Atheist Meme of the Day: Coincidences Happen

Greta Christina

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Today’s Atheist Meme of the Day, from my Facebook page. Pass this on; or don’t; or edit it as you see fit; or make up your own. Enjoy!

“That can’t possibly be a coincidence!” is not a good argument for God or the supernatural. True, the chances of any given improbable thing happening are, well, improbable — but the chances of some improbable things happening in your lifetime are actually very high. Pass it on: if we say it enough times to enough people, it may get across.

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Atheist Meme of the Day: Coincidences Happen

About the author

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 Facebook.
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3 thoughts on “Atheist Meme of the Day: Coincidences Happen”

  1. DSimon
    1

    Against my better interests, I followed the link this jerk-in-the-box keeps spamming. There, I came across this winner:

    Hey Randi… Just wanted to let you know I have posted this on every forum on the internet.

    Really? Every forum? That’s pretty darn impressive. I mean, I’m just imagining the huge amount of bandwidth you’d need in order to continue posting your spam on every forum at a rate matching the rate at which new forums are created.

  2. Corbin
    2

    I just checked my forum, and it’s not there. So…obviously false. Not that it wasn’t already obviously false, haha.
    Anyway, good posts, Greta. Keep them up!

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