Hey Guess What?

I'm an atheist! It's true. Want to find out more about my personal relationship to atheism? Sure you do! Why not start with this three part series I wrote for my main blog about why I am an atheist, and what it's like to be an atheist on Christmas in America.

For the record, Dan Trujillo, writer of Atheist Viagra is not, as far as I know, an atheist. This is because Atheist Viagra isn't so much about Atheism as it is attitudes about atheism (amongst other things). Atheist Viagra is a secular humanist play, rather than an atheist play. When I was growing up, the phrase "secular humanism" came up a lot. It was a fairly broad category that even religious people could be a part of!

Now that we are in the midst of the Third Great Awakening, I almost never hear the term "secular humanist" anymore. I hear a lot about atheism. I hear a lot about religious people. I hear "secularist" sometimes (always disparagingly). But I rarely hear the phrase secular humanism. I think this is because the reinjection of religious furvor into American Life has polarized us to the point where this common ground is less desired by people on all sides of the issue. This is a minor cultural calamity, and I think it is one of the things that the play addresses.