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Greta Christina
Greta Christina (born 1961) is an American atheist, blogger, speaker, and author.
Christina was born in Chicago in 1961. She graduated from Reed College in 1983. She legally changed her name in her twenties, dropping her family name[which?] and taking her middle name as her last name.
Christina has written for AlterNet, Free Inquiry, and The Humanist. She started writing her own "Greta Christina's blog" in 2005; it was later incorporated in to the Freethought Blogs network. In 2016 she co-founded The Orbit, which she described as "the first atheist media site founded explicitly to work on all forms of social justice". In 2009, Hemant Mehta at The Friendly Atheist ranked Christina's blog in the Top Ten most popular atheist blogs. She also created the "Atheist Meme of the Day" on Facebook.
She has been writing professionally since 1989, and has been a full-time freelance writer and speaker since 2012. Her writing about atheism has appeared in print in Skeptical Inquirer and the anthology Everything You Know About God Is Wrong, as well as in her own books Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why (2014) and Why Are You Atheists So Angry?: 99 Things that Piss Off the Godless (2012).
Speaking to Chris Mooney for a Point of Inquiry podcast in 2012, she stated that "there isn't one emotion" affecting atheists "but anger is one of the emotions that many of us have ...[it] drives others to participate in the movement". She said that there are many goals for the atheist movement – more separation of church and state, ending "bigotry against atheism", and for some, persuading people "out of religion", and that it is a "valid goal" to work towards a world without religion.
As a speaker, she is a member of the Speakers Bureau for the Secular Student Alliance and the Center for Inquiry. She was a speaker on the Diversity in Skepticism panel at The Amaz!ng Meeting in July 2011, the Reason Rally in 2012, and the 50th annual convention of American Atheists in 2013.
Rebecca Hensler founded the social media and internet support group 'Grief Beyond Belief' for grieving people who do not believe in God or an afterlife in 2011; she was encouraged to found it by Christina.
In 2013 Christina was named the International Team Honored Hero of the Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB). The Foundation's teams raise money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She is a past member of the Foundation Beyond Belief's Board of Directors.
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Greta Christina
Greta Christina (born 1961) is an American atheist, blogger, speaker, and author.
Christina was born in Chicago in 1961. She graduated from Reed College in 1983. She legally changed her name in her twenties, dropping her family name[which?] and taking her middle name as her last name.
Christina has written for AlterNet, Free Inquiry, and The Humanist. She started writing her own "Greta Christina's blog" in 2005; it was later incorporated in to the Freethought Blogs network. In 2016 she co-founded The Orbit, which she described as "the first atheist media site founded explicitly to work on all forms of social justice". In 2009, Hemant Mehta at The Friendly Atheist ranked Christina's blog in the Top Ten most popular atheist blogs. She also created the "Atheist Meme of the Day" on Facebook.
She has been writing professionally since 1989, and has been a full-time freelance writer and speaker since 2012. Her writing about atheism has appeared in print in Skeptical Inquirer and the anthology Everything You Know About God Is Wrong, as well as in her own books Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why (2014) and Why Are You Atheists So Angry?: 99 Things that Piss Off the Godless (2012).
Speaking to Chris Mooney for a Point of Inquiry podcast in 2012, she stated that "there isn't one emotion" affecting atheists "but anger is one of the emotions that many of us have ...[it] drives others to participate in the movement". She said that there are many goals for the atheist movement – more separation of church and state, ending "bigotry against atheism", and for some, persuading people "out of religion", and that it is a "valid goal" to work towards a world without religion.
As a speaker, she is a member of the Speakers Bureau for the Secular Student Alliance and the Center for Inquiry. She was a speaker on the Diversity in Skepticism panel at The Amaz!ng Meeting in July 2011, the Reason Rally in 2012, and the 50th annual convention of American Atheists in 2013.
Rebecca Hensler founded the social media and internet support group 'Grief Beyond Belief' for grieving people who do not believe in God or an afterlife in 2011; she was encouraged to found it by Christina.
In 2013 Christina was named the International Team Honored Hero of the Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB). The Foundation's teams raise money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She is a past member of the Foundation Beyond Belief's Board of Directors.