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Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom have a book out called Does God Hate Women? Nick Cohen quotes it thusly, Well, what can one say. Religious authorities and conservative clerics worship a wretchedly cruel unjust vindictive executioner of a God. They worship a God of 10-year-old boys, a God of playground bullies, a God of rapists, of [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Does Religious Misogyny Get A Free Pass?
August 28th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheism, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Cultural Secularism, Feminism, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Law, News Discussion, Political Secularism, Politics, Religious Extremism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Women's Issues, World Affairs 
Tags: "One Law For All Campaign", Apartheid, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, BBC, Biblical Misogyny, Cairo Declaration of Human Rights, Jeremy Stangroom, Koranic Misogyny, Maryam Namazie, Misogyny, Nick Cohen, Ophelia Benson, Religious Misogyny, Sha'ria Law, Timothy Garton Ash, United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights, Women's Rights 
No Comments »“Faith Killing”
August 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke You know, I’m tired hearing of these blood-boiling cases of children dying because of their parents influencing them to substitute prayer for medicine. Here’s the latest such murder to make the news, via Mojoey) I’m also tired of the term “faith healing” to describe these events. I suggest we call it what it really is: faith [...]
Judge This: Should 13 Year Old Girl Be Allowed To Sail World Alone?
August 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Dutch officials have detained a 13 year old sailor in order to evaluate her psychological fitness to make the decision to sail the world: 13-year-old Laura Dekkerwants to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, a goal her parents support. But today, Dutch authorities put her in temporary state custody while psychologists assess [...]
Alan Colmes Vs. Homophobic Pastor Steven Anderson
August 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In four crazy parts that Anderson put up online himself afterwards. It’s a wild listen. Part 1: Anderson makes clear that the Bible calls for hate and so that’s why he hates. He makes clear that he thinks he believes every gay person in the world is a predator and every homosexual he has known [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Christianity, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism Tags: Alan Colmes, Steven Anderson No Comments »A Lutheran Bishop Stands Up For Pro-Gay Ruling
August 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Michael Rinehart is wise on how to handle ultimatums and on how not to read the Bible: I have a letter from an angry member, who is threatening to leave the church if I don’t do this or that, or say this or that. I sit on the couch and smile, but it is a [...]
Defend Maine’s Same-Sex Marriages
August 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Greta Christina sends out the rallying cry: momentum is huge in politics. A win makes the next campaign on the issue seem less radical and less scary; not just for voters, but for politicians and public figures, who are way more likely to fight for a cause if it looks like it already has some [...]
Correcting Genetic Disorders With Better Genes
August 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This seems like no-brainer wonderful news to me: The prospect of a human baby with three biological parents has moved closer after scientists created monkeys using a technique that one day could stop children from inheriting severe genetic diseases. The birth of four healthy macaque monkeys in the US offers the strongest evidence yet that [...]
Posted in Biology, Science Tags: Birth Defects, Genetic Diseases, Genetic Engineering, Genetic Research, Genetics, Macaque Monkeys, Playing God No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Dining Room Tables Get No Respect
August 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Unreasonable Faith has a great find:
Posted in Hilarious, Politics, Videos Tags: Barney Frank, Dining Room Tables, Health Care Debate, Nazis No Comments »Kentucky Homeland Security Was Required To Credit Almighty God In Their Official Reports
August 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Unbelievably brazen, I cannot believe it took 3 years to strike down this baldly unconstitutional law: A judge on Wednesday struck down a 2006 state law that required the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to stress “dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the commonwealth.” Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate ruled [...]
Advertising Atheism?
August 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke What the hell, right? (via Stupid Evil Bastard) Your Thoughts?
Introducing Sendai Anonymous
August 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke We’re incredibly excited to have our first guest contributors to join Dave and I posting on Camels With Hammers. Earlier we saw Robert’s guest contribution on his observations at the Creation Museum. And now we’re excited to announce that in the near future we will feature guest posts from Sara, the witty, passionate, and intellectually [...]
A Creation Petting Zoo?
August 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Keeping up with the amusement church theme found on the rest of the grounds, Profit Prophet Ham has a lovely little petting zoo, perhaps one of the two interactive exhibits available to catch the attention of children.
Posted in Biology, Creationism, Evolution, Featured, Fundamentalism, Religious Extremism, Secularism Tags: Biology, Creation Museum, Creationism, creozerg, Education, Evolution, Religion, Science, skeptic 4 Comments »Introducing Robert B
August 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke On August 7, 2009, PZ Myers and the Secular Student Alliance led a field trip of a few hundred atheists and other secularists through Ken Ham’s infamous Creation Museum, a “museum” dedicated to promulgating the idea that a certain reading of the Bible should guide scientific investigation and understanding. Past Camels With Hammers coverage of [...]
Posted in About This Blog, Creationism, Religion and Science Tags: Creation Museum, Robert B No Comments »If You Disobey God’s Laws He’ll Make You Eat Your Own Children
August 26th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Seriously, this is straight from Deuteronomy 28:53 which you can find marvelously illustrated with legos by The Brick Testament (whose renderings of a series of God’s curses are helpfully grouped together by Dwindling In Unbelief) And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy [...]
Posted in Bible, Christianity, God, Judaism Tags: Biblical Atrocities, Biblical Cannibalism, Cannibalism, Curses, Deuteronomy 28:53, Immoral God 1 Comment »How Christians and Muslims Assess Their Holy Books Differently
August 26th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Yesterday we reported on Sebastian Faulks retracting remarks criticizing Muhammad and the Koran with an apology which included the following paragraph: While we Judaeo-Christians can take a lot of verbal rough-and-tumble about our human-written scriptures, I know that to Muslims the Koran is different; it is by definition beyond criticism. And if anything I said [...]
Daily Hilarity: Socialites Without Borders
August 26th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The Onion reports: KIGALI, RWANDA—In an effort to provide relief to a people devastated by civil war, genocide, and poverty, members of the humanitarian aid group Socialites Without Borders spent several hours this week teaching destitute Rwandans how to mingle. Arriving on private jets from their headquarters in Martha’s Vineyard, volunteers from Socialites Without [...]
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Satire Tags: Affluence, Poverty, Rwanda, Socialites, The Onion No Comments »Disturbing First Hand Account Of Our Christianist Military
August 26th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Via Unreasonable Faith, comes this piece written by an Army Officer and West Point graduate. Reading this has boiled my blood like nothing in a long time: During my second year at the West Point, my Squad Leader for summer training expressed disapproval on numerous occasions with my being Jewish, and, during one mission, [...]
Daily Hilarity: The Facts The Emperor Doesn’t Want You To Know
August 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke We all think we know what happened to the Empire’s first Death Star a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but this unnerving fact sheet raises numerous causes for doubt about the official story we’ve been fed: 4) Why has there not been an investigation into allegations that Darth Vader, the second-ranking [...]
Posted in Comedy, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Political Satire, Politics, Pop Culture, Videos Tags: 9/11 Conspiracists, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Political Parody, Star Wars No Comments »Buzz-Killing The Atheists Are Awesome Videos
August 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke George dissects the atheism videos we featured earlier today which showed just how awesome atheists are and how much everyone would miss us if we took our awesomeness away. George kills some buzz with a little fact checking: I am going to begrudgingly play devil’s advocate here so don’t panic, I have not gone off [...]
Classic Pat Condell Video On The Benefits Of Atheism
August 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Rarely does someone say so much so right so well in just over 4 minutes: Your Thoughts?
Disambiguating Faith: Faith In The Sub-, Pre-, Or Un-conscious
August 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In previous posts (which you will not need to have read to understand this one, but which I recommend you catch up on if you have the time now or later), Adam has tried to argue that irrational ways of thinking may be indispensable means of getting at truth. In response, I have tried to [...]
Posted in Arts, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemology, Faith, Featured, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion Tags: Arists, Art, Discursive vs. Non-Discursive Thinking, Emotional Logic, Irrationalism, Metaphor, Myth, Painting, Poetry, Religious Imagery, Religious Myth, Religious Symbols, Subconscious, Subconscious Reasoning, Symbolic Thinking, Symbols, Unconscious 9 Comments »The Responsibility Of Religious Leaders For The Ignorance Of Religious Laypeople
August 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A teaser excerpt from Richard Dawkins’s upcoming defense of evolution is up online. His boldest claim—evolution deniers are as bad as Holocaust deniers. This book is necessary. I shall be using the name “historydeniers” for those people who deny evolution: who believe the world’s age is measured in thousands of years rather than thousands of [...]
Unemployment Or Grad School?
August 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke When I started grad school in 2000, my stipend was almost half that average. But it’s hard to complain when you’re being paid to learn what you love, cultivate your mind, and prepare for (hopeful) entrance into an elite profession with eventual bullet proof job security and the possibility of working well into your later [...]
Is The Koran Beyond Criticism Simply Because Muslims Exempt It From Criticism?
August 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Author Sebastian Faulks recently made derogatory remarks about the Koran saying that it lacked an “ethical dimension” and that it did not stack up favorably to the Christian tradition (which is his own): “Jesus, unlike Muhammad, had interesting things to say. Muhammad had nothing to say to the world other than, ‘If you don’t believe [...]
Posted in Featured, Fundamentalism, Islam, Jesus, Koran, Religious Extremism Tags: Muhammad 1 Comment »
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