Greta Christina Has a New Book Out.

Greta Christina is all about hating religion and the religious and anyone not just like her, so she has a plan to get more people to be like her. Hemant Mehta "the Friendly Atheist" has printed a blurb from Christina's new book, "Coming Out Atheist". Christina's entire point is to "combat religion", as Hemant says, by denying yourself to religion. Here's Greta:

"Religion perpetuates itself through social consent.

And coming out atheist denies it that consent.

This, in my opinion, is one of the best reasons for atheists to come out. You don’t have to argue with people about their beliefs. If all you do is tell people “I’m an atheist,” you’re denying religion your social consent.

And as the years and decades roll on, this will have a snowball effect. The more of us there are who deny consent to religion, the harder it’ll be to ignore difficult questions about it, or to ignore the option of atheism. And as it gets harder to ignore difficult questions about religion, more people will become atheists… and as more people become atheists and come out about it… oh, you get the picture."

Sorta like a pyramid scheme, she thinks. But she lives in an atheist bubble, where she can't see the normal reaction to atheists:

"Oh, another person who has no fixed moral principles. Great."

Christina's atheism is functional and practical: she can't stand any criticism of her lesbian lifestyle, and she never neglects to use the term homophobia as often as she can. This time it's "faith healing and homophobia and stoning adulterers" which she connects to her opposition.

I am actually all for theists looking deeply and inquiringly into their beliefs. There is no need for believing blindly. That's for atheists, who cannot provide either any disciplined deductive logic or experimental empirical data which supports their claim of logic and evidence for their beliefs. Atheism starts with a void, empty of both logic and evidence as well as moral principles. From there, they make it up as they go. It's the Darwinian, inferential, story telling, inductive logic type of personal bias as truth. And that is all there is to Atheism.