“When I’m struggling with the fear of my own death, or with grief over the death of someone I love, what comforts me most isn’t philosophies or ideas. It’s the presence of someone who loves me just sitting with me… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
“When I’m struggling with the fear of my own death, or with grief over the death of someone I love, what comforts me most… — Greta Christina Copy Share
Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves… — Greta Christina Copy Share
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore… — Greta Christina Copy Share
“the best way to deal with difficult and painful emotions is to stop trying to fix them and just let myself feel them. When… — Greta Christina Copy Share
“Let’s say that Person 1 thinks their hair dryer is telling them to shoot every redhead who gets on the 9:04 train. And let’s… — Greta Christina Copy Share
“Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.” — Greta Christina Copy Share
Religion is a belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world - A belief in forces that are… — Greta Christina Copy Share
Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents,… — Greta Christina Copy Share
“Death sucks, and premature death sucks worse. But it’s part of the package deal of getting to be alive. It happens because you, and… — Greta Christina Copy Share
“Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends the conversation.… — Greta Christina Copy Share
If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your… — Greta Christina Copy Share
We need to care about reality more than we care about what we want to be true about it. — Greta Christina Copy Share
Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry… — Greta Christina Copy Share
“if people believe in infinite bliss in the afterlife, they’ll be more willing to accept an appalling degree of oppression and injustice in this… — Greta Christina Copy Share
