Greta Christina

Picture of Greta Christina in 2010.

Greta Christina is a popular atheist, feminist blogger at Freethoughtblogs. In addition, she is a atheist speaker and author. She is in a same-sex marriage with a woman named Ingrid.

For years, Greta Christina was overweight and very much agreed with the fat acceptance movement and largely dismissed the abundant medical science data indicating the negative health effects of being overweight. Her fat acceptance beliefs were altered though when she had a serious knee problem which prompted her to lose her excess weight.

Within the feminist movement, there a branch of feminism called fat feminism. The lesbian population in the Western World has a significantly higher rate of obesity (see: Lesbianism and obesity). For more information please see: Atheism and the fat acceptance movement and Atheism and obesity

Today, Christina has a more limited agreement with the fat acceptance movement, but still considers herself apart of it.

Greta Christina wrote in 2010:

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And while I have huge disagreements with the fat acceptance movement -- especially with its more extreme denialist edges -- I still think many of its ideas are important, and perceptive, and entirely fair. I have serious disagreements with FA, but I am still very much shaped by it, and I would like to think of myself as an ally of the movement, and even as a member of it. It's just that they don't feel the same way about me. Or about other fat people who choose to lose weight.

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Greta Christian on atheist movement participants and anger

See also: Atheism and anger

Greta Christina told the journalist Chris Mooney on the Point of Inquiry podcast, "there isn't one emotion" that affects atheists "but anger is one of the emotions that many of us have ...[it] drives others to participate in the movement".

Atheist Greta Christina on atheism and sexuality

See also: Atheism and sexuality

Greta Christina declared:

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Personal revulsion should not translate into moral revulsion… If we don’t like porn and our sexual partner does, we don’t get to say, “Porn upsets me, therefore you’re a bad person for enjoying it.” If we want our relationship to be monogamous and our sexual partner doesn’t, we don’t get to say, “Non-monogamy freaks me out, and you’re a bad person for wanting it.”

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For more information, please see:

• Atheism and pornography

• Atheism, polyamory and other immoral relationships