Forum: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life with Greta Christina

So you're an atheist. Now what? The way we deal with life — with love and sex, pleasure and death, reality and making stuff up —can change dramatically when we stop believing in gods, souls, and afterlives. When we leave religion — or if we never had it in the first place—where do we go? With her unique blend of compassion and humor, thoughtfulness and snark, Greta Christina most emphatically does not propose a single path to a good atheist life.

Greta Christian will be speaking about her latest book, The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life (https://www.amazon.com/Way-Heathen-Practicing-Atheism-Everyday/dp/1634310683), in which she offers questions to think about, ideas that may be useful, and encouragement to choose your own way. She addresses complex issues in an accessible, down-to-earth style, including: Why we're here, Sexual transcendence, How humanism helps with depression — except when it doesn’t, Stealing stuff from religion, and much more. Aimed at new and not-so-new atheists, questioning and curious believers, Christina shines a warm, fresh light on the only life we have.

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Greta Christina is also the author of Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God (https://the-orbit.net/greta/comforting-thoughts-about-death/), of Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why (https://the-orbit.net/greta/coming-out-atheist/), of Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless (https://the-orbit.net/greta/why-are-you-atheists-so-angry/), and of Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More (http://the-orbit.net/greta/bending/).

She is on the board of directors of Foundation Beyond Belief (https://foundationbeyondbelief.org/), and is co-founder and co-organizer of Godless Perverts (http://www.godlessperverts.com/), a San Francisco organization promoting a positive view of sexuality without religion.

She blogs at Greta Christina’s Blog (http://the-orbit.net/greta/), at The Orbit (http://the-orbit.net/), the atheist social justice media collective, and she is editor of Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients (http://www.amazon.com/Paying-For-It-Greta-Christina-ebook/dp/B007VSDPCE/).

You can follow her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/gretachristina), and on Twitter at @GretaChristina (https://twitter.com/GretaChristina).

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