Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless (22 page)

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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, by Michael Shermer

Why Evolution Is True, by Jerry A. Coyne

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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, by Michael Shermer

First, last, and always: Ingrid.

I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Susie Bright, for lighting a fire under me and getting me to freaking well write this book already.

The worst mistake Ingrid ever made was telling me she’d been an editor at her college newspaper. As a result, she consistently gets drafted into unpaid proofreading and copy editing duties. She read through several versions of this book, and helped on every level from tiny typos to the vision thing. I owe her more than I can ever say.

Thanks to my cover designer, Casimir Fornalski. You nailed it.

Thanks to Ophelia Benson, Susie Bright, Richard Carrier, JT Eberhard, Ben Gamble, Russell Glasser, Chris Hallquist, Greg Laden, Adam Lee, Alan Sokal, Al Stefanelli, and Stephanie Zvan, for reading early drafts of the book and pointing me in good directions. Any mistakes are all of my doing and none of theirs.

Thanks to Amy and Rob Siders at 52 Novels, for their excellent work on formatting, and their patience with my endless questions about it. This self-publishing project would have been impossibly daunting without them.

Thanks to every single blogger in the Freethought Blogs network — and a special thanks to Ed Brayton and PZ Myers for creating it. I joined this network for professional advancement and to help advance our shared cause. I got a new family. It has been one of the best surprises of my life.

Thanks to AlterNet, and to my editors there, Tara Lohan and Tana Ganeva, for publishing my work and getting it read outside the atheosphere.

Thanks to my employers and colleagues Last Gasp, my day job, for their patience with my ever-shifting schedule, and for being an awesome bunch of brilliant and hilarious freaks.

I am enormously grateful to my blog readers. I get many of my best ideas from you. The Resource Guide was almost entirely crowd-sourced from you. And more to the point: You are the reason I do this.

And last, first, and always: Ingrid.

Greta Christina is one of the most widely-read and well-respected bloggers in the atheist blogosphere. She blogs at the cleverly named
Greta Christina’s Blog
, and is a regular contributor to the online political magazine,
AlterNet
. She was ranked by an independent analyst as one of the Top Ten most popular atheist bloggers, and her writing has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, including Ms., Penthouse, Skeptical Inquirer, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the anthology
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong
. She is editor of the
Best Erotic Comics
anthology series and of
Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients
, and is author of
Bending
, an erotic novella in the three-novella collection
Three Kinds of Asking For It
. She has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, skepticism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is on the speakers’ bureaus of the
Secular Student Alliance
and the
Center for Inquiry
. She tweets at @GretaChristina. She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid.

Why Are You Atheists So Angry?
99 Things that Piss Off the Godless
by Greta Christina

Copyright © 2012, Greta Christina

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Portions of this book were originally published on Greta Christina’s Blog,
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, and on AlterNet,
alternet.org
.

Cover design by Casimir Fornalski,
casimirfornalski.com
.