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Every Atheist Needs: CGP Grey

Courtney Heard · · 1 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 things, bringing clarity to them, solving mysteries. I pile books on my shelves with the lofty plan of reading each and every one of them and sucking up everything in them like a dry sponge being thrown into a pool. I love to read, I love to learn, and I love to figure out.Problems arose with this, however, when I started to take on more and more responsibilit

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Your Stories of Atheism: A Wife Teaches Us What Supportive Really Means

Courtney Heard · · 7 min read

Your Stories of Atheism: A Wife Teaches Us What Supportive Really Means

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.You can follow me on the following to be updated when new stories are posted: Our first story this week is from an ex-Christian named Kirsten:My story is not terribly interesting. I was born into a nominally Christian family. My parents never took me to church, but I had to go occasionally with my gran whenever

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Follow Friday: A Private Eye, Monicks and A Prototype

Courtney Heard · · 1 min read

Follow Friday: A Private Eye, Monicks and A Prototype

Happy Friday Heathens! This week has been incredible. I posted my first video last week about my new Patreon campaign and I’ve had nothing but positive response, even though it was literally thrown together at the last minute on a Friday night. You can check that out by clicking here. I had such a positive response that I am working pretty hard on making some vids for you guys (SO NOT MY FORTE) in the near future. I’ve even had my hubs write me a punk rock intro, which Atheist Andy has sung the

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Atheist Life Hacks: How To Protect Your Kids From Your Religious In-Laws

Courtney Heard · · 4 min read

Atheist Life Hacks: How To Protect Your Kids From Your Religious In-Laws

Godless Mom is lucky enough to have unbelievers as in-laws, and the only significant other I ever had who had religious parents was keeping them safely tucked away in a crumbling town in Iraq. I have never had to deal with preachy in-laws, but I can tell you that if I had to, Godless Mom wouldn’t make it easy on them.GM Disclaimer: Use of these methods could result in any or all of the following: Being disowned, shunning, loss of your significant other, and bad feelings.Here’s how I would deal w

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Oh, Captain… Goodbye Mr. Williams

Courtney Heard · · 2 min read

Oh, Captain… Goodbye Mr. Williams

You wanna know what? It’s okay to grieve over a celebrity. It is perfectly acceptable. It doesn’t make you simple or silly or sappy. It makes you a human being. When a recognizable face passes, choruses of heartless loners pipe up and ask why we mourn these celebrity deaths and not the thousands of people who die every day.I’ll tell you why.All the world has a fear of death, no matter what they say. No one looks death in the face and says, “fuck yeah!”. Even suicide bombers, and martyrs have an

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Every Atheist Needs: Dogma

Courtney Heard · · 2 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 to share with you my favourite Kevin Smith movie, Dogma. If you haven’t heard of this move, you should probably just hand in your atheist card and redo heathen orientation now. For shame.Dogma is not so much a movie as it is an assault on Catholicism that is so brutally hilarious, that even the Pope would have no choice but to pull the ol’ Popemobile over and la

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Your Stories of Atheism: An Atheist Lifer & Two Brave Ex-Believers

Courtney Heard · · 7 min read

Your Stories of Atheism: An Atheist Lifer & Two Brave Ex-Believers

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.This week, our first story is gut-wrenching and it’s from Angela:I was raised Catholic, and attended a Catholic elementary school. Because it was perceived to be a better-quality education, many non-Catholics also attended. One of those was my Protestant friend, Andrea. When we were both 7 years old, there was a fi

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Follow Friday: A Nigerian Unbeliever, Mr. Doe and The Atheist Minority

Courtney Heard · · 2 min read

Follow Friday: A Nigerian Unbeliever, Mr. Doe and The Atheist Minority

Happy Friday free thinkers!Before we get started on looking at some of my favourite online people, I wanted to remind you that I started a Patreon yesterday. You can see the ad for it in my sidebar promising you a dryer sheet in the mail. That’s just one of the super fun rewards you can get. You can also Skype me with video and I will stare at you, scowling, flipping the bird, saying nothing until you, unable to handle it anymore, exclaim, “You’re not normal, Courtney” and hang up.You know, fres

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Stupid Jeebot Questions: Why bother debating at all?

Courtney Heard · · 5 min read

Stupid Jeebot Questions: Why bother debating at all?

Twitter, as we know, is a ripe and fruitful ground for nothing but brilliance, education and high conversational standards. The words flame and butthurt and troll are scarce and lost amongst the intellectually elite. Our back and forths end wars, settle disputes and reduce crime rates. Twitter is what the United Nations wishes it could be. LOL. If only.No, Twitter is instead a bubbling froth of mental sewage on a good day. It should, indeed, be called “Troller” rather than Twitter, as it appears

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Your Stories of Atheism: Getting Answers From Nothing

Courtney Heard · · 4 min read

Your Stories of Atheism: Getting Answers From Nothing

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 is a short one from Hope:I grew up in a very religious household. Ever since I could remember, I was always told that I should forever love and believe in god. At around 12 years old I started to doubt god’s existence. I would waver between a nonbeliever to a believer – mainly because the

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Follow Friday: My Favourite British Mommy, A New Subreddit & A Secret Atheist Club

Courtney Heard · · 2 min read

Follow Friday: My Favourite British Mommy, A New Subreddit & A Secret Atheist Club

H-hello? Hi guys… *sheepish grin*. Happy Friday. I know I’ve been posting some depressing shit lately, and I just wanted to apologize. I chose the moving words of Forrest Gump to do this, so as he said, “Sorry I ruined your Black Panther party”. I think that says it all, no? Sometimes we have to talk about the not so pleasant as atheists. Face facts and be grown ups about it. I hope you still love me…Here are some incredible people and groups I love, and I think you should follow them.The first

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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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