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One Year of Godlessgirl!
Jan 13th
Photo by Sarah McGee
Godlessgirl.com has been live to the world for one whole year! Every single cliché about time passing you by, flying, or otherwise moving swiftly applies here. When I decided to create this blog, I was certain I would become some sort of internet phenom, bursting onto the blogging scene with something new and different that would charm the readers into subscribing, commenting, and loving me into online stardom.
A girl’s gotta dream, right? As I discovered after beginning Godlessgirl.com, I am only one rather unremarkable voice within a chorus of thousands. I gathered no fame, no large following, and (I am rather surprised to say) no hate mail. Am I disappointed? No. I’m thrilled to have a community around me of writers, thinkers, and friends whom I admire and enjoy. I especially want to send a shoutout to my tweathens! Thank you for being there for me and supporting my copious rants, links, updates, and musings. I may never be someone truly remarkable, but I know this blog has helped me make the startling and stuttering transition from “newborn angry closet atheist” to “more relaxed ready to come out atheist”. I’m on my way!
Thank you all for reading, commenting, and being a part of my life! Let’s continue to converse and know each other better. Please drop me a note anytime or ask me anything.
Year One Highlights
Let’s Trade Links!
Jan 5th
Is your secular/atheist/skeptic/scientific blog/resource/website not featured on my links page? Let’s fix it!
1) Write a comment below that links to your website or a site you reommend.
2) Describe the site briefly so other readers will want to click and give you traffic.
3) Press submit.
3a) You have now brewed your own Instant Awesome™!
I will check it out and make sure it fits into one of the 7 link categories:
- Fun & media
- Godless Blogs
- Organizations & community
- Politics
- Religion
- Resources
- Science
If you feel so inclined, I’d appreciate a link back to Godlessgirl.com, but that is entirely up to you.
Ye Olde Disclaimer: I post sites at my discretion. If you only diary your burned calories of the day, haven’t posted any content in a long time, or have the general attitude of a diaper rash, you probably won’t get linked.
The Original Godless Girl
Oct 23rd
The Godless Girl was a rebel, promoting science and secularism in her university. She passed out fliers proclaiming “Man made God!”, and lead a group called The Godless Society. School authorities attempted to stop the “blasphemous” behavior, and eventually this girl was sent to reform school. After a harrowing experience in solitary confinement, she eventually escaped. In a surprising twist, she converted, accepting Jesus as her savior.
Well, at least that’s the plot of the 1929 silent film The Godless Girl, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. When I was searching for a domain name to house my heathen bloggy bits, I stumbled on this movie. After reading the charged plot and, frankly, loving the alliteration of the name, I took the moniker for myself. The film illustrates plainly how atheists have been vilified in society. The introduction reads:
It is not generally known that there are Atheist Societies using the schools of the country as their battleground — attacking, through the Youth of the Nation, the beliefs that are sacred to most of the people. And no fanatics are so bitter as youthful fanatics.
Battleground! Attacking sacred beliefs! Fanatics! Gee, tell me how you really feel. Check out the first 5 minutes of The Godless Girl below:
Look Ma, New Stuff!
Sep 22nd
I’ve enjoyed the previous look of GodlessGirl.com for some months now. I liked the color scheme, the amount of info I could pack into three columns, and it made me feel less like a slave to wordpress/blogger blah design I keep seeing all over the place.
However, Being the chick of change that I am, this could not last. I like bright and shiny too much to stick with old and busted. It got too cluttered, required too much hard-coding, and I wanted more space to spread out.
Enter: New themey goodness: two columns, no clutter, more automation for my lazy arse, and I just plain dig it.
Also new:
- A contact form. Stalk me!
- A dedicated links page. Stalk someone else!
- A new way to share this yakkity yak with the world (see below)!
- More Exclamation points!!
So let me know what you think, ask me some burning questions with the Talk Back form, and go visit some of the great godless websites out there on teh interwebs. Cheers!
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