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Tim Wise offers a powerful counterfactual: Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Imagining Black Tea Parties: A Thought Experiment
April 24th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke Egyptian Cleric Mazen Al-Sarsawi Gives Brutal Advice For Treatment of Wives
April 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Forced marriage, marital rape, tying the hair of two wives together and beating them, etc. Simply stomach-turning misogynistic stuff, broadcast on Al-Nas TV in Egypt, January 7, 2010. (via Atheist Media Blog) Your Thoughts?
Jesus And Mo Watch South Park, Discover Profound Paradox
April 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Put two great religious founders together and let the mysteries emerge: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comic Strips, Hilarious, Jesus, Satire, Uncategorized 
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No Comments »Depicting Mohammed (Watching Insubordinate Women Tortured In Hell)
April 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke (For “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” I’m moving this post back to the front page.) This is a fascinating link to plenty of Islamic artistic renderings of Mohammed from before prohibitions were created. From the site: In 1999, Islamic art expert Wijdan Ali wrote a scholarly overview of the Muslim tradition of depicting Mohammed, which can [...]
The Catholic Church’s Struggles With Sex Abuse Scandals Down Through The Ages
April 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke An unusually historically informative short video, via Unreasonable Faith. On edit, back at Unreasonable Faith, PsiCop argues the video is factually challenged: This video has some factual flaws, and even in addition to that, it’s anachronistic. The “pedophilia” referred to in early documents like the Didache and at the synod of Elvira very likely alluded to a [...]
Atheist In Liverpool Sentenced To 6 Months In Jail For Blasphemy
April 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In late 2008 Harry Taylor was arrested for putting anti-religious leaflets in a prayer room in the John Lennon airport in Liverpool. The specific charge was an Anti-Social Behaviour Order. Here are a few of the images for which he would be going to jail for 6 months were his sentence not suspended for [...]
Posted in Christianity, Featured, Free Speech, Islam, Law, News, News Discussion, Pope Benedict XVI, Separation of Church and State Tags: "Militant Atheism", Anti-Social Behaviour Order, ASBO, Blasphemy Laws, Cartoons, Harry Taylor, John Lennon, John Lennon Airport, Liverpool, National Secular Society, Nicky Lees, Religious Harassment, Terry Sanderson 7 Comments »Christian Justice
April 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke DarkMatter2525 offers a terrific pair of demonstrations of the absurdity of the New Testament’s logic on matters related to justice: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Christianity, Hilarious, Jesus, New Atheism, Religious Satire, Religulous, Satire 2 Comments »Fordham Baserunner Brian Kownacki’s Phenomenal Play
April 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke I’ve never seen any baserunner do this before: Go Fordham!!! Your Thoughts?
Thomas Jefferson vs. Sarah Palin
April 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Keith Olbermann compares the two great American leaders’ views of God and state: Your Thoughts?
Heaven As Weapon
April 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Johann Hari details some of the pernicious ways religions exploit the desire for heaven: Even some atheists regard heaven as one of the least-harmful religious ideas: a soothing blanket to press onto the brow of the bereaved. But its primary function for centuries was as a tool of control and intimidation. The Vatican, for example, [...]
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Islam, New Atheism, Religion, Roman Catholic Church Tags: Heaven, Johann Hari No Comments »Too Much Atheist Facebooking?
April 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Kala, though an atheist and a friend of Camels With Hammers, is overwhelmed by so many atheist related links on her Facebook wall: Have you ever felt like your brain is working too hard? Well this is how I am feeling. I hate logging into Facebook and all I see is Atheist, science, and anti-religion [...]
Earthquakes Explained: Promiscuous Girls The Cause
April 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke We so often hear religion is not incompatible with science because “science can’t tell us everything”, with the implication being that religion can tell us what science cannot. This must be one of those things we need religion to explain to us, not how earthquakes happen but why they happen and how we can prevent them! [...]
Posted in Divine Intervention, God, Islam, Religion, Religion and Science, Religulous Tags: Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, Iran, Sadeq Mahsooli No Comments »On Reading Biblical Texts “In Context”
April 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke NonStampCollector came back with a new, typically solid, video during my virtual hiatus from blogging: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Bible, God, New Atheism, Religious Satire Tags: Biblical Atrocities, Biblical Violence, NonStampCollector, Yahweh No Comments »Atheist’s Wager
April 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Atheist’s Wager provides sums up what I think the real wager would be were there any likelihood that a hell-threatening monotheistic God existed: I propose as my answer to Pascal’s wager, two choices and two outcomes. The choices come down to theism (of any religion, not just Christianity) vs. atheism. The outcomes include going to [...]
Thorough Refutation of Pascal’s Wager in 6 Minutes
April 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke From Qualia Soup and Theramin Trees. Just turn off the volume because there is none of Qualia Soup’s normal soothing narration but instead some truly horrendous music. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, God, New Atheism, Religion, Videos Tags: Pascal's Wager, Qualia Soup, Theramin Trees No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Mr. Deity and the Quitter
April 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke It might be just me, but this is one of my favorite episodes in a while: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Bible, Christianity, Comedy, God, Hilarious, Jesus, New Atheism, Parody, Satire, Videos Tags: Mr. Deity No Comments »Divine Serial Killer
April 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Dwindling In Unbelief provides a full chart of all biblical claims of divinely sanctioned killings, replete with death totals and links to blog posts discussing the details of most of them. A handy resource. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Divine Intervention, God, Judaism, Religion Tags: Biblical Atrocities, Biblical Violence No Comments »Justice Stevens and the Separation of Church and State
April 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The Center For Inquiry pays tribute to retiring Justice John Paul Stevens for his record of affirming the necessity of a wall between church and state: He was a stalwart defender of church-state separation, and through his persuasive powers he was often able to garner a Court majority to support a proper reading of the [...]
Trend of Murdering Gays and Desecrating Their Bodies Spreads in Africa
April 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Yet another story so hard to stomach: THIES, Senegal – Even death cannot stop the violence against gays in this corner of the world any more. Madieye Diallo’s body had only been in the ground for a few hours when the mob descended on the weedy cemetery with shovels. They yanked out the corpse, spit [...]
Beautiful Art From Toxic Chemicals
April 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Tree Hugger explains and showcases some of the imaginative work of Algis Kemezys: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Photography Tags: Environmental Art, Novelties, Toxic Chemicals, Tree Hugger No Comments »God Cites “Moving In Mysterious Ways” As Motive For Killing 3,000 Papua New Guineas
April 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The Onion has full coverage of God’s remarks here and of Jesus Christ’s recent decision to hire an associate christ here. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Divine Intervention, God, Hilarious, Jesus, Parody, Religious Satire, Satire Tags: "God Works In Mysterious Ways", God As Mystery, Mystery No Comments »Sundaily Hilarity: Jesus The Tea Partier
April 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Portraits of Jesus captioned with the statements of various right wingers from recent years: Many more great pictures, all linked to the sources of the quotes, here. I imagine they’ll keep updating in the future, so remember to revisit. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Comedy, Comic Strips, Glenn Beck, Hilarious, Jesus, Political Satire, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Satire Tags: Health Care, James Dobson, Poverty, Right Wing Extremism No Comments »Maximal Self-Realization In Self-Obliteration: The Existential Paradox of Heroic Self-Sacrifice
April 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Last summer I wrote a number of posts through which I sought to disambiguate the various senses of the word faith and in the process distinguish the various virtuous ethical and epistemic practices for which faith is typically confused by means of ambiguous equivocations. I attempted to distinguish the virtues of hope, loyalty, trust, intuitional [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Disambiguating Faith, Duty, Epistemic Justification, Ethics, Faith, Featured, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Secularism, Teleology, Virtues Tags: 9/11, 9/11 Firefighters, Courage, Existential Justification, Existentialism, Functionalism, Idealism, Indirect Consequentialism, Loyalty, Moral Perfectionism, Perfectionism No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Betty Bowers Awards Sarah Palin “Worst Mother Award”
April 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Comedy, Hilarious, New Atheism, Parody, Political Satire, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Satire, Videos, Women's Issues Tags: Betty Bowers No Comments »Andy Thomson on Why We Believe in Gods
April 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
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