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Guest Post: An Atheist in High School

Courtney Heard · · 5 min read

Guest Post: An Atheist in High School

GM Note : This is a guest post from Ryan, who’s perspective on being an American atheist in high school is extremely valuable. Let’s boost and support the atheist kids out there! Follow Ryan on Twitter here: @RAtheistH


Hello there my fellow godless ones! My name is Ryan (@RAtheistH on Twitter). I am a high school freshman in a small town in rural Pennsylvania, I like to refer to it as a little mini Bible belt. Most of the people in this area are Christian. Out of a student body of 500, I know

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Your Stories Of Atheism: Diversity In Shedding God

Courtney Heard · · 5 min read

Your Stories Of Atheism: Diversity In Shedding God

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 first one is short and sweet and pretty much exactly the same as my own story. It comes from Mitch:I was born atheist – as, incidentally, was everyone – and nothing’s ever happened to change that.
That’s all.Here’s another quick one from Dan,I read a lot as I kid. I was indoctrinated as a Roman Catholic. I r

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Why I Don’t Think Anyone Truly Believes In God

Courtney Heard · · 6 min read

Why I Don’t Think Anyone Truly Believes In God

Before I jump right into this hypothesis of mine, I want to make a few things clear.First, Godless Mom is not an authority on either psychology or any sort of science. If I had to pick a topic to say I am any sort of an authority on, it would be the accumulation of drool while Google image searching Alexander Skarsgård or maybe how to use the retweet button on Twitter. Something like that. I’m not an authority on anything. What follows are simply my own assumptions, which I base on my own experi

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Here’s Where You Can Stick Your Bible After You Take An Atheist To The Sistine Chapel

Courtney Heard · · 2 min read

Here’s Where You Can Stick Your Bible After You Take An Atheist To The Sistine Chapel

When you open a blog post with, “Not trying to start a fight here, but this probably will.”, you’ve already lost. You’ve lost at life, you’ve lost any right to call yourself a writer, and you should lose the privilege of posting to the Chicago Now Blog. This is just the absolute most mindless, uncreative and useless opening line of any blog post, ever, including the tried and tested, “Sorry I haven’t written for a while.” horseshit. I may be an atheist, but I am a writer before that, and this sh

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Guest Post: How Two Different Parenting Approaches Still Led To Atheism

Courtney Heard · · 5 min read

Guest Post: How Two Different Parenting Approaches Still Led To Atheism

GM Note: This is a guest post from @WJHamel – if you would like to guest post on godlessmom.com, please contact me.


My bend toward atheism kicked in around the age of 17, if not earlier. It was solidified for me by the age of 18, for certain. I did not become a parent for the first time until the age of 27. It was a conflict for me, for certain, for a number of reasons, not the least of which were theological in nature. Parenthood revealed for me aspects of myself that I thought I’d al

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Your Stories of Atheism: Seeing The Dark

Courtney Heard · · 13 min read

Your Stories of Atheism: Seeing The Dark

GM Note: This is a guest post from Two Cult Survivor – If you would like to guest blog at godlessmom.com, you can contact me. Thank you, Two Cult Survivor!


I was born into a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and it never occurred to me to be anything else. As a child, I never considered “other religions,” and never fully realized that people held different views about God, Jesus, right and wrong. By the time I first heard the claim that the Jehovah’s Witnesses were a cult, I was no longer an acti

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Atheist Life Hacks : What To Do When A Buddhist Cops A Feel

Courtney Heard · · 5 min read

Atheist Life Hacks : What To Do When A Buddhist Cops A Feel

It was just barely 1992. My family and I had just spent two days traveling on boats, buses, taxis and planes to get from Koh Samui, Thailand to Bali, Indonesia. At about 2 o’clock in the morning we finally arrived at the regal sounding Rama Palace in Kuta Beach, Bali. It was pitch dark and the night staff was there to greet us and drag our luggage around for us and cram us in a bungalow, like a small house, stuccoed and a roof with turned up corners, in case you didn’t know you were in Asia. Bar

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More Questions For Atheists and This Time, They’re Gonna Hurt

Courtney Heard · · 6 min read

More Questions For Atheists and This Time, They’re Gonna Hurt

I have officially found the absolute worst list of questions for atheists ever. Every question is loaded, every question is leading and the author of this list is unaware of how absolutely unclever he is, in spite of an evident puffed out chest of pride. So let’s tear the fucker a new one, shall we? Grab a stress ball, some Jägermeister and a helmet and we’ll jump right the fuck in.1. Are you absolutely sure there is no God? If not, then is it not possible that there is a God? And if it is possi

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25 Little Known Facts About Godless Mom

Courtney Heard · · 6 min read

25 Little Known Facts About Godless Mom

In recent days, I’ve been asked a lot of personal questions from some of my readers. I’m taking this as a sign that y’all wanna know more about me so I’m gonna fill you in on some GM trivia. Here are 25 things about me you may not have known already:1. My name is Courtney. I was named after a character in a movie that I’ve yet to see, nor can I remember the title of. I fucking love my name and always have.2. I’ve wanted to be a writer as long as I can remember. I keep lugging around a box full o

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Overcoming Sin With The One Minute Jeebot

Courtney Heard · · 2 min read

Overcoming Sin With The One Minute Jeebot

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and ribs, I’ve gone intertube mining and dug up some gold. His name is Dr. Bobby Conway! He is the most super cool guy of super cool guy land, the most dreamiest doctor dedicated to devotion, and a hipster on the highway to heaven. He is here to rescue your soul from the prying grasp of beelzebub, paint it all the colours in Pottery Barn and send it barreling into the open and waiting arms of He-Be-Jeeby himself.Which could just as easily describe a multicoloured shart

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Every Atheist Parent Needs: John Green

Courtney Heard · · 4 min read

Every Atheist Parent Needs: John Green

My stepdaughter is smart as hell. She’s far ahead of her years when it comes to most things, and she’s able to put together shit that even eludes me and her father. If you give her any sort of tech, she’ll have it mastered by the end of the day. She’s absolutely brilliant, but she hates school, she hates the idea of learning, and she most definitely hates words like, “science”, “history” and “math”.She doesn’t understand that half the things she loves and is great at, are mathematical in nature.

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Speaking in Tongues: More Than Gibberish, Less Than Language

Courtney Heard · · 10 min read

Speaking in Tongues: More Than Gibberish, Less Than Language

GM Note: This is a guest post from Two Cult Survivor – If you would like to guest blog at godlessmom.com, you can contact me. Thank you, Two Cult Survivor!


The headquarters of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) was about a two-minute drive from the office where I worked in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The foundation had, and still has, a longstanding challenge: a $1 million award to anyone who could demonstrate, under scientifically verifiable conditions, the existence of the supernatu

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