The Way of the Heathen

“A glorious celebration.” Dan Barker, author, Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning“Greta’s hallmark insights, biting humor, and straight-talk will lead you through some of the most important issues and practices shaping what it means to be an atheist in the 21st century … I recommend it highly.” Anthony B. Pinn, author, Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist“Another bright gem from Greta Christina – an engaging, conversational, thoughtful, frank, funny, and ever timely exploration of life lived well without religion.” Phil Zuckerman, author, Living the Secular Life“Quick-paced irresistible logic laced through with Greta Christina’s humor, practical compassion, and love of life.” Valerie Tarico, Ph.D., author, Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light“What I take away most is Greta Christina’s nuanced, down-to-earth, around the breakfast table with a cup of coffee manner of speech … An easy to read book that will challenge you in the most unexpected ways, whether you are a secularist, believer or somewhere in between.” Bridgett Crutchfield, President and founder, Black Nonbelievers of Detroit“If you are a newcomer to atheism in America in the twenty-first century you will be glad to spend time with Greta Christina … Her candor is one of the particularly strong aspects of this much-needed work.” Jennifer Michael Hecht, author, Doubt: A History“This is the perfect book for anyone who has gotten a taste of skepticism and now hungers to make even more meaning out of their brief existence.” Zack Ford, LGBT Editor, ThinkProgress.org

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 ChicagoSun-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.