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Atheist Life Hacks: How To Get Chills From The Supernatural

Courtney Heard ¡ ¡ 4 min read

Atheist Life Hacks: How To Get Chills From The Supernatural

GM Note: In the spirit of Halloween, I thought I would tell you guys a more chilling story. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that I am an atheist because I have never had anything truly inexplicable happen to me that most would attribute to some supernatural force. I have. I have had plenty of strange and terrifyingly inexplicable things happen in my life, but it doesn’t and will never change the fact that just because I can’t explain it myself, does not mean it can’t be explained i

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3 Reasons Why #NormalizeAtheism Is A Good Thing

Courtney Heard ¡ ¡ 9 min read

3 Reasons Why #NormalizeAtheism Is A Good Thing

This past Sunday, Mark joined Paul from the Quranify Me podcast on Thought Prophets to debate the value of the hashtag. Paul had previously posted a video of his own on YouTube more or less discussing what he did not like about #NormalizeAtheism.Now, before I go any further, I feel it necessary to point out that I adore Paul and the fact that I disagree with him on this in no way diminishes the fact that he is top notch people and the sort of person you want around for life. Paul was the only pe

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Share My Wife: The Brand New Reason For Not Supporting Gay Marriage

Courtney Heard ¡ ¡ 8 min read

Share My Wife: The Brand New Reason For Not Supporting Gay Marriage

Aside from feeling a powerful urge to gouge your eyes out with a shredded Bud Light can while they talk, you wanna know the easiest way to tell if someone is a fucking idiot? Ask them to explain why they hold a certain opinion. An intelligent person will provide evidence. An idiot will drool all over more of their opinions to back up their first.This evil Christmas cracker certainly didn’t break that mold.Godless Mom isn’t scared by much. Things with 8 legs, losing a loved one and this note at

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Every Atheist Needs: Contact By Carl Sagan

Courtney Heard ¡ ¡ 2 min read

Every Atheist Needs: Contact By Carl Sagan

As an atheist, I had already considered Carl Sagan an absolute treasure, and someone who left both a massive mark and a gaping hole in our world. His calm but passionate demeanor, his sheer intelligence and his infectious love for unravelling nature’s mysteries made him an absolute one-of-a-kind. He passed his torch on to one of my favourite living people, Neil deGrasse Tyson and left us with a body of work that can only be described as epic and profound.Carl Sagan took the idea that you leave

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Atheist Noobs: How To Build A Secular Life

Courtney Heard ¡ ¡ 2 min read

Atheist Noobs: How To Build A Secular Life

Trying to find other like-minded people to befriend can be hard as a new atheist. I’ve been an atheist all my life, but I still experience this to some extent. Most recently, when I moved to the town I am in now this past March. It’s not necessarily something we all want to say up front to everyone we meet, both because it’s just one tiny part of who we are, and because saying you’re an atheist still seems to have enough shock value to send some people recoiling in disgust. While that shouldn’t

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Are You A Winner? Lawrence Krauss, Peter Boghossian & Sam Harris Books!

Courtney Heard ¡ ¡ 1 min read

Are You A Winner? Lawrence Krauss, Peter Boghossian & Sam Harris Books!

I know you’ve been waiting a while for this announcement, and I apologize for the wait – It took some time for the prizes to arrive.Before I let you know though, I have to thank Lawrence Krauss, Peter Boghossian, Simon and Schuster, Shelley Segal, Keith Hebden, Andy Hobson and Dan Dana for donating prizes and perks.While we didn’t come anywhere near making our goal for Mubarak, we were able to give him some money to help him get started somewhere safer than the Nigerian North.Please let me know

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Let’s Cook: How To Make Sure Your Kids Don’t Sell Drugs

Courtney Heard ¡ ¡ 6 min read

Let’s Cook: How To Make Sure Your Kids Don’t Sell Drugs

Warning: looking directly at this photo could turn you into a meth addict.I’m a bona fide TV nerd. Not the regular sort of TV: primetime cop show after cop show after cop show, special victims units and stalker patrol and homicide and missing persons and lost hamsters. None of that shit. You can have your Horatio and your Bones and all that and shove it up your ass. It’s crap. No, I’m talking about the HBO, AMC and Netflix shows that have taken television and turned it into, in my opinion, a mor

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Every Atheist Needs: Confessions Of An Innocent Man

Courtney Heard ¡ ¡ 2 min read

Every Atheist Needs: Confessions Of An Innocent Man

Faith is, very simply, a belief in something without any proof. A theocracy is powered, at its highest levels, by ideas for which there is no evidence. The value placed on faith in such a society, seeps into every aspect of day-to-day life. It strips otherwise intelligent citizens of their critical thought and devalues truth, and when the truth is no longer important to an entire society, things like the events in this book happen. Repeatedly, unendingly, until faith is kicked out and reason re

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Your Stories of Atheism: Zombies and Frauds

Courtney Heard ¡ ¡ 6 min read

Your Stories of Atheism: Zombies and Frauds

This is an ongoing series featuring your stories of how you came to identify as an atheist. If you want to send me your story, you can submit it here. To read past stories, click here.Our first story this week, comes from Brendan. We know him as Prototype Atheist and he can be followed at @ProtoAtheist: As a child, I was raised in the Catholic faith, but was generally skeptical of the doctrine as I grew older. The congregation reminded me of zombies as they droned on each Sunday with their pre-r

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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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