The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life - Paperback

by Greta Christina (Author)

So you're an atheist. Now what? The way we deal with life--with love and sex, pleasure and death, reality and making stuff up--can change dramatically when we stop believing in gods, souls, and afterlives. When we leave religion--or if we never had it in the first place--where do we go? With her unique blend of compassion and humor, thoughtfulness and snark, Greta Christina most emphatically does not propose a single path to a good atheist life. She offers questions to think about, ideas that may be useful, and encouragement to choose your own way. She addresses complex issues in an accessible, down-to-earth style, including: Why we're here Sexual transcendence The meaning of life The meaning of death Frivolity Sensuality How humanism helps with depression -- except when it doesn't Stealing stuff from religion Why atheism demands social justice Different ways to be a good person Joy and much more. Aimed at new and not-so-new atheists, questioning and curious believers, Christina shines a warm, fresh light on the only life we have.

Author Biography

Greta Christina is the author of Coming Out Atheist, Why Are You Atheists So Angry?, and Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More, and is editor of Paying for It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients. She is on the speaker's bureaus of the Secular Student Alliance and Center for Inquiry, and is a regular contributor to AlterNet, Free Inquiry, the Humanist, and Salon. She has contributed to the Chicago Sun-Times, Ms., On Our Backs, Penthouse, Skeptical Inquirer, and anthologies including Everything You Know About God Is Wrong and three volumes of Best American Erotica. She lives in San Francisco.