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Atheist Life Hacks: How To Lose Your Car To The Winchester Curse

Courtney Heard · · 13 min read

Atheist Life Hacks: How To Lose Your Car To The Winchester Curse

There’s really nothing quite like standing on the side of the Interstate just outside of San Jose, California, on your birthday, next to your unfortunately gold Ford Taurus that just sacrificed it’s transmission to the asphalt gods, 1500 kilometres from home and near penniless, to make you wonder if maybe curses do indeed exist.*inhale*The Winchester Mystery House was supposed to be my destination twice, on two separate road trips to California. If you haven’t heard of the Winchester Mystery Hou

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Atheist Life Hacks: Putting The Fear Of God Into A Mexican Cabbie

Courtney Heard · · 10 min read

Atheist Life Hacks: Putting The Fear Of God Into A Mexican Cabbie

If there’s one thing I cannot stand, it’s people telling me how dangerous Mexico is. Especially people who’ve either never been there, or only visited in the reclusive, fenced off all-inclusives that have nothing to do with real Mexico. Every time I head back to visit the town I lived in for two straight years, the town my brother lives in, the town my friends live in, I get earfuls from people telling me how dangerous it is and how I’m brave for going and taking my kids.Let me tell you somethin

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Atheists: Do You Apologize For The Religious?

Courtney Heard · · 4 min read

Atheists: Do You Apologize For The Religious?

Last Wednesday, I peeled myself off the beach in Playa Del Carmen to trudge to the corner store for some cold beers and a couple of Fantas for the kids. On the way back, as I crossed La Quinta (the main tourist strip in Playa), a Catholic procession made it’s way down the road. I stopped and waited, the scent of incense swirling around in the soupy air, and short Mexican women in white dresses and neon embroidery carried idols of saints next to robed altar boys and priests and trumpets and drums

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Atheist Life Hacks: How To Miraculously Escape The Jaws Of A Shark

Courtney Heard · · 7 min read

Atheist Life Hacks: How To Miraculously Escape The Jaws Of A Shark

I dunno if you’ve ever been to Thailand, but there are two things you ought to know about it. 1. They serve Thai rum in buckets. We’re talking regular sized buckets that you could dip your mop in. and 2. Thai rum, or Sang Som, happens to give you a very different hangover than other types of booze. It’s characterized by extreme goofiness and an inability to really move at all. It is often referred to as a “Hang Som”.I bring these points up because on Boxing Day 2006, I found myself snorkelling i

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Godless Mom is a secular lifestyle blog written by Courtney Heard, exploring evidence-based wellness, ethical living, philosophy, culture, and the realities of life without religion.

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