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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That isn’t just religion. Many people act like the reason other people disagree with, um, I’ll call it ‘My own knowledge’ is they don’t know enough about ‘My own knowledge’ to see how right it is yet. You just aren’t listening hard enough to understand ‘My own knowledge,’ you are too closed minded to understand otherwise you would obviously agree. It is just a meme using a very human bias to survive.
Man, though, funny how religion uses an immature defense like that so often it has become a stereotype.
One small nitpick, Greta: it’s closed-minded–closed, as opposed to open, rather than close, as opposed to far.