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This laughable awfulness would be qualify as funny if the theocratic attitudes it expressed were not so serious and were the forum for this nonsense was not a presidential debate. Rachel Maddow had a great report last night on this year’s meeting of the same group that sponsored this. The footage of the astoundingly self-absorbed [...]
Archive for September, 2009
“Why Should God Bless America?”
September 19th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Fundamentalism, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Unintentional Comedy, Videos 
Tags: "God Bless America", "Why Should God Bless America", Carrie Prejean, Rachel Maddow, Religious Authoritarianism, The Church of God Choir of Springfield Ohio, Values Voter, Values Voter Presidential Debate 
No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Brooklyn Father Seeking Mother Of His Child
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In reply to this video, which we already featured on this blog and which has an ethically questionable origin on several levels (which you should read about here in the “more info” section), comes this hilarious parody: Your Thoughts?
Awkward Family Portraits
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke There’s gotta be a story behind this extraordinarily creepy photo but I don’t think I want to know it. More baffling family photos here. Your Thoughts?
Bob Dylan Christmas Album Preview
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This has to be heard to be believed. My friend put it best on Facebook: How can something be so awful and so great at the same time? I have to admit that as much as I love Dylan to death, sometimes there is such a dour ponderousness about him, that this sort of charmingly [...]
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music Tags: "Christmas In The Heart", Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan's Christmas Album, Christmas No Comments »Blaghag’s Pastafarian Protest Makes The News
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Film at 11: via Blaghag (of course) Your Thoughts?
Try Not To Laugh
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The challenge is not even to break a smile during this 4 minute video which consists only of people laughing. Sounds easy enough, right? I made it maybe a minute and a half. I admit to being a little creeped out by the mind’s desire to mirror others and, for example, laugh just because [...]
The Bible On What’s To Be Done With Non-Virgin Brides
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke via 13Suppose a man marries a woman, but after going in to her, he dislikes her 14and makes up charges against her, slandering her by saying, “I married this woman; but when I lay with her, I did not find evidence of her virginity.” 15The father of the young woman and her mother shall then submit the [...]
Posted in Christianity, Feminism, Gay Rights, Judaism, LGBTQAA, Religion, Women's Issues Tags: Biblical Violence, Religious Violence No Comments »Tom Petty On The Beatles
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Tom Petty writes about the Beatles’ legendary Ed Sullivan appearance: I think the whole world was watching that night. It certainly felt that way – you just knew it, sitting in your living room, that everything around you was changing. It was like going from black-and-white to color. Really. I remember earlier that day, in [...]
Posted in Music, Music Videos, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Videos Tags: "All My Loving", "Handle Me With Care", Beatles, Beatles Live On Ed Sullivan, Bob Dylan, Ed Sullivan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, John Lennon, Music History, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Roy Orbison, Traveling Wilburys No Comments »The Value Of Religious Moderates And The Danger Of Isolating Religious And Political Fundamentalists
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Recently Karen Armstrong is coming out with a book arguing for an extremely apophatic conception of God that rejects all manner of biblical literalism but still insists on some important reference to God and is critical of the New Atheists. Recently she and Richard Dawkins both responded to a Wall Street Journal solicitation for their [...]
Posted in Atheism, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cutural Criticism, Faith, Featured, Fundamentalism, God, New Atheism, Political Secularism, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Sarah Palin, Secularism Tags: Albert Mohler, Karen Armstrong, Moderates, Richard Dawkins, Robert Jensen, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, VorJack 6 Comments »Judge This: Is It Wrong To Rip The Creationist Introduction Out Of Ray Comfort’s Propaganda Version Of The Origin Of Species?
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Creationist Ray Comfort has put together a version of The Origin of Species which contains an introduction (which you can read here) which falsely blames Nazism on Darwin, promotes creationist pseudoscience, and lies about the scientific credibility of evolution. Yesterday I relayed a video in which Kirk Cameron touts plans to distribute 50,000 copies of [...]
Georgia O’Keefe’s Blue Flower (1918)
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke See more early Georgia O’Keefe paintings from the new Whitney exhibit and read the New York Times review of it. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Culture Tags: Abstract Painting, Art History, Georgia O'Keefe, Paintings No Comments »On Comparing God To The Tooth Fairy
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke As I argued to Clergy Guy recently, there is a qualitative difference between talking about the possible scientific/metaphysical principle of a ground of all being defensibly called “God” and talking about one of the personal deities of historical religions who are claimed to engage with each other and with humanity in highly specified ways by [...]
Will The Real Atheists Please Stop Kneeling
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Earlier this week I mentioned the rumor being spread that the New Atheists are the new prophets. Well now we can add the following bold conjectures from friend of Camels With Hammers, Clergy Guy: The church has deteriorated over the years to where we have a great number of thumbsucking, overindulged, lazy people who want somebody to pay [...]
Posted in Atheism, Featured, Religion Tags: Clergy Guy, Religious Apathy, Religious Cynicism, Schleiermacher, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, von Harnack 12 Comments »R.I.P. William Alston (1921-2009)
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I only learned a couple of hours ago about the death of William Alston. I never met him, I have only read one of his articles, and philosophically he played a leading role in Christian epistemology back on the map. But he was my the dissertation adviser of Garey Spradley, one of my college philosophy [...]
Posted in Epistemology, News Discussion, Philosophy Tags: Garey Spradley, William Alston No Comments »Coates On How Obama Drives The Racists Nuts
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke It’s no mistake that O’Reilly and Sharpton would break bread together at Sylvia’s–they feed each other. But Barack Obama, bourgeois in every way that bourgeois is right and just, will not dance.He tells kids to study–and they seethe. He accepts an apology for an immature act of rudeness–and they go hysterical. He takes his wife [...]
9.12 Wackiness
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Mesmerizing: (via Doug Alders) And: Your Thoughts?
‘Nuff Said Award Winner: A Daily Dish Reader
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Karen Armstrong has recently written a book defending an apophatic God against both atheists and religious literalists. Recently she and Richard Dawkins were both asked by the Wall Street Journal to write essays on where evolution leaves God. In reply to Andrew Sullivan’s accommodationism, which came out in his discussions of this debate, one of [...]
Posted in 'Nuff Said, Andrew Sullivan, Atheism, God, New Atheism, Religion Tags: Accommodationism, Karen Armstrong, Richard Dawkins 1 Comment »A Danish Mother Searches For Baby’s Father Via YouTube
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Watch the whole video before reading up on the backstory behind it and the ensuing controversy, which will likely change your perspective of what the issues are through reading the info next to the video on YouTube itself. After you’ve watched and read; Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Kanye Tries To Correct A Philosophical Error
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Apparently, Kanye’s been spanning the globe and world history correcting injustices he perceives. Your Thoughts?
Don’t Let Kirk Win
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Earlier I announced my plan to protest Kirk Cameron’s decision to spread a creationist’s version of The Origin of Species by burning all my memories of Growing Pains. A Lazy Man disagrees with my choice: Still, Kirk Cameron can’t have my memories. He can tell 50,000 people about Johann Kepler’s supposed views on god (a [...]
Self-Righteous Atheist
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Hemant Mehta has an incredibly petty post in which he picks on Serena Williams for losing her temper and cursing at a line judge. He needlessly exploits her human failing to try to score political points against her religion: I don’t think swearing is some horrible sin. But the outburst just shows how a religious [...]
In Defense Of Curiosity Against The Religious Barnacles
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers takes on the latest insufferable nonsense from Stanley Fish, this which advances the thought of regressive religious thinkers who, as religious thinkers have always done, attack curiosity as a threat to their superstitions. Myers’s whole piece is great and worth your time, but for those of you who don’t read it at least [...]
Daily Hilarity: The Story of Creation
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The Thinking Atheist reconciles it with what we know about science (and, not to mention, morality): Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Religion and Science, Religious Satire, Religulous, Satire, Videos Tags: Adam & Eve, Garden of Eden, Talking Snake, The Thinking Atheist No Comments »Spatial Thinking Within And Without Religion
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Peaceful Atheist has another extremely interesting post which, like her previous one exploring the need even for an atheist to explore what she calls her “religious imagination and need for transcendence” about which we already blogged here, now explores the role that spatial thinking played in her formerly religious thinking and how it works in her engagement [...]
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