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Archive for July, 2010
“No Longer Quivering”
July 29th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Christianity, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Religion, Secularism, Women's Issues 
Tags: Ex-fundamentalist, Quiverfull, Quiverfull Movement 
1 Comment »Your Thoughts?
July 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I apologize for the sparse original writing the last two weeks. Between going on a brief vacation to Chicago for the Pitchfork Music Festival and now getting mired in all the details and grunt work involved in packing and moving from the Bronx to Manhattan, the all important rhythm which enables my usual rapid fire [...]
Are Jesus And God Really The Same Being?
July 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Nonstampcollector’s video “What Would Yahweh Do?” gives the strong impression they’re not. Your Thoughts?
My Perfectionistic, Egoistic AND Universalistic, Indirect Consequentialism (And Contrasts With Other Kinds)
July 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A consequentialist assesses the ultimate worth of all the various features of our ethical lives according to whether or not they bring about some specific intrinsic good or goods that the consequentialist judges to be of primary value. All the various valuable features of our lives have their ultimate value with respect to how they [...]
Posted in Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Metaethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Teleology, Teleology, Virtues, Virtues Tags: Act Consequentialism, Act Utilitarianism, Consequentialism, Direct Consequentialism, Hedonism, Hedonistic Consequentialism, Indirect Consequentialism, Kant, Perfectionism, Perfectionistic Consequentialism, Pleasure, Practical Contradictions, Rule Consequentialism, Rule Utilitarianism, Self-Sacrifice, Utilitarianism 15 Comments »Rape By Deception
July 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke ProfMTH explores legal definitions that define sex acquired through fraud as rape: I have argued before, formally speaking, deception is a kind of force. Laws which treat procurement of sex through fraud as a form of rape seem to stem from similar considerations of the relationship between at least certain forms of deliberate deceit and [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Rape, Women's Rights, Women's Rights, Women's Rights, Women's Rights Tags: ProfMTH, Susan Esteridge 4 Comments »The Lighthearted Philosophers’ Society
July 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I just got this call for submissions for an upcoming philosophy conference which sounds like a most amusing prospect: Lighthearted Philosophers’ Society 4th Annual Conference Date: October 15 – 16, 2010 (Fri & Sat) Location: Tampa, Florida (Site: TBA) (That’s right: a beach-adjacent conference in October!) Submission Deadline: August 15, 2010 The Lighthearted Philosophers Society [...]
William Shatner As Stanley Milgram In The 1975 Film “The Tenth Level”
July 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Stanley Milgram was the psychologist who performed the famous obedience experiments which involved getting normal people to go through with administering (what they thought were) extraordinarily painful shocks to other people out of deference to calm but firm orders from an authority figure. Now Mind Hacks points our attention to The Tenth Level a fascinating bit [...]
Sundaily Hilarity: God’s Limits
July 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comic Strips, Hilarious, Religious Satire, Satire Tags: Atheist Cartoons, Atheist Cartoons.com No Comments »Christopher Hitchens: “Some Confessions and Contradictions”
July 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Hitchens discusses his memoir Hitch-22: Your Thoughts?
Maddow Vs. O’Reilly
July 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Dr. Maddow slaps Mr. O’Reilly back most enjoyably: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Your Thoughts?
Posted in News Discussion, News Discussion, Racism Tags: Bill O'Reilly, FOX News, Media, Race-Baiting, Rachel Maddow 4 Comments »Daily Hilarity: When Larry Met Deity
July 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire Tags: Mr. Deity No Comments »A Tale From A Death Bed
July 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Clergy Guy presents another poignant slice of a part of life to which clergy have unusual access: It was one of those late night vigils where the family was trying to find the resolve to turn off the machinery that kept the man breathing. His wife was hysterical, refusing to believe his brain was gone. [...]
The Tea Party’s Forebears
July 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke (via) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Comedy, Comedy, Law & Politics, Political Satire, Political Satire, Politics, Politics, Racism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Federalism, Ku Klux Klan, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, Mock The Dummy, States Rights, Suffregates, Tea Party, Tea Party Movement, Woodrow Wilson 1 Comment »ZJ Condemns Treatment Of Anti-Gay Rights Activist, Calls For More Civilized Tactics
July 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke In response to the harrowing ordeal that an anti-gay rights activist endured recently (which I blogged about yesterday), ZJ is calling for introspection and a reconsideration of tactics from the gay community: Your Thoughts?
Tormented By Umbrellas
July 20th, 2010 Daniel Fincke More pathetic attempts from the anti-gay-marriage forces to paint themselves as somehow the real victims of injustice: Will they ever make anything that approaches the semblance of a legitimate argument or is it just impossible to dress up irrational disgust, fear, hatred, and disinterest in gays’ well being as anything than it is? Your Thoughts?
Dan Dennett’s Response To Rick Warren
July 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke 4 years old, but evergreen: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Evolution, Evolution, Religion Tags: Daniel Dennett, Rick Warren No Comments »When Storm Troopers Die In The Wild
July 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Scavenger by *Balakov on deviantART Your Thoughts?
The Implausible And Disturbing Message The Christian Tells Her Child
July 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The Thinking Atheist presents “Welcome To This World” Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Christianity, Christianity, Faith, Faith, Religion, Religion Tags: Delianne Forget, The Thinking Atheist 1 Comment »Larry David On Religion (Post Fixed)
July 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Hi everyone, I apologize that earlier when I tried to post this video, it came up as just code and not an actual video. The blog was on automatic pilot as I was on vacation and so I missed the error. Here now is the video promised to you yesterday afternoon. Your Thoughts?
Stephen Fry On “Big Think”
July 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke An hour with Stephen Fry: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Videos Tags: Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry No Comments »On God Warriors
July 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke At first I thought this was funny, figured it might make a good “Sundaily Hilarity”, but the longer I watched and the more I saw the pain this woman was causing her children and the obvious pain she was in herself, the clearer it became that there is nothing funny about this at all. Clearly [...]
Mikey Weinstein’s Battle Against Christian Supremacism In The U.S. Military
July 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Truth Out has a long, must-read profile of Mikey Weinstein, a Jewish veteran who runs the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. After a disturbing account of the blatant anti-semitic harassment both he and his son experienced, the article discusses some of the details of the nature of the military’s Christian fundamentalism and how it came to [...]
On Confronting The Harsh Truths About Death
July 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth -that most of us go to Hell and burn eternally – but I didn’t want to upset him. More deep [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire Tags: Deep Thoughts By Jack Handy, Jack Handy 1 Comment »Gay Sex And Reality
July 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Recently a University of Illinois adjunct professor in a course on Catholicism got into unfairly lost his job over expressing his philosophical opposition to homosexuality in an e-mail to his student in what seems to me like a pretty clear violation of academic freedom. As to the substance of his arguments though, PZ Myers does [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Ethics, Ethics, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, PZ Myers, PZ Myers, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Sex, Teleology, Teleology Tags: Natural Law Theory, University of Illinois, William Howell No Comments »
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