Greta Christina is one of the most widely-read and well-respected bloggers in the atheist blogosphere. She blogs at the cleverly named Greta Christina’s Blog, and is a regular contributor to the online political magazine, AlterNet. She was ranked by an independent analyst as one of the Top Ten most popular atheist bloggers, and her writing has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, including Ms., Penthouse, Skeptical Inquirer, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the anthology Everything You Know About God Is Wrong. She is editor of the Best Erotic Comics anthology series and of Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients, and is author of Bending, an erotic novella in the three-novella collection Three Kinds of Asking For It. She has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, skepticism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is on the speakers’ bureaus of the Secular Student Alliance and the Center for Inquiry. She tweets at @GretaChristina. She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid.
Why Are You Atheists So Angry?
99 Things that Piss Off the Godless
by Greta Christina
Copyright © 2012, Greta Christina
All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including (but not limited to) photocopying, recording, xerography, scanning, or any information storage or retrieval system now available or developed in the future, without prior written permission of the author.
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Portions of this book were originally published on Greta Christina’s Blog, freethoughtblogs.com/greta, and on AlterNet, alternet.org.
Cover design by Casimir Fornalski, casimirfornalski.com.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT GRETA CHRISTINA
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