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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It’s bizarre that this is a U.S. holiday. Does anyone observe Columbus day in the Caribbean? You know, where he actually LANDED?
The medical catastrophe for the New World is almost impossible to comprehend. We think of the Native disaster as about Washita, Sand Creek, or Wounded Knee. Minor killing sprees that happened hundreds of years after the initial holocaust.
And for historical perspective, as shocking as the conduct of the Spanish in the Caribbean and Mexico may be; THAT’S HOW THE SPANISH ACTED EVERYWHERE THEY WENT. During the Dutch War of Independence, the Spanish army set out, not just to kill every human being in Protestant zones, but even the cats, dogs and farm animals.