Surly Amy sells secular ceramics by the skeptics' symposium (video)

October 9, 4:27 PMSecularism ExaminerPaul Fidalgo

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Before the close of the Atheist Alliance International 2009 convention in Burbank, I had a chance to get a quick chat with Amy Davis Roth, who had on display all her godless wares from Surly-Ramics (I bought my wife the "Talk Nerdy to Me" necklace).

I asked her about what inspired her art, and what pieces seem to be drawing the most attention from infidels.

Amy also blogs at Skepchick, and I recommend you check out her latest post on what it means to be a skeptic versus being an atheist. She writes:

I had always assumed that atheists arrived at their views by way of a critical thought path. Utilization of logic and reason had concluded that this type of magical thinking was absurd and that science and more specifically, the scientific method could be and should be used to explain the world around us and used to make decisions to the best of our ability. What I realized at this event is that a large portion of atheists have become so in a reactionary sense. They have realized for a multitude of different, sometimes logical, sometimes emotional reasons that religion is not for them, and that is where they have stopped along the critical thought path.

Check out the rest of this post here, and browse her product line here.

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