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Follow Friday: An Atheist Punk, Pete Finch & Where To Get Your News

Courtney Heard · · 1 min read

Follow Friday: An Atheist Punk, Pete Finch & Where To Get Your News

Happy last Friday before schools starts! Wooot!Today I am releasing a much higher quality video than my previous ones, so be sure you are subscribed to me on YouTube so you can see it. Click here. You can also become my Patron on Patreon to help me make more and betterer and the bestest videos. Click here to do that.This week, I want you to follow @atheist_punk666 – this guy is a prolific meme creator and is married to drop dead gorgeous (I may be a little biased being as we look alike) Mama A.

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Atheist Life Hacks: How To Become A High School Dropout

Courtney Heard · · 9 min read

Atheist Life Hacks: How To Become A High School Dropout

My blood may run thick with poutine, but Mommy’s heart is partially True Blue Aussie. Two separate years of my life were spent down under, and you don’t really walk away from that much Vegemite without feeling like a little bit of you belongs there.My Mom was an elementary school teacher for 30 years. She’s retired now, but as a teacher, she was eligible to take part in the teacher’s international exchange program. The program found your family a match in some other Commonwealth country, and org

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14 Ways To Destroy Religion With Your Kids

Courtney Heard · · 8 min read

14 Ways To Destroy Religion With Your Kids

*Blank stare*So, I read this.Don’t look at me like that. You know I can’t help myself.Interestingly, there are some good points in Natasha’s post. Actually, there are some brilliant points. Credit where credit is goddamned due, no holy. However, Natasha ruins the whole thing in her second point.Oh, but let me show you how.Mrs. Crain says,At an age-appropriate level, we discussed how some people just don’t want to believe in God because they want to live without any (moral) rules; how some people

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Atheist Absurdities: Yes, This Man Is Actually Free To Roam Without His Big Boy Pants

Courtney Heard · · 6 min read

Atheist Absurdities: Yes, This Man Is Actually Free To Roam Without His Big Boy Pants

Welcome to the Carnival, heretics. I barely survived this one.What I’ve just read was such an assault on my mind, that I actually had to take a break while writing what follows so as not to actually contract the stupid seeping from this Fox Nation article by Ben Carson. Ben Carson is not only a grade A skeeball prize, he should be in fucking solitary at Sing Sing. The man is not well, not in any sense of the word.Ben’s horseshit tirade about the military removing Bibles from their hotel rooms by

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Your Stories of Atheism: Shaking Off Old Shackles

Courtney Heard · · 4 min read

Your Stories of Atheism: Shaking Off Old Shackles

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 an ex-7th Day Adventist, Summer:I was born into a very conservative religious household of biblical literalists (7th day Adventists). Ever since young I was taught the bible, but instead of a loving God, I saw the unspeakable horrors that happened to people who disobeyed God.
I

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Follow Friday: Ethical Bob, The Armoured Skeptic & God Swill Ministries

Courtney Heard · · 1 min read

Follow Friday: Ethical Bob, The Armoured Skeptic & God Swill Ministries

Happy Friday Godless Gang, So, this week saw the beginning of my atheist videos on YouTube. I got a lot of great feedback, and some wonderful constructive criticism. Here’s one thing: I ruined my HD camera in Mexico over the summer and have to resort to my webcam which shits the bed. My trip to Mexico for my brother’s wedding emptied our pockets, so I have to wait until we catch back up to get a better quality camera. At which point, I will definitely make way better quality vids. In the meantim

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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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Courtney Heard · · 1 min read

Why I Am An Atheist

You all have sent in so many stories of how you came to identify as an atheist, so I thought it was time to share my own story. This was totally a spur of the moment thing. In the future, I hope to be able to do higher quality videos for you guys. If you want to see future videos, make sure you’re subscribed at my YouTube Channel, which is still a work in progress: Godless Mom’s YouTube Channel So, here’s my story about why I am an atheist. I made it in video format:You can submit your stories o

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Hell Has Frozen Over, Godless Mom Agrees With A Christian Blogger… Sort Of

Courtney Heard · · 8 min read

Hell Has Frozen Over, Godless Mom Agrees With A Christian Blogger… Sort Of

Parenting be hard, yo.Well, thank you Mommy Obvious.Sorry. It’s hump day. My mind is elsewhere. It’s true, though. I thought I knew it was hard before I had a kid, and then I had one. No one prepares you, no one can prepare you for how ludicrously hard it is. By the time your kid is five, you look at Chris Hadfield manipulate the Canadarm to repair a part of the International Space Station, and think, that ain’t shit. If you can get my kid to put on his shoes, I might be impressed.Naturally, I r

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Jesus: Mad, Bad or God?

Courtney Heard · · 3 min read

Jesus: Mad, Bad or God?

I want to preface this by saying that I love Hemant Mehta and his totally positive attitude toward atheism. He’s truly a friendly face and not hostile at all. It’s people like him who will successfully bring more theists into the light of reality, because he’s not too busy getting their back up first. He just makes sense, and he does it smiling, and calmly. He has all the same attributes I adore in Sam Harris. As I said in this post, he’s cooler that a bike rack in Fargo in January.That said, I

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This Rabbi Says Atheists Make 3 Mistakes – Do You Agree?

Courtney Heard · · 5 min read

This Rabbi Says Atheists Make 3 Mistakes – Do You Agree?

There’s a rabbi, a priest and a Mormon blogger at HuffPost. I know that sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s the truth. Often, the triumvirate of nonsense write blog posts that conflict with all rational thought, and today we’re going to look at one such post. It’s all about mistakes atheists make. This one is written by the Rabbi, so I can’t even use my arsenal of names for fundie Christians. I’m going to do my best here though, to try and find some funny names for our shmaltzy shlemie

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Every Atheist Needs: Richard Dawkins’ Ted Talk on Militant Atheism

Courtney Heard · · 1 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 all sweaty over it. Just simmer down. I’m giving you a second post because I love you guys and I found a sliver of extra time to give you a little something extra.Although, I can hardly take credit for this.If you’re any sort of atheist, you’ve likely seen this before. However, more and more people have been talking to me about how new to atheism they are, so 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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