an atheist practicing Christianity for Lent, and a fundraising blog button I made for her

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My friend Dy-Anne is an atheist, but she liked the idea of taking a set period of time to give something up, like many Christian do during Lent. So she posted on Facebook,
 So I may not be catholic (or a theist at all) but I see Lent as the opposite of Christmas. So what should I give up this year?
And another friend of ours - who is a Christian and a journalist - suggested
So I am TOTALLY not joking, but I think it would be awesome if you gave up Atheism for lent. I know sounds crazy, and obviously you can't just not be one, but I think it would be interesting if you like went to church and immersed yourself in the culture and blogged about the whole thing. I REALLY think that would be an interesting social experiement. And especially since Lent has a religious background, it owuld be fitting.
After some back and forth throughout comments, Dy decided to give it a go. She's not giving up atheism for Christianity because her belief (or lack thereof) hasn't changed. However, she's giving up the culture of atheism (discussion forums, books, activities that she associates with atheism) and adopting the culture of Christianity (attending church, reading the Bible, praying even though she considers it to be talking to the air, and so on) for the season Lent. And she's blogging about it; check it out at A Temporary Christian.

As her blog started to get a lot of hits, she asked me if I could give her something to put on her blog that would link to our Paypal account, in hopes that her blog could raise money for our adoption.

So I made this button for her.


If you'd like to add one to your page, here's the code:

If you have a Wordpress blog, that code above won't work for you. Here are the instructions you should use instead:


I have another post coming this evening tomorrow, in which I'll be providing a breakdown of our adoption costs, but I wanted to share this now since Dy-Anne's blog started up today!