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Without any reference to God. In honor of Flag Day in America, here is a clip from “Old Glory”, a 1939 Porky Pig cartoon which features a godless pledge in both print and recitation: Of course, Porky was not an atheist activist trying to prove a point, he just lived in that pre-1954 America that [...]
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Say The Pledge Of Allegiance With Porky Pig
June 14th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Cultural Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Religion, Secularism, Separation of Church and State 
Tags: "Old Glory", "Under God", Flag Day, Pledge of Allegiance, Pledge of Allegiance Porky Pig 1939, Pledge Without "Under God", Porky Learns Pledge of Allegiance, Porky Pig, Porky Pig in "Old Glory", Warner Brothers Cartoons 
No Comments »The Christian Logic Of Power, Pride, Humility, Free Will, Original Sin, And All-Consuming Divine Narcissism
June 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Pride has traditionally been disparaged by Christianity as not only a vice but as the chief vice and gone so far as to recommend humility as one of the highest virtues for a human being. The theological reasons for this begin with the way that traditional Christianity understands human beings primarily relationally, as in an [...]
Posted in Atheism, Bible, Christianity, Featured, God, Jesus, Religion, Virtues Tags: Adam and Eve, Augustine, Christian Logic of Power, Divine Narcissism, Eternal Servitude, Eternal Worship, Free Will, God's "Justice", God's Unfairness, Humility, Illogical Christian Doctrines, Immoral Christian Doctrines, Omnipotence, Original Sin, Personal God, Power, Pride, St. Augustine, Tyrant God, Vices No Comments »True And False In Adam And Eve
June 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Yesterday I replied to Mary Midgley’s article out this weekend, which claimed that evolutionary theory does not refute Genesis since Genesis was not meant to be a literal description of how God made the world. In reply I revisted remarks and videos that I posted last fall which overviewed the ways that even if we [...]
Daily Hilarity: Goofing On Seinfeld
June 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Howard Stern and Gilbert Gottfried lay into Jerry: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Videos Tags: Gilbert Gottfried, Howard Stern, Jerry Seinfeld No Comments »Slash Guitar Soloing The Godfather Theme
June 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Pretty great stuff, already viewed millions of times on YouTube: Your Thoughts?
How And Why To Defect From The Catholic Church
June 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke If the Catholic Church baptized you and you have neither personally defected nor been formally excommunicated, they still count you in their numbers when they quantify the scope of their influence by citing how many Catholics there are. If you do not want them considering you Catholic, here’s what you should do: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Christianity, Religion, Roman Catholic Church Tags: Defection From Catholic Church, zinnia jones, zj, ZJemptv No Comments »How Genesis Is Not Only Literally False, But Metaphorically False
June 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Mary Midgley argues that only the views of fundamentalist literalists are refuted by the fact of evolution: Appeals to evolution are only damaging to biblical literalism. Certainly the events described inGenesis 1 are not literally compatible with what science (from long before Darwin’s day) tells us about the antiquity of the Earth. But this is not [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Bible, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Evolution, Featured, God, New Atheism, Philosophy, Problem of Evil, Secularism Tags: Garden of Eden, Literal Readings of the Bible, Literalism, Mary Midgley, Metaphorical Interpretations of Religion, Original Sin 10 Comments »Changing Minds
June 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Steven Pinker compares current worries that the internet is changing how we think and making it more superficial to previous “moral panics” at the arrival of all other new media, from the printing press to newspapers to television. (And his examples might as well have gone all the way back to Plato’s mistrust of the [...]
Atheist Bullies
June 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke people had taken PZs post to the extreme of trying to invade this 18-year-old high school student’s personal life with focused harrassment and vituperation on not only an internet comment board, but in person via his personal phone number and *again very, very disturbing* actual physical home/family, as well.
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Pharyngula, PZ Myers, You're Not Helping, You're Not Helping Blog No Comments »Iceland Unanimously Approves Gay Marriage
June 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Iceland, the only country in the world to have an openly gay head of state, passed a law on Friday allowing same-sex partners to get married in a vote which met with no political resistance. The Althingi parliament voted 49 to zero to change the wording of marriage legislation to include matrimony between “man and [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Same Sex Marriage Tags: Iceland, Johanna Sigurdardottir No Comments »“Skipping Sunday School”: A Documentary On Parenting Without Religion And Growing Up Godless
June 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke (via Atheist Nexus) Learn more about the topic and the film here. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Film, Moral Psychology, Psychology, Secularism, Skepticism, Social Sciences Tags: "Skipping Sunday School", Atheist Parenting, brother richard haynes, Dale McGowan, Documentary, ed buckner, extended trailer, Growing Up Godless, indie film, Parenting Beyond Belief, reel, Roy Speckhardt, sizzle, todd stiefel, Trailer No Comments »Conservapedia: Pat Tillman “Could Not Have Been An Atheist”
June 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In this interesting piece on the eye opening extent to which American atheists on Atheist Nexus report fearing social consequences if they were to come out as atheists, Lauri Lebo points us to this Conservapedia article takes stupefyingly ignorant prejudice against atheists down to a level I’ve never seen before: As a teen, Pat kept [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos Tags: Atheist Nexus, Atheists In Foxholes, Atheists in Military, Conservapedia, Pat Tillman 5 Comments »What is fundamentalism?
June 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke by Sara Manasterska A couple of days ago, I saw Dan’s post of a Ayaan Hirsi Ali video, in which she was explaining that the willingness of fundamentalists to kill people cannot be only blamed on their destitute situation (for two reasons: 1. not all of the fundamentalists who become terrorists are poor, 2. not [...]
El Empleo
June 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A neat animated short: el Empleo from Caritas Hominum on Vimeo. Thanks to Qasim for the link. Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I have watched this trailer spoof a few dozen times since it was released three months ago. It’s simply brilliant. It’s quite possibly my favorite internet comedy video of all time. Your Thoughts?
Rejecting The Ex-Gay Movement
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Michael Bussee co-founded the “ex-gay” ministry Exodus International. In the videos below he explains the problems with the movement and how he came to reject it. Here are a bunch of the videos, and more can be found on his YouTube channel. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Same Sex Marriage Tags: Exodus International, Michael Bussee No Comments »Taliban Executes 7 Year Old Boy, Accusing Him Of Spying
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke So despicable. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Islam, Koran, News, Religion, Religious Extremism, Theocracy, Theocrats, World Affairs Tags: Religious Atrocities, Taliban No Comments »Wafa Sultan
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The TV appearance that made Wafa Sultan, author of A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam, famous and then criticism of her from the Muslim world, and an interview:
The Secret Powers Of Time
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Some interesting insights, but visually a blast to watch: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Sciences, Sociology, Videos Tags: Philip Zimbardo, Time No Comments »Family Research Council Lobbied Congress NOT To Denounce Uganda Bill
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Enraging: Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: The Death Of Lying
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Bill Maher in top form last week, covering all the ways you can get caught in a lie in the information age: Your Thoughts?
Comic Hackwork
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Being witless must be a bummer when you are pursuing a career in comedy. But turning to treating women obnoxiously with your oh-so-over-the-top pushy zaniness isn’t going to make up the difference: (via The Daily What)
22 Comments From Christopher Hitchens
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In an effort to hype Hitch-22: A Memoir, they’ve put together a short video recapping classic Hitchens quips: Your Thoughts?
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