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It is clear from my personal experience that nearly all Christians throw out the evangelist playbook when they deal with me. I suspect I’m not the only one of the growing demographic of serious and self-assured atheists that they are approaching differently. Aaron points me to this article which gives me a little hope for [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Evangelicals Revise Their Strategies For Relating To Serious Atheists
June 28th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Featured, Religion, Religion 
Tags: American Evangelicalism, Evangelical Pastors, Evangelists 
No Comments »Contortions Of Catholic Philosophy: Eve Tushnet Argues Gay Sex Is Not OK But Sex Changes Are
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Tushnet’s moral choice for herself and for other gays is celibacy or gender reassignment. Of course for some people, specifically some of the transgendered, a sex change is entirely appropriate and preferable to gay sex because from a gender(rather than a sex) perspective, those who are pre-op transgendered and are attracted to members of their [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Ethics, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Vices, LGBTQAA, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Sex, Teleology, Teleology 3 Comments »Obama’s New Avant-Garde Approach To His Weekly Address
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Camels With Hammers isn’t the only one shaking up its visual approach. Check out Othe White House’s new style of weekly video address: Weekly Address: Jobs Creation from White House Weekly Address on Vimeo. Trippy stuff. And it has a message. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Political Satire, Political Satire, Satire, Satire No Comments »“Ick Factor” Vs. “Projective Disgust”, Huckabee Vs. Nussbaum On The Source Of Aversion To Homosexuality
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In the New Yorker, Mike Huckabee recently used the phrase “ick factor” in describing responses to homosexuality and when attacked for it, claimed he was taking it from the LGBT movement and from the work of philosopher Martha Nussbaum. Huckabee’s self-defense comes from his website: The reaction over a reported quote from my most recent [...]
Bart Ehrman’s Concise, Informative Summation Of The Case Against New Testament Reliability On Jesus’s Alleged Resurrection
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A barrage of key details in less than 10 minutes. H/T: Common Sense Atheism Your Thoughts?
The Writer Who Literally Could Not Read
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The story of an incredible, counter-intuitive, assumption-rattling, neurological situation and the ingenious way that Howard Engel learned to make the best of it: If you would rather watch a cartoon version of the above, that’s here. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Psychology Tags: Cognitive Science, Howard Engel, Neuroscience, Oliver Sacks No Comments »Disempowering Black Women
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Deborrah Cooper has a lot to say about the counter-productive support the black church offers black women. Listen to her podcast on the subject here or read her blog post here. Your Thoughts?
You’re Not Helping Blog Confesses To Deception
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke “William”, the 23 year old male blogger behind You’re Not Helping had claimed to be several people, including an older woman (whose alleged presence he tried to use as a license to treat Ophelia Benson in a sexist manner). Earlier tonight he confessed to being just one blogger and to writing comments under pseudonyms to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Drama, Pseudonymous Blogging, Sockpuppet Blogs, You're Not Helping 6 Comments »Welcome To The New Home Of Camels With Hammers! Take The Tour!
June 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Dave and I are ecstatic to be able to finally move to our new hosting service for the blog today. You won’t have to change any bookmarks or anything as the main page will still have the same address and all the old posts are still reachable by their old links. There are three major [...]
The End Of The Camels With Hammers Dark Ages
June 26th, 2010 Daniel Fincke No new posts today as I have been and will be bogged down with preparations for the blog’s formal move to our new host. There are a lot of things to take care of before tomorrow. Tomorrow ends the “dark ages” at Camels With Hammers as we abandon our black and orange scheme entirely for [...]
Gay Couple Weds In DC After 60 Years Together
June 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The Advocate reports: After a 60-year romance, a gay couple in their 80s tied the knot in Washington, D.C., June 20. Henry Schalizki and Bob Davis exchanged their vows at the J. W. Marriott in Washington in front of 60 friends and family members, according to The Washington Post. The couple reveals that while Schalizki immediately [...]
Rational Passional Persuasion
June 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Andrew writes: So atheists don’t have emotions which inform them of the truth of something? And their rhetoric is completely dispassionate to the point where logic and reason are not fully objective? I have addressed the proper ways to consult the emotions in looking for truth in the post, Disambiguating Faith: Heart Over Reason, so for [...]
Hammer
June 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke VorJack writes: If Atheists have a God, the way many believers insist we have, it isn’t science. The God of atheists is Truth (or Reality, or the Universe, depending on how you want to spin it.) Science, reason and logic are only the means of finding the Truth, but they’re also the only means we’ve [...]
One Nation Indivisible
June 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Just Monday morning I was riding along a Florida Highway staring with irritation at a giant billboard looking just like the one below except it had the giant word “GOD” in the middle contributing to three phrases. Atop and to the left of the word God it said “One Nation Under”, on the left [...]
What Exactly Are We Supposed To Be Doing?
June 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke You’re Not Helping responds to my defense of the Freedom From Religion Foundation: Camels with Hammers has posted a bit of commentary on the Do Nothings. First and foremost, they cry foul on us for unjustly misrepresenting the goals of the FFRF Wait, no, first and foremost, I agreed with You’re Not Helping that it is unfair to accuse [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, New Atheism, Political Secularism, Religion, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State Tags: BP Oil Spill, Freedom From Religion Foundation, Louisiana Gulf Oil Spill, Louisiana Senate, Louisiana Senate Prayer Proclamation, Superstition, You're Not Helping No Comments »The Gulf Disaster: Prayer And Priorities
June 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Some atheists online have mocked calls for prayer made by Obama and legislators. You’re Not Helping argues that while there is clearly something awful about treating prayer as a substitute for practical action (such as when true believers in “faith healing” forgo actual medical treatment for prayer) not all those who turn to prayer are [...]
Judge This: No Gay Kissing On Modern Family?
June 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I am a bit late on this story but wanted to offer a contrary viewpoint to the dominant one of the outraged blogosphere. Though I have never seen the show, I was interested in the controversy over the show Modern Family which apparently features a gay couple among its lead characters. The controversy centers not [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Ethics, Featured, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Love, Moral Psychology, Morality, News Discussion, Pop Culture, Prejudice, Psychology, Same Sex Marriage, Sex, TV Tags: ABC, Modern Family, Waymon Hudson No Comments »Lord Mayor Bans Lord Mayor Bans “Intrusive And Outdated” Christian Prayers Before Council Meetings
June 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke From the Telegraph: Colin Hall said religion had no role to play in the conduct of council business. Mr Hall, who has just taken over the mayorship in Leicester, said the “majority” of councillors and city council staff were not practising Christians therefore there was little point in having the prayers, which were introduced in [...]
Obama Acknowledges Two Father Families In Father’s Day Proclamation, Christian Right Flips Out
June 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Secular News Daily reports: As part of his Sunday proclamation, Obama included a reference to “two fathers”: Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian. Tim Wildmon, president of the far-right American Family Association, responded [...]
Putting Social Brain Mechanisms To The Task Of Figuring Out Unknown Natural Phenomena
June 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Last fall, Wired reported on a study published last fall (“Neuroanatomical Variability of Religiosity.” By Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Aron K. Barbey, Michael Su, Frank Krueger, Jordan Grafman. Public Library of Science ONE, Vol. 4 No. 9, September 28, 2009) which finds religious people have extra activity in the neurological brain regions indispensable for social intelligence: Brain scans [...]
Posted in God, Psychology, Religion, Social Psychology, Social Sciences Tags: Cognitive Science No Comments »Spanish Senate Votes To Ban The Burqa
June 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke The New York Times reports: MADRID — In a significant escalation of Spain’s debate over how to handle radical Islam, the Senate on Wednesday narrowly and unexpectedly approved a motion to ban Muslim women from wearing in public the burqa or other garments that cover the whole body. The vote, 131 to 129, was another setback [...]
Daily Hilarity: BP Putting People To Work! (Scrubbing Pelicans…)
June 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Political Satire, Politics, Satire Tags: Barely Political, Tony Hayword No Comments »Starvation
June 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke This ripped my guts out to watch. Thanks to the “Let’s Lodge A Complaint Against God” Facebook page for the video. But the takeaway from this video should not be just another reiteration of the problem of evil, it should be refreshed urgency in our thinking about proactively remedying the problem through humane human efforts. [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, World Affairs Tags: DestitutionS, Peter Singer, Poverty, Starvation, The Life You Can Save, Uganda No Comments »“Dawkins Is Not A Priest”: A Heated Facebook Exchange
June 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Last spring a friend asked me to come over to her Facebook wall where she had posted a Sam Harris video (on his views on science’s ability to answer moral questions, which I will get around to analyzing here some day). Though not an outspoken atheist herself, she had received a lot of anti-atheist fervor from [...]
Posted in Atheism, New Atheism, Secularism Tags: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Stephen Hawking No Comments »“Ex-Gay” Adam Hood Argues That Homosexuality Is A Sin
June 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke To understand how this kind of self-loathing is manipulated into being please read A Gay Blogger Undercover At “Love Won Out” and for insight into how it can be overcome, watch Rejecting The Ex-Gay Movement. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Religion, Religious Extremism Tags: Adam Hood, Ex-Gay Movement, Gay Self-Hatred No Comments »
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