.png){kind=logo}
Forgive me for mining the comments on Unreasonable Faith for yet another post but their community of commentators is spectacular, so it’s inevitable that there will be multiple things worth calling attention to. This comes from Mike Speir (who is also something of a Camels With Hammers regular): My thinking is that Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christians in [...]
Archive for September, 2009
‘Nuff Said Award Winner: Mike Speir On The Sources Of Evangelical Americanism
September 21st, 2009 
Daniel Fincke Make Beautiful Music With No Talent
September 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke This is so so so neat. Your Thoughts?
The Yearning Animal
September 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Greta Christina takes down the argument that the desire for God proves there is a God to fulfill it out there to be discovered: Someone (I can’t remember who now) recently pointed out that the “no atheists in foxholes” argument, even if it were true (which it’s not), isn’t an argument for God’s existence. It’s actually [...]
Posted in Arguments for the Existence of God, Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Featured, Music, Music Videos, Nietzsche, Psychology, Videos 
Tags: Atheists In Foxholes, Augustine, Bernard Reginster, David Byrne, God-Shaped Hole, Greta Christina, Happiness, Heaven, Longing, Self-Overcoming, Talking Heads, Will to Power, Yearning 
No Comments »American World Geography
September 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke via Daniel Florien Your Thoughts?
Also Sprach Zarathustra: School Performance Style
September 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Stirring: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Music, Music Videos, Nietzsche, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tags: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Strauss No Comments »Are We In The Midst Of A Literacy Revolution Unseen Since The Greeks?
September 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Clive Thompson reports that Stanford’s Andrea Lunsford thinks so: It’s almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn’t a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they’d leave school [...]
Pastor Steven L. Anderson Drops By
September 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke askegg shows step by step how to respond to the infamous Stephen L. Anderson: via Proud Atheists (Happy Anniversary, Proud Atheists) Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Target Women
September 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke The satire of drug commercials and religion I posted earlier put me in the mood for this classic from the ever-awesome Sarah Haskins:
Posted in Comedy, Feminism, Hilarious, Videos Tags: Advertising, Commercials, Sarah Haskins, Target: Women No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Religiousil
September 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Religion, Religious Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: DarkMatter2525, Drug Commercials, Religiousil, The Opiate Of The Masses No Comments »Daily Hilarity: The Perils Of Lesbianity
September 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Feminism, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Parody, Religious Satire, Satire, Videos, Women's Issues Tags: Lesbians No Comments »Philosophical Ethics: A.J. Ayer And The Emotivism Of A Positivist
September 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Epistemology, Ethics, Featured, Historical Philosophy, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Language Tags: A.J. Ayer, Arguments About The Meaninglessness of God, C.L. Stevenson, Emotivism, G.E. Moore, God As Unverifiable, Good, Goodness, Logical Positivism, Meaning, Moral Disagreement, Moral Objectivity, Moral Relativism, Moral Subjectivism, Problem of Moral Disagreement, Semantics, Speech Act, Subjectivism 2 Comments »Philosophical Ethics: From G.E. Moore’s Non-Naturalism To C.L. Stevenson’s Emotivism
September 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]
Posted in Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Language Tags: C.L. Stevenson, David Hume, Descriptive Statements, Descriptive Statements Said Dynamically, Dynamic Statements, Emoting, Emotional Persuasion, Emotivism, Expressive Language, G.E. Moore, Moral Disagreement, Speech Acts 3 Comments »The Signs Of Intelligent Life
September 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Brilliant from xkcd: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comic Strips, Epistemology, Hilarious, Philosophy of Science, Satire Tags: Anthropomorphism, Ants, Pheromone Trails No Comments »“Reason As Memetic Immune Disorder”
September 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Phil Goetz has one of the best blog posts I’ve ever read and it deserves to be read in its entirety. Here are the main points and a couple of key points of application to whet your appetite: You may have noticed that people who convert to religion after the age of 20 or so [...]
Sundaily Hilarity: Pastafarian Preaching
September 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke For once the hilarious religious people we can highlight is a group of deliberately hilarious religious people. The Pastafarians of Purdue. BlagHag has a full account of the day, including some helpful background to the video: We go out in full pirate regalia preaching the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and hand out flyers [...]
Posted in Atheism, Comedy, Cultural Secularism, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Parody, Religious Satire, Religulous, Satire, Secularism, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tags: BlagHag, Brother Jed, Eugene Levy, Evangelism, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Pastafarians, Purdue, Street Preachers No Comments »Philosophical Ethics: On G.E. Moore’s Notion Of Good As An Indefinable Non-Natural Property
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]
Posted in Ethics, Featured, Historical Philosophy, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Language Tags: Color Vision, G.E. Moore, Goodness, Goodness As A Non-Natural Property, Goodness As A Simple Property, Goodness As Indefinable, Incommensurability of Intuitions, Intuitions, Intuitions of Goodness, Moral Intuitionism, Moral Intuitions, Non-Natural Properties, The Naturalistic Fallacy, The Open-Ended Question, The Problem of Disagreement 2 Comments »Debunking A Creationist Documentary Error By Error
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke djarm67, a scientifically literate theist, presents the creationist A Questions of Origins while correcting each distortion, oversimplification, and error as it occurs: There are six parts, watch them all if you have the time. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Cosmology, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics, Religion and Science, Science Tags: Anthropic Principle, Big Bang No Comments »The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Today PZ Myers posted a link to an article about the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota. And I’m sort of Pavlovian about the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota: I cannot hear its named even mentioned without playing Weird Al’s classic tribute to it. And since every thought that goes through my head gets [...]
Don’t Burn Books, Write In Them
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke My last post reminded me of a great post at Friendly Atheist last month. A former Christian was torn about what to do with her once much beloved Left Behind books which she now deemed too worthless to keep and too corrosive to donate to impressionable young girls. She, like me, has also has a [...]
On The Symbolism Of Book Destruction
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Over the past few days we’ve been discussing creationists Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron’s plan to freely disseminate 50,000 copies of a new version of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species which they are putting out and which contains a deceptive, creationist introduction filled with bad science and false history. RichardDawkins.net and Pharyngula have encouraged people not only to [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Authoritarianism, Civil Liberties, Creationism, Cultural Secularism, Education, Featured, Free Speech, Intelligent Design, Political Secularism, Politics, PZ Myers, Secularism Tags: Barack Obama, Book Burning, Book Mutilation, Censorship, Joe Wilson, Kirk Cameron, Ray Comfort, Ray Comfort's Version of Origin of Species, RichardDawkins.net, Symbolism No Comments »Jamaica’s Violent Homophobia
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In reply to this brutal story about the murder of the honorary consul to the British High Commission in Jamaica which involved a note threatening the same fate for all other gays, “Sendai Anonymous” points me to a must-read article by the invaluable Johann Hari about the extent of the homophobia in Jamaica. Key excerpts: [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Music Videos, News Discussion, Politics, Religious Extremism, Videos, World Affairs Tags: "Bad Man, "Hang Up Dem", Beenie Man, Brian Williamson, Buju Banton, Chi Chi Man", Hate Speech, Jamaica, Jamaican Forum For Lesbians All-Sexuals and Gays, Janet Jackson, Johann Hari, J_FLAG, Montego Bay, Puma, Reggae No Comments »Carrie Prejean’s Speech To The Value Voters Summit
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I’m astounded by her self-absorbed, self-congratulating, and self-righteous cognitive dissonance as she champions herself an enemy of “intolerance” (which “disgusts her”) while being the poster girl for denying people equal rights: And for those who are real gluttons for punishment here is Maggie Gallagher’s introduction to Prejean. Your Thoughts?
Michael Newdow vs. Megyn Kelly On The Pledge And “Under God”
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A good debate: Your Thoughts?
“This Will Happen To All The Gays”
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The Gaytheist Agenda relays this horrific and upsetting story: The honorary consul to the British High Commission in Jamaica has been found murdered at his home in Montego Bay. John Terry, 65, was discovered with a cord and an item of clothing tied around his neck outside his house in Mount Carey on Wednesday. it [...]
Recent Comments