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This ad (featured above) which ran in Indiana for the last month was banned after “complaints from mostly religious people” helped contribute to a new official policy which allows the board to review controversial advertising. And it was then the board realized that term, “controversial,” was much too broad, board Chairman Chip Lewis said. “Lack [...]
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Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellectuals (part 2)
June 24th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke Shane writes in reply to this post, Hi Dan, long time reader first time commenter. Do you have any /empirical/ evidence that religious people are more credulous, more stupid on average than non-religious people of comparable education and similar sociology? If you do, I’d love to see it. But if you don’t have such empirical [...]
Posted in Atheism, Education, Epistemology, Ethics, Psychology, Religion 
Tags: Epistemology, Religion 
No Comments »“True” Christianity? (part 2)
June 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Njustus writes in the comments section of this post: I certainly stand in awe of your attempt to comprehensively define Christianity. It’s a burden I’m not sure I could give myself. I of course could offer a definition, but I’m not sure I could do so without revealing more about myself than any objective concept [...]
Objections To Religious Moderates and Intellectuals
June 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Marcus Brigstocke has a rant (which I used to have in this post in video form before it was taken down from YouTube. The end of the rant goes like this: Now I know that most religious folks are moderates and nice and reasonable and wear tidy jumpers and eat cheese like real people. And [...]
Posted in Atheism, Epistemology, Ethics, Hilarious, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion Tags: Epistemology, Philosophy, Religion No Comments »Hope
June 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke My colleague, Joshua Thomas has an excellent set of preliminary remarks on his views about hope on his blog, which I recommend you go check out. Here are a few highlights. First he distinguishes dreams as the objects or aims of our hopes, distinct from hope itself, which he takes rather to be related to [...]
Posted in Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Uncategorized Tags: Uncategorized No Comments »“True” Christianity?
June 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Yesterday, I excerpted from a blog post which discussed several books which make the case for an interpretation of biblical texts as not merely not homophobic but as positively homophilic. Granting for argument’s sake that this intriguing interpretation was a sound textual reading of the Bible, does that therefore make it the “best” way to [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Atheism, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Historical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Religion Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Religion No Comments »The Homophilic Bible? (And a Personal Gut Check)
June 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Adam Kotsko writes that Theodore Jennings’s forthcoming book, Plato or Paul?: The Origins of Western Homophobia completes a kind of trilogy on homophobia, consisting also of The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives in the New Testament and Jacob’s Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel. The strategy here is clear, aggressive, and [...]
Posted in Atheism, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Historical Ethics, Philosophy, Religion Tags: Philosophy, Religion No Comments »Freedom as a Power, Rather than as a Passive State
June 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Today, an excellent former student pushed me on the question of whether philosophy was more important than basic survival. I interpreted this question, at its core, to be whether freedom of thought is worth dying for. I think this because the right to philosophize for oneself is, at its core, the fundamental freedom of thought [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Ethics, News Discussion, Nietzsche, Philosophy Tags: Courage, Freedom, Freedom of Thought, Iran, Liberalism, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Politics, Power, Twilight of the Idols, Tyranny No Comments »Back in Blog
June 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke As the dates on the posts right below this one will show, I last blogged almost exactly a year ago. Fear not, this does not mean I’m a lazy or uncommitted blogger. Rather, I did not feel justified diverting writing energies away from my dissertation at the time. But now I am finishing up my [...]
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