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Diary Archives 2007
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November 3 I forgot to say yesterday, that I went to Barnes and Noble and bought the first book in the His Dark Materials series, The Golden Compass. I'm hoping my youngest will enjoy it; it sounds pretty cool and he doesn't care much for religion or religious people so he might go for it. I really don't get all the complaints about it from the Catholics, etc. Why is it okay to promote religion to kids, but not doubt and freethought? Why is it okay to tell kids atheism is bad, but not Christianity? Religious people can be such hypocrites. November 2 It's NaNoWriMo so I'm still busy. I'm writing one novel for NaNoWriMo and still finishing up the second in my kids' series. Sorry, but I'm having lots of fun without this place. August 22 Everything You Know About God is Wrong I'm on page 180! Woo hoo! It's a great book, too. I'm very impressed. And very proud. But now...off to the novel writing again. August 4, 2007 It seems to me that now that we're starting to come out and be more outspoken, which is a natural reaction to the increased invasiveness of bigoted Christianity in our society, atheists are definitely turning on each other. Even I'm doing it. So...maybe that's a good sign? Who knows? I purchased a coming out shirt so that I can join the party. I guess I am a radical at heart. Heck yeah, I am. I pretty much said so in my last post. Hello! If anybody would radicalize with me, I'd be out there in the streets with it. But I guess I'll wear a t-shirt instead. It's way cool. I really don't like t-shirts, because of the neck. I like v-necks. If this one is uncomfortable, I think I'll cut it. I hope it arrives next week so I can wear it to the Korn concert. I'm working on a kids fiction book right now, so I don't know how often I will blog. July 27, 2007 I think the truth is that I just don't care about atheism anymore. That's not exactly true, but I think it sums up what I'm feeling. I do still want there to be a strict wall of separation between government and religion; but it's not happening. And when I thought I was needed to rally the locals into action, I did my best, only to find that no one wanted to do anything, really, except whine about it. I've stood on a busy street all by myself carrying a sign. That was a very low point. And I've held a rally that was a total bomb. A terrible low point. I led a letter-writing campaign and at least had a few other people writing once in a while. I've tried to get people to write local officials, but very few did. One person complaining is just a gnat. And if she keeps at it, she just becomes a joke of a gnat. And even if she's got a name behind her, and a few other signatures, we're just gnats making asses of ourselves. The only thing that will change the status quo is large numbers of people willing to stand on street corners and attend rallies and write to officials. It's not happening. I've also been so very disappointed in people. I knew that the majority of people are stupid; but I thought that if I could find a community of atheists, we'd share in this enlightened kind of understanding of freedom for all. But it didn't turn out that way. I did find a few friends, but the majority of atheists are no different from most everyone else on the planet. They can be totally stupid, believe incredible bullshit, be rude and mean, think dogmatically, and have low moral standards, and be willing to restrict the freedoms of others because they think they are right and the others are wrong. It's okay, apparently, to deny religious freedom to people when they're wrong about what they believe. It's true. I have met atheists who really do mutter about limiting the freedoms of religious people. And I've met atheists who see nothing wrong in attempting to deny others their rights in many other areas too, not just religion. There are many atheists who see some kind of utopia where what they think is the norm and where all the things they think are moral and good are all okay, and anything they don't like or agree with is banned. There are atheists who think we should not allow Muslims into our country. Someone once complained to me that Islam is spreading and we had to stop it. I said, if people are going to convert to Islam, we can't stop them. She was appalled. So, the reality is that I just don't give a shit anymore. I don't want to deal with it anymore. There is no atheist community. If there were, I'd be outcast, just like I am with every other group. I just don't fit in. But I'm finding that not to be such a bad thing after all. June 24, 2007 Well, I wrote the novel and it sucked. So I rewrote it and it still sucked. So I printed out the two (yes...that's 2) pages of it that I liked and now I'm figuring out how I can make a novel out of them. Russ Kick's newest book is due out this month! It's called Everything You Know About God is Wrong. Wouldn't it be totally amazing if I am actually IN it? I think I am. I might be. But I thought the book was just going to be a bunch of nobody's like me. Richard Dawkins is in it! So, I figure I must not be. But what if I am? I don't even want to think about it. So, anyway, I'm still here. Thanks to everyone who emails me to say hello and chat. I'll try to keep blogging. But I'm too happy right now. I mean, you don't want to hear happy, right? January 19, 2007 Things are good this way. After my wonderful revelation of December, I feel a greater understanding of people and a sense of peace with myself. I will have to spend a lot more time on my unadvertised blog on which I can vent anger and frustrations and say what I really think...seeing as I can't actually be myself anywhere else. We had a wonderful Christmas without any Christ in it, which is how it's always been for me. SCFA had a fabulous Solstice Party. And we've made some great plans for 2007. I recently discovered that my book is being used as "cultural contrast" in a course on religion at a Christian college. Pretty cool. That must be why sales were so high last September. My husband bought me a beautiful ring for Christmas and I've just spent several minutes admiring it. I must be terribly materialistic. But it is gorgeous. I hope I don't spend all of February staring at my finger instead of writing the novel. Oops. There I go again. So there you have it. I've been lulled into happiness by some pretty rocks, people! I've lost my ambition for secularizing the U.S. Well, we all could see it coming I suppose. :) |