Merry (Early) Christmas

I may or may not post again over the holidays, so I thought I'd go ahead and share my favorite Christmas song with you guys. I think you'll find it atheist friendly.



Have a happy holiday if that's your thing. If not, have a good week.

Happy Halloween

Merry Mythmas, Everyone!

Pretty Much How I Feel

by the great George Hrab.

I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends

Thanksgiving is a couple days away and I wanted to make this post live before I get gravy all over my keyboard. Thank you for reading. I sincerely mean it. I’ve written other blogs in the past covering different subject matter, but it wasn’t until Deity Shmeity that I’ve been completely engaged in my own material. Miraculously, other people seem engaged as well, and I don’t even believe in miracles.

I’ve read a number of other sites promoting my stuff unsolicited. The unsolicited bit is what really warms my heart. All too often in the blogging world favors quid pro quo. The friends I’ve made in the atheist community care about spreading an honest assessment of reality above all personal notoriety. I’d like to thank a few blog regulars personally.

My number one commenter in both quality and quality is Hausdorff. In addition to providing his own content for Deity Shmeity, he is one of my Muses for the content I provide. Every time I think I’m running out of blogging steam, I find that Haus’ Bible Blog is ratcheting it up! In the past couple months he has started a companion podcast and added the perspective of rival commentaries to his own. I can’t quit now, I’d be a chump.

Speaking of chumps, I also like Reason-Being. (j/k, RB) Some call him Johnny Reason, others Logical Being, but whatever you call the author of Reason-Being.com, he is another clear favorite. He is the first atheist blogger I digitally met, but not the last. He’s introduced me to so many interesting infidels that it inspired my atheist interview series. His blog is an inspiration in it’s own right, and by inspiration I mean that I’ve stolen a bunch of ideas from it.

The Wise Fool is too smart to be contained by one blog and it shows. Thankfully he spreads the intellectual wealth to my comments regularly.

Vjack lends credibility to Deity Shmeity by simply offering a loose association to Atheist Revolution. (I’m on his blogroll.) It’s a site with so much cred, even theists don’t hate it...usually.

Bitchspot is a more recent favorite of mine. His posts challenge me in ways some of the others don’t and have inspired a more biting criticism in my own writing.

Now I must decide to continue listing names thereby cheapening the few I’ve already mentioned, or sign off with a non-committal blanket statement. I choose the latter. To all those who have taken the time to do interviews for Deity Shmeity, I thank you. Your time has provided value to my little corner of the web. The interviews are on hiatus for a while, but I will be posting a “turn-the-tables” interview in which each of my friends listed have submitted questions. I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season, no matter which weird belief your holiday was originally based. :-)

The Atheist's Get Out of Halloween Free Card

Halloween parties can be a lot of fun, but they aren't all created equal. If you have a lame masquerade on your horizon, may I offer an easy out.

Say that you are going as God. It's the costume trump card that will save you a hassle and, by all rights, should win the costume contest.* How can anyone beat the Almighty? If anyone questions your legitimacy, just remind them that no one can prove that you weren't there. Not being seen or heard is simply staying in character.

*Seriously though, don't count on winning that contest.