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Archive for August, 2009
4 Chords, 36 Songs
August 31st, 2009 
Daniel Fincke Thanks for the link, Shane, feel better… Your Thoughts?
Some Awesome Stop Motion, Anyone?
August 31st, 2009 Daniel Fincke If you’re at all enamored of stop motion photography, you really should watch this video. If not, you may carry on with your morning. Thank you for your attention. Your Thoughts? (via The Daily Dish)
Daily Hilarity: Highlights Of The Best Worst Movie Ever Made
August 31st, 2009 Daniel Fincke A compendium of the classic, Troll 2, cheesy unintentional comedy does not come any cheesier than this. Your Thoughts?
Is Reason My “God” In Whom I Have “Faith?”
August 31st, 2009 Daniel Fincke A Christian friend recently told me we all have faith and that reason was my “god” in whom I had faith. Reason is not a ”god” in whom one has faith. That’s just false. Reason is a set of cognitive processes that are potentially truth-conducive. That’s IT. We are all, as rational beings subject to its [...]
Bukowski and Mouse
August 31st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Charles Bukowski, “The Genius Of The Crowd” there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally [...]
Posted in Arts, God, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos 
Tags: "The Genius Of The Crowd", Charles Bukowski, Modest Mouse, Poetry 
No Comments »Sunday Hilarity: Let There Be Botox
August 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I can’t stop giggling at this one: And for more of a “horror”-themed weird terribleness involving faces, there’s this bit of “can’t-avert-your-eyes” awfulness. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Hilarious, Religulous, Unintentional Comedy Tags: Cosmetic Surgery, Crass Commercialism, Crass Religiosity No Comments »Leviticus, Biblical literalism, and why it’s all drivel propagated by delusional bigots who need something, anything to validate their beliefs
August 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke by Sara Manasterska (Hello! I’m Sendai Anonymous, and this is my very serious post about Biblical literalism, in which I prove that it doesn’t exist. Take that, Biblical literalism! It really is serious, though. I actually surprised myself =_=) It’s always been rather vexing to me to listen to the self-proclaimed “Biblical literalists” prattle on [...]
Posted in Christianity, Featured, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Religion Tags: Biblical Literalism, Leviticus 5 Comments »Walter Sinnott-Armstrong On Morality Without God
August 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke From Philosophy Bites, comes Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Morality Without God. Sinnott-Armstrong is the editor of the spectacular series of volumes on moral psychology featuring essays featuring both philosophers and psychologists in interaction with each other. Now he has a new book out, Morality Without God. (via Atheist Media Blog) Your Thoughts?
Contra The Fine Tuning Argument
August 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke ZJ gives a kick ass, concise, precise, logically strong, awesomely robotically delivered refutation. Seriously, it’s brilliant and thorough and you really really really should watch it: (via Toomanytribbles) Your Thoughts?
Through Words Or Through Deeds?
August 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Hemant Mehtamakes the case that even more than strong debating points, atheists really need to draw people as “salt and light” if you will: Yes, there are arguments against any god’s existence and arguments against the truth of any religious text. We shouldn’t stop making them. But I don’t think these arguments, as logical as [...]
Amy Millan Covers Death Cab For Cutie (And I Review “My Favorite Book” By Stars)
August 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I could seriously listen to Amy Millan sing just about anything, so I don’t know if her new cover of Death Cab For Cutie’s “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” which you can stream here is actually any good (Pitchfork hated it and I often trust Pitchfork’s judgment more than my own), but I [...]
Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Subjectivity Which Claims Objectivity
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a previous post, I wrote the following of Rod Dreher’s decision to inculcate in his children a faithfulness that would safeguard their faith against intellectual faltering: I can say that it is utterly depressing you could be so self aware about inculcating your children to believe regardless of truth or falsity, to put faithfulness [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemology, Ethics, Faith, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Metaethics, Philosophy, Political Secularism, Religion, Secularism, Spinoza, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Deism, Experience of God, Ground of all being, Irrationalism, Kierkegaard, Knowing God, Objectivism, Personal God, Relativism, Rod Dreher, Subjectivism, Suicide Bombers 8 Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Corruption Of Children’s Intellectual Judgment
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Earlier today, I challenged Rod Dreher’s recent post wherein he lamented the difficulties we have in overcoming our minds’ propensities for rationalizations. In that same post he had argued from the experience of his own loss of Catholic faith that the intellect was an insufficient ground for religious beliefs and that the will needed to [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Daniel Dennett, Disambiguating Faith, Faith, Featured, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Religion, Secularism, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Affective Value Perception, Atheist Alliance, Crunchy Con, Dale McGowan, Emotional Reasoning, Laci Green, Parenting, Parenting Beyond Belief, Rationalization, Reason and Emotions, Rod Dreher, The Heart, Value Perception 12 Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Heart Over Reason
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In reply to Rod Dreher’s recent post explaining his decision to train his children’s wills to be faithful since the intellect was not a firm foundation of faith, I critically characterized his position as essentially boiling down to the following: So, the solution is not to train your children to be intellectually scrupulous but to [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Cultural Secularism, Daniel Dennett, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemology, Faith, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Philosophy, Political Secularism, Religion, Religious Secularism, Secularism Tags: Affective Value Perception, Authority, Belief Proportionate To Evidence, Emotional Reasoning, Reason and Emotions, Value Perception, Will To Believe 6 Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Deliberate Commitment To Rationalization
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a previous post, I discussed how theist Rod Dreher was led to some introspection and cultural criticism based on reading he was doing about the pervasiveness of distortive rationalizations in our thinking. In that context, he tried to compare religious and atheistic rationalizations as similar in kind, as both kinds of faiths. In that [...]
Disambiguating Faith: Faith As A Form Of Rationalization Unique To Religion
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Rod Dreher confronts psychological research which illustrates the pervasive role of rationalization in our thought processes, which leads us reflexively to seek out information that confirms preexisting beliefs rather than challenges them among other techniques for seeing only what we want to see. Turning to the implications of the realities of rationalization for the religious [...]
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Disambiguating Faith, Divine Intervention, Epistemology, Faith, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Metaphysics, Miracles, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Spinoza Tags: Crunchy Con, Gods of the Philosophers, Ground of all being, Materialism, Paul Tillich, Rationalization, Rod Dreher 10 Comments »Judge This: Outsourcing Pregnancy To India
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Full video of Sandel’s talk: Your Thoughts?
Christians and Muslims Assess their Holy Books Differently: a Polemic
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Hi! I’m Sendai Anonymous. Recently, Daniel and I have been having a bit of a back and forth about Christianity and Islam, and the way the believers choose to interpret their holy books here, and I thought it’d be best if I briefly summarised my views, too. In his post, Daniel writes that Islam is, [...]
Arguing Through Sarcasm And Strawmen
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A couple years ago the Christian apologists at American Vision put up this ugly bit of fear mongering: To which Laci Green more recently retorted with this satire: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Jesus, Religion, Satire Tags: Adolph Hitler, Fallacies, Laci Green, Robespierre, Sam Harris, Strawman Fallacy No Comments »Blog Carnivals
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Discover some of the most interesting posts from the most interesting skeptical and godless bloggers at their respective carnivals!
Daniel Dennett On Showing “How Religions Do Their Tricks”
August 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke According to Dennett, it’s just like showing how magicians and musicians do theirs: Your Thoughts?
Disambiguating Faith: Can Rationality Overcome It?
August 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Evangelos asks another excellent question in reply to my latest installment of the ongoing “Disambiguating Faith” series: I hope you can do an entry on the practicality of rationality. As you know, human beings are by default not rational beings; as a psychology professor once told me, “our brains have evolved for survival, not calculus”. [...]
In Honor Of The Feast Of St. Augustine
August 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Let me just take a moment to express my profound hatred for Augustine, one of most loathsome influences in all of intellectual history. If you’ve ever suffered nights of mental torture over a religiously inspired, disproportionate and overblown sense of your own utter worthlessness and sinfulness simply for being human, be sure to offer a [...]
Vatican Snubs Kennedy Over Inconsistent Fielty
August 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke One can understand cool feelings and justifiably harsh moral judgments of Ted Kennedy over his behaior at Chappiquiddick. But the Roman Catholic Church apparently takes more offense at his political independence of itself. The pope has yet to issue any statement in the wake of Kennedy’s death and when Obama hand delivered a letter [...]
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