The atheist's guide to Christmas /
Forty-two atheist celebrities, comedians, scientists and writers give their funny and serious tips for enjoying the Christmas season.
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New York :
HarperPerennial,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- STORIES. It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas / Ed Byrne ; Revenge of the Christmas spirit / Neal Pollack ; The real Christmas story / Jenny Colgan ; A child was born on Christmas Day / Emery Emery ; 110 Love Street / Catie Wilkins ; Losing my faith / Simon Le Bon ; Hark the herald villagers sing / Zoe Margolis ; The Christmas miracle event : a story / Evan Mandery
- SCIENCE. The sound of Christmas / Simon Singh ; The great bus mystery / Richard Dawkins ; Starry, starry night / Phil Plait ; The ironed trouser : why 93 percent of scientists are atheists (depending on whom you ask) / Adam Rutherford ; The Large Hadron Collider : a scientific creation story / Brian Cox ; How to understand Christmas : a scientific overview / Nick Doody
- HOW TO. How to have the perfect Jewish Christmas / Matt Kirshen ; How to have a peaceful pagan Christmas / Claire Rayner ; I'm dreaming of a green Christmas / Siân Berry ; How to stop worrying and enjoy Christmas / Mitch Benn ; How to decorate the outside of your house with lights and not have your neighbors hate you : a guide to turning your home into a festive something that is so bright it can be seen from space / Jon Holmes ; How to escape from Christmas / Andrew Mueller ; Gifts for the godless / Jennifer McCreight
- PHILOSOPHY. If God existed, would he have a sense of humor? / Charlie Brooker ; Unsilent night / Hermione Eyre ; Imagine there's a heaven / David Stubbs ; A happy Christmas / A.C. Grayling ; Beloved buzzkill / Allison Kilkenny ; Stay away from my goddamn presents / Jamie Kilstein ; The first honest Christmas round-robin letter / Julian Baggini ; There are no atheists in the White House / Paul Krassner
- ARTS. An atheist at the movies / David Baddiel and Arvind Ethan David ; A Christmas album / Simon Price ; Rockin' around the Christmas tree / Natalie Haynes ; God isn't real / Robbie Fulks ; The godless concerts / Robin Ince
- EVENTS. God trumps / Christina Martin ; Designing the atheist bus campaign / Graham Nunn ; The Little Atoms radio show / Neil Denny ; James Randi : the real Santa Claus / Sid Rodrigues ; A day in the life of a godless magazine / Caspar Melville and Paul Sims ; Front line in the war on Christmas / Andrew Shaffer.
