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The depravity of William Lane Craig’s apologetics on behalf of the genocides goes lower than I had ever imagined before and Robert Price just decimates him, from a moral and highly illuminating historical perspective, in audio which you can hear at The Buddha Is Not Serious. Your Thoughts?
Archive for July, 2010
Robert Price Pwns William Lane Craig On The Morality And Historicity Of The Canaanite Genocides In The Bible
July 6th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Religion 
Tags: Biblical Genocide, Canaanites, Christian Apologetics, Robert M. Price, William Lane Craig 
No Comments »Iranian Woman Sentenced To Stoning After Being Lashed 99 Times Until She “Confessed” Adultery
July 6th, 2010 Daniel Fincke CNN reports: Ashtiani, 42, will be buried up to her chest, according to an Amnesty International report citing the Iranian penal code. The stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately. Ashtiani, who is from the northern city of Tabriz, was [...]
Posted in News, Women's Issues, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Human Rights Abuses, Iran, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani No Comments »The Harmony Of Humility And Pride
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Previously I have argued that pride is the proper identification of the self with whatever excellently expresses, manifests, reflects, results from, or causes one’s own excellence. It is only fitting that we feel that we love and admire that which is good and love and admire it more the better it is and less the [...]
Posted in Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Autonomy, Autonomy, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Love, Love, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Virtues, Virtues Tags: Humility, Pride, Virtue of Humility, Virtue of Pride 10 Comments »How To Both Love And Debate People (And Knock Off The Attempts To “Save” Them)
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A somewhat unpleasantly hostile atheist is outraged that a nephew, with whom this atheist is admittedly not very close, announced on Facebook plans to study theology (in addition to political science). Here is what the atheist wants to say to the nephew “in a nutshell”: “In a nutshell, I think religion is: pernicious fraud and one [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Ethics, Love, Love, Religion, Religion, Virtues, Virtues Tags: Civility, Friendly Atheist, Judging People, Proseytization, Richard Wade, Value Judgments, Values No Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Implicit Faith
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In last night’s installment of the “Disambiguating Faith” series, I talked about the difference between, on the one hand, volitionally choosing to believe something that is either not rationally warranted or which is positively refuted by the available evidence, and, on the other hand, simply thinking one has rational warrant for one’s belief and yet [...]
Posted in Disambiguating Faith, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Faith, Faith, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Philosophy, Religion, Religion Tags: Cognitive Dissonance, Implicit Faith No Comments »Facebook + David Fincher + Nine Inch Nails = ?
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Trent Reznor has written the score for David Fincher’s The Social Network, which is all about Facebook. While Fincher has not made a film worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Fight Club since he made, um, Fight Club, since he actually made Fight Club, I still get excited whenever he has a [...]
Posted in Film, Film, Music Tags: David Fincher, Facebook, Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor No Comments »On The Virtue Of Patriotism
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I think the Maverick Philosopher‘s construal of the virtue of patriotism is generally on target and consistent with my framework for understanding the virtue of pride (which would be important since patriotism is, manifestly, a sub-species of pride) and humility (which I essentially wrote last week and am almost ready to post). The maverick one writes: [...]
Posted in Ethics, Love, Love, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Virtues, Virtues No Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Defending My Definition Of Faith As “Belief Or Trust Beyond Rational Warrant”
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Last week I responded to David Crowther’s argument that we should equally consider all beliefs that are not 100% certain to be “faith beliefs”. I argued that the word “belief” already covers the fact that we are fallible human beings and as such even our most nearly 100% certain propositions about the world are always [...]
Posted in Authority, Authority, Disambiguating Faith, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Faith, Faith, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion Tags: Faith As Loyalty, Faith as Trust, Loyalty, Trust, Trustworthiness, Volition, Volitional Disposition, Volitional Faith 9 Comments »Settled Matters?
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke NonStampCollector sums up what he takes to be the points which have been thoroughly resolved and should be non-issues in all debates between atheists and Christians going forward: Controversially, you will note, he takes mostly atheist points to have been vindicated beyond the point of reasonable disagreement. Is he right? Does he wave away any [...]
The Treaty Of Tripoli
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Article 11: Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [...]
George Washington’s Letter To Touro Synagogue
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The first president of our secular republic writes: To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport Rhode Island. Gentlemen, While I receive, with much satisfaction, your Address replete with expressions of affection and esteem; I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you, that I shall always retain a grateful remembrance of the cordial welcome I experienced in [...]
Real America
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Back in 2008, The Daily Show explored “real America” so those of us who don’t live there could learn from it. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'Understanding Real America in Wasilla www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Your Thoughts?
The Rise Of The New Right
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Chris Matthews documents: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit msnbc.com for breaking [...]
Posted in Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Videos Tags: Chris Matthews, Tea Party No Comments »Gay Bless America
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Videos Tags: America No Comments »Aimee Mann’s “4th Of July”
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Originally from her album Whatever, here is Aimee Mann’s song “4th of July” as performed on the DVD Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse: H/T: Balloon Juice for reminding me of the song today. Your Thoughts?
Born In The USA
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Videos Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Vietnam No Comments »Blogging As An Embodiment Of An American Ideal
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Andrew Sullivan argues: I believe the blogosphere first truly gained traction in America for a good reason. There is something about blogging’s freedom from the constraints of conventional journalism that captures an American ideal: civic engagement totally free of anyone else’s influence. It is an ideal of a fourth estate hostile to authorities public and [...]
Bursting The Chains Of Monkish Ignorance And Superstition
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them [...]
Posted in Atheism, Cultural Secularism, Political Secularism, Rationalism, Religion, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State Tags: Enlightenment Values, Founding Fathers Against Religion, Our Country's Founders, The Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson's Last Letter No Comments »Steamboat Willie
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Animation, Classic Animation, Disney, Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie No Comments »“It Can’t Happen Here”
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers calls our attention to Sinclair Lewis’s 75 year old words to warn us about how precious and precarious our freedom from theocracy and all other forms of tyranny really is: In 1935, Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel called “It Can’t Happen Here,” about an America taken over by a populist dictator. His hero [...]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Cases Against Islam And For America
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke “Islam” means “submission to the will of Allah”, a doctrine which requires from the individual to become a slave. In my view, it’s bad. Islam limits the imagination to what you can find in the Koran and to follow in the example of the prophet Mohammed. I think that’s bad and that’s what keeps people [...]
Posted in Islam, Politics, Religious Extremism, Videos Tags: Avi Lewis, Ayaan Hirsi Ali No Comments »The American Church And American Slavery
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Frederick Douglass wrote in “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (which can be found in A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865): The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. It has made itself the [...]
Posted in Christianity, Religion Tags: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", 1776-1865, A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, American Christianity, American Christianity in the Time of Slavery, American Slavery, Frederick Douglass, Religious Atrocities, Religious Corruption, Religious Hypocrisy No Comments »Two American Heroes Weigh In On Gay Marriage
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Repost from October 24, 2009. This World War II veteran is extremely inspiring: (via the ever-increasingly-awesome blog, SendaiAnonymous) Of course, he’s not the only hero with an opinion on this topic, so it is important to re-air her side too (which we’ve previously featured in full-length presentation): There you have it, two courageous American heroes [...]
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