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Every Atheist Needs: Reddit
I’ve talked about Reddit here a lot, due to the fact that it had a heavy hand in my self-identification as an atheist and becoming an...

Courtney Heard
Nov 3, 20142 min read


Every Atheist Needs: Contact By Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan took the idea that you leave this world better than you found it to an extreme. Few people have left a legacy so important to...

Courtney Heard
Oct 27, 20143 min read


Every Atheist Needs: Confessions Of An Innocent Man
Confessions Of An Innocent Man is written by the late William Sampson, a Canadian engineer who, while working abroad in Riyadh, found...

Courtney Heard
Oct 20, 20142 min read
Hitch Talks Don’t Often Make Me Cry… But This One…
Christopher Hitchens says goodbye, and Professor Richard Dawkins embraces him for the last time in eternity. If this doesn’t make you...

Courtney Heard
Oct 17, 20141 min read


Every Atheist Needs: Particle Fever
The film has no shortage of breathtaking shots of the Large Hadron Collider which should actually be called the Fucking Massive Hadron...

Courtney Heard
Oct 13, 20142 min read


Every Atheist Needs: An Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth
Hadfield, my fellow Canadian, single-handedly revived our fascination with space as we waited every day for his next photo of Earth from...

Courtney Heard
Oct 6, 20142 min read


Every Atheist Parent Needs: The Kid Should See This @TheKidShouldSee
It’s called The Kid Should See This and it’s kind of like Upworthy for kids. It’s just video after video that engages kids and each...

Courtney Heard
Sep 29, 20141 min read


Every Atheist Needs: Wrong Men & Twisted Confessions
The two books I’m talking about are The Wrong Men by Stanley Cohen and Twisted Confessions: The True Story Behind The Kitty Genovese And...

Courtney Heard
Sep 22, 20143 min read


Every Atheist Parent Needs: Magformers
Lego is so much fun because it becomes whatever the hell you want, no holy. You can build an airplane, a Seadoo, a brewery or a crack...

Courtney Heard
Sep 15, 20141 min read


Every Atheist Needs: Waking Up by Sam Harris
Boy! You think you a know a person (from reading tweets), and then they go and write something so beautifully surprising and delightfully...

Courtney Heard
Sep 8, 20144 min read


Every Atheist Needs: Shelley Segal
I first came across Shelley on launch day of Atheist TV. She’d made an appearance at the Reason Rally, which was the first thing...

Courtney Heard
Sep 1, 20142 min read


Every Atheist Needs: Richard Dawkins’ Ted Talk on Militant Atheism
I know what you’re thinking, “I must have won the heathen lottery, because Godless Mom is giving us two posts today” but you needn’t get...

Courtney Heard
Aug 18, 20141 min read


Every Atheist Needs: CGP Grey
I am a card-carrying nerd, a lover of learning, an absorber of information. I think the most exciting thing in the world is understanding...

Courtney Heard
Aug 18, 20142 min read


Every Atheist Needs: Dogma
Snootchie Bootchies Heathens! I trust you had a fantastic weekend, and you’re not too sore on this fine Monday morning. Today, I wanted...

Courtney Heard
Aug 11, 20142 min read


Follow Friday: My Buddy The Rat, Mr. McAfee & A Documentary Binge #FF
You may have noticed that I posted my Atheist Life Hacks yesterday, when I usually post them Friday. That’s because I want to do a more...

Courtney Heard
Jul 25, 20142 min read


Every Atheist Needs: Tierra De Animales
As you may or may not know, I’ve been in Mexico for the past two weeks. My family and I used to live there, my son was born there and my...

Courtney Heard
Jul 21, 20144 min read


Every Atheist Needs: American Jesus
If you’re not a fan of the greatness that is Bad Religion, you’re probably cocking your head right now, going, “dafuq, Mom? Why do we...

Courtney Heard
Jun 30, 20142 min read


Every Atheist Needs: The Unbelievers
After watching The Unbelievers and reading many of the reviews, it was pretty clear to me that most people misunderstood the...

Courtney Heard
Jun 9, 20142 min read
Every Atheist Parent Needs: Martha Speaks
One afternoon when I was cooking dinner and my little guy was surfing through Netflix Kids, I began to overhear words like “logic”,...

Courtney Heard
Jun 2, 20142 min read


Every Atheist Needs: Angels In America
This is, quite literally, the single most brilliant show I’ve ever seen. It’s more than outstanding, it goes beyond what anyone could...

Courtney Heard
May 26, 20142 min read
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