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Thank you, everyone who has been there, in whatever way whatsoever in which you have been there, during the last ten crucial years of my life. I passionately love my life, and when I say that I mean I love many, many of you and am grateful still to the rest. I would jump at [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Some Personal Reflections On New Year’s Eve
December 31st, 2010 
Daniel Fincke There is only one holiday that approaches the status of holy day in my heart and mind and it is the one we celebrate during the late hours of tonight, across midnight, and into the early hours of tomorrow. As temporal beings whose every experience is temporally constructed time is fundamentally constitutive to our lives. [...]
On Gary Bauer’s Claims That American Muslims Get Better Treatment Than American Christians
December 31st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Gary Bauer makes the ludicrous case that left wing “elites” and Muslims have a common cause of destroying Judeo-Christian culture and so have conspired together to make America more hospitable to Muslims than to Christians: If Muslims were treated like Christians, Muslims would be mocked by late night TV talk show hosts and lampooned in [...]
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Religion, Religion, Theocrats, Theocrats 
Tags: Gary Bauer, Tolerance 
4 Comments »Support The Secular Student Alliance
December 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke If you’re a secular college student, consider getting involved with the Secular Student Alliance for a great opportunity to network fellow secularists, to do stereotype-dispelling charity projects, promote rational thought, and learn more about post-religious ways of thinking. See if your school has a group and if they do not, consider starting one: And whether [...]
Near Mindedness Vs. Far Mindedness
December 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Robin Hanson explores the causes and nature of our double-mindedness that makes us talk a good game about long term goals and make grand long term commitments only to default to short term preferences in practice: All animals need different ways to reason about things up close vs. far away. And because humans are especially [...]
On The Uses And Abuses Of Religion In Art: The Lines Between Expression, Tolerance, Respect, Fear, and Torture
December 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Gary Bauer thinks Christians aren’t treated as well as Muslims in America because there are greater quantities of art works which use Christian symbols in ways that offend Bauer’s sensibilities than there are ones that use Muslim symbols in ways that would offend Muslim sensibilities: in a variety of contexts, American Muslims are treated better [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Featured, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Islam, Islam, Koran, Koran, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics Tags: Blasphemy, Christianity, Cruelty, Danish Cartoons, Gary Bauer, Mockery, Muslims, Offending Religious Sensibilities, Respect vs. Fear, South Park, South Park Depicting Mohammed, Tolerance, Torture 3 Comments »How Christian Beliefs And Values Are No More Creditable With America’s Founding Than Islamic Ones
December 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Gary Bauer displays a hilarious sense of grievance in his article “If Christians Were Treated Like Muslims”. I want to take a few posts to fully dissect all of its self-absorbed, phony, distorted victimhood. The first three sentences merited a full post themselves, so here we go. Bauer starts out with the following falsehood: Few [...]
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, Islam, Koran, Koran, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Religion, Religion, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats Tags: American History, Declaration of Independence, Dr. Gary Bauer, Gary Bauer, Intolerance, Persecution Complex, Tolerance 2 Comments »Disambiguating Faith: The Evidence-Impervious Agnostic Theists
December 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A vast majority of believers, though probably not all, believed in God before they ever encountered any arguments for its existence. For obvious cultural and psychological reasons, the concept of God is intuitively understandable and believable for most children and by far most believers start believing in childhood. Even those who spend a short time as [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheism, Disambiguating Faith, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Evidence, Faith, Faith, Featured, God, God, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Why I Am Not A Christian, Why I Am Not A Christian 21 Comments »Daily Hilarity: The Bizarre World Of The Bisexual
December 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA Tags: Anti-bisexual attitudes of gays, bisexual, Bisexuality, Mr. Sharp No Comments »Daily Hilarity: The Splendid Chaps Of The Military
December 26th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Christmas Daily Hilarity: Jesus The Magician
December 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Dawkins Debunking The Story Of Noah’s Ark
December 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Bible, Bible, Biology, Biology, Evolution, Evolution, Religion, Religion, Science Tags: Richard Dawkins No Comments »Christmas Daily Hilarity: “Joseph, You Are Not The Father”
December 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Religion, Religion, Religious Satire, Religious Satire Tags: Joseph, Maury Povich, Virgin Birth No Comments »Christmas Daily Hilarity: Garfunkel and Oates’s “Present Face”
December 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Charitable Believers Clear Snow From Atheist’s Car
December 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Godless Girl wrote a simple inspiring message in the snow on her car window and it motivated some goodhearted, presumably religious, strangers who saw it to clean off her window for her! Before: After: Seriously though, as a friend noted on my Facebook wall when I posted this story, she probaby could have gotten the [...]
How Belief In “Theistic Evolution” Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism
December 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke One often hears the refrain that it’s possible to believe in both God and evolution. And it is in fact true, both psychologically and, more importantly, logically, that one may both believe in God and in evolution. Psychologically we have ample evidence that plenty of people believe in both and logically it is clear that [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Biology, Biology, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Cosmology, Cosmology, Creationism, Creationism, Divine Intervention, Divine Intervention, Evolution, Evolution, Featured, God, God, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Science, Secularism 12 Comments »The (Jesuit) Father Of The Big Bang Theory
December 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Recently, on Facebook, I boiled down my philosophical and scientific objections to theistic evolution to pithy status update size and received a good deal of discussion as a result. I plan to edit, reprint, and possibly expand upon my remarks on theistic evolution on Camels With Hammers soon. But in the meantime, I wanted to [...]
Posted in Atheism, Cosmology, Cosmology, Featured, God, God, Physics, Physics, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Science, Science Tags: Albert Einstein, Big Bang Theory, Georges Lemaître No Comments »Why Free Time Should Not Be Labeled “Optional”
December 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Lily reflects on her failures to reflect this summer: Whenever I’m extremely busy, free time is always the first thing to go. I hang onto sleep and food and cleanliness for as long as I can, but I had always seen free time as superfluous, expendable, and willingly sacrificed. That’s what I did this summer, [...]
True Believers In Heaven
December 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Do you really believe in heaven? Seriously? Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Satire, Satire Tags: Heaven No Comments »The Return Of Camels With Hammers
December 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I’d like to extend my sincere gratitude and apologies to all of you who have continued to check in periodically to see if there are any updates, even as for a while there have been hardly any. This semester my schedule made blogging unusually difficult as I spent a full 28 hours a week commuting [...]
Barney Frank Owns Up To The “Radical Homosexual Agenda”
December 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Congratulations to all the brave young men and women who will now be treated as honorably as they deserve by their country with the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Hopefully soon the day will come when all our gay fellow citizens will be treated with equal rights under the law and with the equal [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Politics, Politics Tags: Barney Frank No Comments »Shep Smith Lambasts Senators For Filibustering 9/11 First Responders Bill
December 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Below Shepard Smith, explicitly following Jon Stewart’s passionate lead, excoriates the Republicans in the Senate who are filibustering the Zadroga bill, which is a bill designed to assist the many 9/11 first responders who are suffering illnesses related to their service at Ground Zero: Jon Stewart spent his entire show Thursday night discussing this disgrace, including [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: 9/11, 9/11 First Responders, FOX News, Jon Stewart, Republican Senators, Republicans, Shepard Smith, The Daily Show No Comments »Sundaily Hilarity: Hammered Camel?
December 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Many thanks to vorjak. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Hilarious, Unintentional Comedy, Unintentional Comedy Tags: Christmas, Nativity 1 Comment »Daily Hilarity: The Real Reasons To Go To Grad School?
December 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Harsh: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Your Thoughts?
The Most Effective Rhetorical Strategies For Arguments
Megan McArdle offered some of her blog’s most loyal and esteemed commenters the opportunity to write posts for Christmas. Rob Lyman seized the opportunity to write some spectacular explanations of the most effective rhetorical strategies for winning arguments online (or, I think, anywhere that you are arguing with others watching). Read his helpful (and often [...]