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I used this video to help illustrate a point over a year ago. Back then we did not have the capabilities to actually embed the video. Oh, and we had almost no readers either. But now that we are at a new host that lets us embed whatever we want, it’s been finally added to [...]
Archive for June, 2010
South Park’s Chef Explains God And Answers The Problem Of Evil
June 30th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Christianity, Comedy, Comedy, God, God, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Problem of Evil, Problem of Evil, Religion, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire 
Tags: Chef From South Park, Original Sin, South Park, Stan From South Park 
3 Comments »God’s “Orbit Plans” For Bristol Palin
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Tinfoiler interprets current events for her son: Blessed Bristol Palin is back in the news discussing her wonderful love child. When my son Hunter asked me why it was okay for Bristol Palin to have a baby before she was married, I told him that God has special rules for special people. God knew that Bristol [...]
Sympathy For The Hate-Mailers
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Barrett Brown, the director of communications for the godless lobby “Enlighten The Vote” and a contributor to skeptic magazines, explains why he deserves all the mean e-mails he gets: In my defense, though, I didn’t choose to be either an atheist or a skeptic; rather, these were simply mindsets I came to adopt around the [...]
Posted in Atheism, Hilarious, New Atheism, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Skepticism, Skepticism Tags: Indigo Children, New Age, Nostradamus No Comments »Alright, I Promised No More “You’re Not Helping” Posts BUT
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke William has posted a real apology: I never meant for the blog to originally be a smear campaign against any group of people or individuals. Where I went wrong – and where the blog went wrong – was in letting my emotions get the best of me, not thinking clearly (actually not thinking at all), [...]
Christopher Hitchens To Undergo Chemotherapy On His Esophagus
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Here’s his brief announcement of this terrible news: I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice seems persuasive to me. I regret having had to cancel so many engagements at such short notice. I’m sure I speak for many when I say that [...]
Anatomy Of A Non-Apology
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke George is an old friend here at Camels With Hammers, a poster whose extremely perceptive comments (both emotionally and intellectually) inspired me to write many of my favorite posts (more than I can remember offhand, but most memorably including Character As Fate And Environment As Variability, On The Meaning Of Meaning, The Complicated Relationship Of An Apostate To [...]
Judge This: The Pancake Mix Rebuttal To Street Evangelism
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke This looks quite effective: If you consider it too antagonistic or too mocking, I’m interested in your views about my standards for fairly mocking religious beliefs, which I discuss in the posts, In Defense Of Mocking And Embarrassing Religion and My Thoughts On Blasphemy Day. If you accept my standards but still disagree, why do you think [...]
Disambiguating Faith: Not All Beliefs Held Without Certainty Are Faith Beliefs
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke David Crowther raises a crucial point of contention: What I really want to do, is get back to the question of whether atheism is necessarily a “faith position”. If we generalize the term “faith” to mean believing or relying on something without absolute proof, than I think it is true to say that every possible [...]
Posted in Disambiguating Faith, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Faith, Faith, Featured, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Language, Religion and Science, Science, Science, Skepticism, Skepticism Tags: Beliefs, Certainty, Skepticism No Comments »Beyond Agnosticism: More Details About How I Know Various Kinds Of Gods Do Not Exist, Based On Scientific And Philosophical Reasons
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke While I agree with, and vigorously defend, the notion that there is an important difference between lacking a belief in gods (as an agnostic atheist) and believing there are no gods (as a gnostic atheist), I also think that atheists should not, based on the best available scientific evidence and philosophical arguments, merely lack belief [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Evidence, Evidence, Evolution, Evolution, Featured, God, God, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mind, Problem of Evil, Problem of Evil, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Skepticism, Skepticism, Why I Am Not A Christian, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Agnosticism, Personal God 9 Comments »Daily Hilarity: 40 Proofs Of God’s Existence
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Christianity, Christianity, Comedy, Comedy, God, God, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire, Videos No Comments »Mike Kaplan On Religion
June 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Pretty funny stuff. His response to the homophobic argument lie that homosexuality doesn’t exist in the natural world is perfect: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Religion, Religion Tags: Last Comic Standing, Mike Kaplan, Stand Up Comedy No Comments »Fraud And Schadenfreude: The You’re Not Helping Archives And Post-Mortems
June 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Quiche Moraine has a humorous poem up telling the tragedy of the You’re Not Helping blog and then a nice piece on Sock Puppets and a link to the archive where you can now relive the entire saga, up to the last post in which the big confession was made, which is not there in the [...]
Daily Hilarity: Children’s Guide To Religion
June 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Thanks to Das for the hilarious find: “Sometimes I think God drinks my tears and pees them back on my life.” Your Thoughts?
David Byrne On Architecture’s Contributions To Music’s Evolutions
June 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Making “Colonel Kagan” Cry
June 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Robert Merrill was an active-duty Marine Corps captain fresh from Fallujah when he arrived at Harvard Law in 2005. He returned to the military after graduating in 2008 and is currently a Marine captain and legal adviser to an infantry battalion in southern Afghanistan. He wrote a piece in The Washington Post that Kagan claims [...]
New Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard Affirms Her Non-Belief, Will Not Patronize Believers
June 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I love what she has to say and do not know why anyone, religious or irreligious, would prefer a faith panderer to this, even if the faithful politician was at least somewhat sincere: She says does not go through religious rituals for the sake of appearance. “I am not going to pretend a faith I [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, News, News Discussion, News Discussion, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Julia Gillard No Comments »Penn Jillette Again On The Difference Between Muslims And Christians In Taking Criticism
June 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I already highlighted Penn Jillette’s Vanity Fair interview in which he praised Christians for being better at taking criticism than Muslims, but this quote from his new Las Vegas Weekly interview, which I found via Boing Boing and Reddit, conveys his feelings as much as his thoughts, and those feelings are both depressing on the one [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Free Speech, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: Bullshit, Las Vegas Weekly, Penn and Teller, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Penn Jillette, Scientology No Comments »No, I’m Not An Atheist By Faith, Here Are My Arguments.
June 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Yesterday Ron Rosenbaum aggressively attacked atheism and defended agnosticism in Slate. He starts out with the familiar charge that atheists have “faith”. But faith in what? Atheists display a credulous and childlike faith, worship a certainty as yet unsupported by evidence—the certainty that they can or will be able to explain how and why the [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheism, Cosmology, Cosmology, Disambiguating Faith, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Ethics, Evidence, Evidence, Faith, Faith, Featured, God, God, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics, Physics, Religion, Religion 41 Comments »Having A Market Economy Vs. Becoming A Market Society
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A while back I posted a portion of this Michael Sandel speech but I never heard the entirety of it until this weekend when I was frantically re-embedding all the videos on the site. After embedding the Sandel clip, I listened to the whole speech and found it pretty great. The last two clips of [...]
Mr. Deity: The Prequel
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire Tags: Mr. Deity, Mr. Deity Prequel No Comments »Steven Pinker: “Today We Are Probably Living In The Most Peaceful Time In Our Existence”
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Pinker argues for this pro-modern thesis in his 2007 TED video: Your Thoughts?
Rejecting The Question, “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?”
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers calls attention today to a post from Sean Carroll from a couple of years ago, which reminds me in part of some of my own thinking about the confusion in the question of “why there is something rather than nothing?”. I had a Thomist philosophy professor who impressed upon me that for Aquinas [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheism, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Physics, Physics Tags: "Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?", Nothing, Sean Carroll No Comments »On Caring For Our Transsexual Friends
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Here’s an article with helpful reminders about the dangers of outing transsexual men and women without their consent and the misleading linguistic pitfalls by which people commonly, either wittingly or unwittingly, perpetuate misconceptions about them. For those unfamiliar with the discourse related to trans issues, by “cis” she is referring to non-trans people: So here’s [...]
Supreme Court Upholds University Non-Discrimination Statement
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Zack Ford explains: Here’s a brief recap of the situation: The University of California has a nondiscrimination policy. If you want to be recognized as a student group (i.e. use the university’s name, access funding for student groups, reserve campus spaces, etc.), you must abide by the nondiscrimination policy. The Christian Legal Society at Hastings [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Free Speech, Free Speech, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Politics, Politics, Religious Rights, Religious Rights Tags: United States Supreme Court, Zack Ford No Comments »
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