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Luke Muelhauser confronts William Lane Craig with the inconsistency between his divine command interpretation of morality, according to which things are moral or immoral as solely determined by God’s calling them as such, on the one hand, and his insistence that in this way God is the source of “objective morality”: But let us say [...]
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Are Divine Command Theory And Objective Morality Mutually Exclusive Concepts?
June 9th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Arguments for the Existence of God, Christianity, Ethics, Metaethics, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Religion 
Tags: Christian Apologetics, Common Sense Atheism, Divine Command Theory, Luke Muelhauser, Objective Morality, Religious Apologetics, Subjective Morality, William Lane Craig 
7 Comments »Creepy Pro-Geert Wilders Propaganda
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I’m as troubled by Islam’s authoritarianism of thought and practice as any one but Christian crusading is is not much better. This is called “Geert Wilders The Lion Heart” and unless it’s just an exceptional satire, it’s a really unsettling, unrestrained glorification of Christian warfare against Islam. How long until the Christian theocrats begin embracing [...]
Posted in Christianity, Islam, Religion, World Affairs Tags: Contemporary Crusaders, Crusades, Geert Wilders, Propaganda No Comments »Exit Polls Say Geert Wilders’s Anti-Islamic Party Doubles Its Seats In Dutch Parliament
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The Guardian: The Netherlands’ anti-Islamic MP Geert Wilders appeared on course for major gains in a general election yesterday, more than doubling his party’s seats in the Dutch parliament and overtaking the incumbent ruling Christian Democrats, according to exit polls last night. Wilders’ Freedom party looked to have taken third place in a close-fought election [...]
Posted in Islam, News, News Discussion, Politics, Videos, World Affairs Tags: Geert Wilders, Netherlands No Comments »Children Of Lesbians Did Better In Study Than Traditionally Raised Children
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Nanette Gartrell and Henny Bos (author of Parenting in Planned Lesbian Families (UvA Proefschriften) have the authored the first longitudinal study to track the outcomes of children created through artificial insemination through their teenage years. The results? The authors found that children raised by lesbian mothers — whether the mother was partnered or single — [...]
God, Science, And Sanity: A Panel On Religion And Psychology
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A panel of Richard Dawkins, Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio, Professor Patrick McGorry, Steve Fielding, and Julie Bishop discusses psychology and religion. The reaction to the creationism of the Australian parliamentarian from the audience is heartening. Your Thoughts?
Should Church Vandalism Be Considered A Hate Crime?
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke That’s essentially what New York state senator Jeffrey Klein is arguing when he explains proposed legislation to make vandalizing a house of worship a felony. And I agree with him. Desecrating the grounds of institutions that represent specific subset communities is not simply attacking the specific owners of that property but sending a threatening message [...]
Michael Sandel On “The Lost Art Of Democratic Debate”
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A good video from Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel, who recently wrote a book on justice for a popular audience, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, and who last year released on YouTube high production value videos encapsulating his lectures for his standard introductory level ethics class at Harvard. You can start watching those videos here. [...]
Posted in Epistemology, Ethics, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Historical Philosophy, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Law, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Same Sex Marriage, Teleology, Virtues Tags: Aristotle, Aristotle's Theory of Justice, Democratic Debate, Golf, Harvard University, Justice, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice John Paul Stevens, Michael Sandel, Phronesis, Sports, United States Supreme Court No Comments »Obama To Make Reassuring Eye Contact With Every Last American
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Obama turns to his strength: ROCKLAND, ME—In an attempt to convince an anxious populace that his legislative agenda is working and that everything is going to be all right, President Barack Obama embarked on a 50-state, 30,000-town tour Monday during which he plans to gaze assuredly into the eyes of each American citizen, one at [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Political Satire, Politics, Satire Tags: The Onion No Comments »Theocratic “Dominionist” Janet Porter Goes Down Swinging
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Janet Porter recently lost her radio program for her increasingly dominionist theology, which aims to further politicize Christianity and Christianize the United States government. It was Christians who opposed her and then Christians who fired her. In a new article comparing secularists to Nazis, she argues that her Christian enemies who oppose dominionism are the [...]
Global Peace Index Shows Least Religious Countries Among Most Peaceful, Highly Religious Countries Among The Least Peaceful
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Canterbury Atheist points out that the world’s top ten peaceful nations on the 2010 Global Peace Index are among the world’s least religious nations. CORRECTION: I should have written, among the world’s top ten peaceful nations are a high percentage of the world’s least religious countries, measured in terms of personal religiosity metrics (like reports [...]
Posted in Atheism, Cultural Secularism, Political Secularism, Religion, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State Tags: 2010 Global Peace Index, Afghanistan, Austria, Chad, Congo, Denmark, Finland, Georgia, Global Peace Index, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, Sudan, Sweden 14 Comments »Why A Biologist Says We Should Kill, Not Clean, The Oil-Covered Birds
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Tree Hugger explains the advice of Sylvia Gaus, biologist at the Wattenmeer National Park along the North Sea in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, in Der Spiegel: This may shock many, and the advice certainly appears contrary to that of the myriad conservationists who have set up centers around the Gulf to care for oiled birds. Despite [...]
Posted in Biology, News Discussion Tags: BP Oil Spill, Cleaning Birds, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Oil Covered Birds, Sylvia Gaus, Treehugger No Comments »“In My Mother’s House, There Is Still God!”
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Johnson Brown explains: This scene is from the 2008 TV remake of the 1961 film, A Raisin in the Sun (an adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s play). “In my mother’s house, there is still god!” In this version, they left out the best line: “All the tyranny in the world will never put a god up [...]
Ebert On The Arizona Mural Story
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Sometimes, there’s just no excerpting from a piece, you just have to insist people read the whole thing. Read Roger Ebert’s whole piece on how we come to think and feel as we do with respect to race and the consequences of what we do about it. Your Thoughts?
Thank God For The New Atheists?
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Reverend Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World thinks that the New Atheists are really the new prophets. The Infidel Guy Show interviewed him a couple weeks ago for an hour. In the audio, he argues that God is not [...]
The Right To Apostasy
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Former Muslims United claim the right to apostasy for American Muslims is in danger: FMU has asked me to note two corrections that need to be made in the article below: Wafa Sultan is the president of Former Muslims United. The right of apostasy pledge was sent to 111 Muslim leaders, not groups. In the fall [...]
Star Wars Corsets
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke You can own both of these for just the low prices of $600 and $500! (via) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Hilarious, Pop Culture Tags: Darth Vader, Novelties, Princess Leia, Star Wars, Storm Troopers No Comments »Who Super-Soaks The Watch Dogs?
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Glenn Greenwald rightly excoriates members of the press for frolicking with the members of the White House last weekend: On Friday, CNN’s Ed Henry posted a series of giggly, adolescent updates on his Twitter feed, describing the events that took place at a “beach” party thrown by Joe Biden, at the Vice President’s mansion, for various [...]
Posted in News Discussion, Politics Tags: Ed Henry, Glenn Greenwald, Joe Biden, Marc Ambinder, Media Criticism, Rahm Emanuel, Wolf Blitzer No Comments »How Apologetic Goals Compromise Christian Apologists’ Historical Research
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Appealing to insights of the great theologian Paul Tillich, Robert M. Price takes on the corruption of research when it has a defensive agenda. (Sadly, this video was taken down from YouTube) via Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, History, Jesus, Religion Tags: Apologetics, Paul Tillich, Religious Apologetics, Resurrection of Jesus, Robert M. Price No Comments »Bertrand Russell’s “Why I Am Not A Christian”
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Russell reads his classic, Why I Am Not A Christian. I find his reading and his rhetoric riveting. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Bible, Christianity, New Atheism, Religion Tags: Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not A Christian No Comments »Take An Advance Listen To Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’ New Album, Mojo
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Here. The album will be released June 15. Your Thoughts?
Stephen Hawking: Science Will Win Against Religion
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In writing: When asked by ABC News’ Diane Sawyer about the biggest mystery he’d like solved, he said, “I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.” “What could define God [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most [...]
Make Homosexuals Marry
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Starring Mike White, writer and co-star of two of my favorite movies (The Good Girl and School of Rock), a look at the realities of gay marriage: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Parody, Same Sex Marriage Tags: Justin Long, Mike White, Nora Dunn, Tom Arnold No Comments »Lars Vilks, Recently Attacked At Speech, Joins “Kill Lars Vilks” Facebook Group
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke After he drew Mohammed with the body of a dog, an Al-Qaeda front organization put a bounty on Lars Vilks’s head: $100,000 for killing him and $150,000 if it’s a death by slit throat. He was recently attacked at a talk he was giving when he showed photos of his controversy riling drawings. Now he [...]
Daily Hilarity: A Commercial
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke This clip has been viewed 16,707,271 times on YouTube. But I’m sure someone out there is like me and hasn’t seen it before tonight: Your Thoughts?
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