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Mark Driscoll the mainstream megachurch pastor at Mars Hill Church attacks stay-at-home dads as “not real men” and, my favorite, “worse than unbelievers.” Ouch dudes, you’re worse than us atheists if you stay home to take care of your kids! Oh snap! Enjoy being on the bottom of the pecking order! We atheists who have real [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Evangelical Christian Sexism Galore
November 8th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke Do As Jesus Says, Not As He Does…
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Jesus 
Tags: "What Would Jesus Do?", Hypocrisy, Matthew 23:13, Matthew 23:17, Matthew 5:21-22, ProfMTH 
No Comments »Infantile
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Congressman John Shadegg puts words into a baby’s mouth and cites the baby as an expert on the house floor: UPDATE: Sendai Anonymous (occasional Camels With Hammers contributor and full time resident queen of adding awesome links for further reading in the comments section) reminds us of this post which solves the mystery of what must have [...]
Is The Catholic Church A Force For Good In The World? (And Do The New Atheists Persuade Anyone?)
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Do New Atheists like Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry turn off more people than they persuade? I always emphatically argue no and the video below is solid evidence that I’m right. Before this debate the audience was polled on whether they wanted to support the motion, “The Catholic church is a force for good in the [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Cultural Secularism, New Atheism, Political Secularism, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Videos Tags: Ann Widdecombe, Archbishop John Onaiyekan, Christopher Hitchens, Sendai Anonymous, Stephen Fry No Comments »Sundaily Hilarity: High On Jesus
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheist Videos, Christianity, Religion, Religulous, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tags: alcohol barrels, Angels, bar tender, Holy Spirit, Ireland, minister, Pentacostal, preacher, sermon, tongues No Comments »Sixpence None The Richer’s “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Profiling the fantastic Fiona Apple version of “Across The Universe” and the new Taken By Trees spin on Animal Collective got me thinking about another of my favorite covers by a woman singer, Leigh Nash’s exquisite performance of “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” with her band Sixpence None The Richer. Please forgive a Christmas [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "You're A Mean One, Dr. Seuss, Mr. Grinch", Sixpence None The Richer No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Like Hitler’s Germany Or Stalin’s Russia
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This pretty much sums up contemporary moral debates in the public sphere: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Ethics, Hilarious, Parody, Satire Tags: Godwin's Law, Hitler, Stalin, That Mithcell and Webb Look No Comments »Fiona Apple’s “Across The Universe”
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I may be prejudiced in that I first discovered this song through her performance, rather than through either John Lennon’s own or through any other cover it, but as far as I go Fiona’s sultry husky voice languidly mumbling in a flowing, laconic, melodically and ironically complacent way is what the song was written for. [...]
Posted in Arts, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Across the Universe", "Pleasantville", Beatles, Covers, Covers Better Than Originals, Fiona Apple, John Lennon No Comments »Johann Hari On Ayn Rand
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Johann Hari has two exquisitely written and detailed pieces on Rand, one from 2005 and one from this past week. I have to admit that she is held with so much contempt by philosophers that I have never bothered to read her, even if only to understand the influence of her infamously crude appropriation of [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Right Wing Politics Tags: Ayn Rand, Johann Hari, Leninism, Right Wing Extremism No Comments »The Hard Case Against Perpetual War
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, an uncompromising, non-partisan champion of civil liberties and opponent of U.S. violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Constitution, sat down with Bill Moyers the end of last month and made a sobering case about the self-perpetuating character of war in America. I feel very conflicted personally since even though I opposed [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Military, News Discussion, Politics, Videos, World Affairs Tags: Afghanistan, Bill Moyers, Civil Liberties, Glenn Greenwald, Left Wing Politics, Peace, Salon.com, War No Comments »Animal Collective’s “My Girls” and Taken By Trees’ Cover “My Boys”
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A really good song first tripped out in Animal Collective experimentation and then stripped down in Taken By Trees’ more elemental (but barely less buoyant) version. For cover lovers, this is a wonderful contrast worth exploring: You can get Animal Collective’s album here and Taken By Trees’ here. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "My Boys", "My Girls", Animal Collective, Covers, Taken By Trees No Comments »“NASA has an underground bunker with life support, the human race does not. Don’t euthanize the human race by bombing planets!”
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers relays an urgent plea to NASA from a courageous prophet. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, PZ Myers, Religion, Religulous, Unintentional Comedy Tags: Moon, NASA No Comments »Marrying For Sex
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers has an interesting and accurate seeming account of the effects of conservative American Christianity’s obsessive and draconian opposition to all premarital sex and its implications for contributing to the hysteria about children learning about same sex couples: I teach at a large university in a conservative part of the country, [...]
Posted in Christianity, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Psychology, Religion, Sex, Sociology Tags: Evangelicalism, Marriage 12 Comments »Intelligent Design In A Nusthell
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers starts off his lecture from the Atheist Alliance International meeting last month with an encapsulation of Intelligent Design thinking. The key word is complex: Your Thoughts?
Iranian Student Stands Up To Supreme Leader
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Impressive courage: Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge – unprecedented in a country where insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a crime punishable by prison. The session began with a speech in which Khamenei told the students the “biggest crime” was to question the results of [...]
Posted in News, Politics, World Affairs Tags: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran, Mahmoud Vahidnia No Comments »A Movie About The Life Of Muhammad Coming Soon
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke And it features, well, not Muhammad: Plans for the $150million English-language biopic were announced at the close of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar on Sunday. The narrative will run from the years before the Prophet’s birth through to his death but there will be one conspicuous break from conventional biopic methods: in accordance [...]
A Brief Overview Of My Dissertation
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Nietzsche’s writings on morality are famously provocative and controversial. His criticisms of morality in both theory and practice are so extensive and rhetorically scathing that many philosophers assume that he can offer little or nothing constructive to moral philosophy. Additionally, his glorification of the will to power sounds prima facie like a celebration of excessively [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Autonomy, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, New Atheism, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Virtues Tags: "On Deriving and Defending An Axiology of the Will To Power", Absolutism, Christian Morality, Consequentialism, Dissertation, Duty, Happiness, Heteronomy, Immoralism, Indirect Consequentialism, Instrumental Goods, Intrinsic Goods, Jonathan Haidt, Kantian Moral Philosophy, Moral Absolutism, Pleasure, Self-Overcoming, Virtue, Will to Power 3 Comments »The Religious Who Cry Offense
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Michael Brull exposes exactly the hypocrisy and evasiveness at the core of religious attempts to silence criticism from atheists on the grounds that it’s inherently “offensive”: Facing a new attack with an international audience playing close attention, religions have as little rational argument in their favour as ever. There was a time when they could [...]
Jesus And Other Undead Monsters, A Venn Diagram
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke via The Good Atheist. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Hilarious, Jesus, Religion, Religulous, Satire Tags: Dracula, Frankenstein, Zombies No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Hate Mail
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Richard Dawkins reads some hate mail from religious detractors: And ZJ also gives her critics a fair hearing: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Christianity, God, New Atheism, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religulous, Videos Tags: Hate Mail, Religious Hatred, Richard Dawkins, ZJemptv No Comments »Lisa Hannigan Sings Personal Jesus
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke From October 30, 2009 at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota comes this great live concert footage of Lisa Hannigan’s exhilaratingly arranged and performed cover that’s making the biggest splash during her current shows opening for David Gray: I so want this live performance to show up in a .WAV file and then for it [...]
Posted in Jesus, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Personal Jesus", Concert Footage, Depeche Mode, Lisa Hannigan, Live Music, Orpheum Theater No Comments »Simon Blackburn On Philosophy’s Contributions
November 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In the UK, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills intends to assess “the benefits of postgraduate study for all relevant stakeholders” and “the evidence about the needs of employers for postgraduates.” Philosopher Simon Blackburn answered a request for faculty comments with a letter worth reading in full. A couple highlights: (1) Our postgraduate philosophy [...]
Posted in Academic Disciplines, Education, Philosophy Tags: David Hume, Francis Bacon, John Locke, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Simon Blackburn No Comments »Reading Nietzsche Post-Modernly
November 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This week from Chaos Pet: And find out why Nester is frustrated with time travel here. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comic Strips, Hilarious, Nietzsche, Philosophy Tags: Chaos Pet, Postmodernism, Thus Spoke Zarathustra No Comments »Maine And Abominations To God
November 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Blaghag is impressed with Maine’s biblical stance on homosexuality and can’t wait for them to follow through on the implications of these verses from Leviticus and Deuteronomy next: 9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, [...]
Grizzly Bear’s Wacky New Video
November 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So Grizzly Bear’s newest album Veckatimist is all the rage in the indie music world (and has been since long before it was officially released). I haven’t yet given it much of a chance outside listening to a few tracks because I never got into their previous album. Nonetheless, I’m a sucker for claymation and [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Uncategorized, Videos Tags: "Ready, Able", Allison Shulnik, Grizzly Bear, Veckatimist No Comments »
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