Atheist Xmas List: Number 1. Two Round-Trip Tickets to Vegas (and other reader-generated ideas)

I asked my lovely readers to choose the gift that should be NUMBER ONE on the Top Ten Atheist Xmas List Countdown . . . and this is what you geniuses came up with: 

×        Two round-trip tickets to Vegas 

×      The “Adventures of Lil Cthulhu,” a DVD that’ll keep kids at an atheist party entertained without the usual Rankin/Bass fare

×        A mix CD of songs your favorite atheists might love. Suggestions included: the Dar Williams song “The Christians and the Pagans” (which always makes me and my brother cry!) and Greg Brown’s beautiful “Lord, I Have Made You a Place in My Heart” (which ends with the last line “Oh Lord, I have made you a place in my heart and I hope that you leave it alone)

×        A collection of DVDs including   Religulous and  Life of Brian

×        An “It’s a Girl!” t-shirt (I mean, seriously, what would the world look like if Jesus had been a girl???) 

×        Darwin Fish Emblem for your favorite atheist’s car

×        Stainless Steel Wine Saver (If Jesus did turn water into wine, you’d probably want to be able to save it . . .)

×        Membership to the National Organization of Women (especially since the Catholic Bishops seem bent on waging a war against women’s access to safe and effective birth control and reproductive health!) 

×        A recording of you reading Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass due to the fact that it is a beautiful piece of human art that stresses the need for humility and the limits of human knowledge

×        Many readers pointed out books I had neglected to include on the list:

o      Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great

o      Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus

o      The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas by Robin Harvie and Stephanie Meyers

×       And last but obviously not least, an iPad.

 

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