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Anderson Cooper interviews Montana State Representative Bob Wagner who refuses to admit that he knows either that President Obama was born in America or even that being born in America makes someone a citizen: Stupefyingly, Representative Wagner is representative of more than 50% of likely Republican primary voters: Birthers make a majority among those voters [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Birther Madness In The Republican Party
February 16th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Return To Sender: A Round Up Of Atheist Replies To Rabbi Jacobs's Open Letter To Atheists
February 16th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Diaphanitas points us to a boiled down version of the Rabbi Adam Jacobs’s open letter to the atheist community: Dear Atheists, I would like to tone-troll. There are no true atheists. Id also like to appeal to authority. I used to be an atheist, and anyway atheists need to shut up. Hitler was an atheist*, so [...]
Why Philosophers Should Publish In Science Journals
February 16th, 2011 Daniel Fincke John Wilkins shares his experience: Generally my papers cause a mild reaction – like a dose of poison ivy. But i just had a paper published in Zootaxa, a mild mannered systematics journal, and as well as a two week turnaround, unheard of in philosophy (my last big paper took a year and a half), within [...]
What Can An Atheist Love In People's Religiosity?
February 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Earlier today, I argued that atheists can vigorously and outspokenly oppose bad faith-based ideas, values, and behaviors, but still love other aspects of the religiosity of their religious friends (and of religious people in general). I argued that religion can be as central to personal identity formation as sexuality is and that to indiscriminately hate [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Prejudice, Religion, Religion, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Virtues, Virtues 
14 Comments »Daily Hilarity: 130 Bands In A Less Than 4 Minute Love Story
February 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Pretty amusing: Your Thoughts?
Can You Really Love Religious People If You Hate Their Religion?
February 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Atheists do not exactly claim to “love sinners but hate sins” (if for no other reason than that most, if not all, of us reject the category of “sin” as a meaningful or valuable way to talk about ethical failure). Also, atheists may be more realistic than to think that we really do, or feasibly [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Prejudice, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Virtues, Virtues 11 Comments »Innocent Woman Tased
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Is it always excessive force to taser someone who is not posing a serious physical risk to others? Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, News, News Discussion, News Discussion 
Tags: Liberal Viewer, Stephen Colbert No Comments »Why "Loving The Sinner But Hating The Sin" Is Not An Option When Dealing With Gay People
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Many a homophobic religious person has infamously claimed that when it comes to gays he “loves the sinner but hates the sin” and many a defender of the full dignity and ethical lives of gay people has judged such a compromised offer of love inadequate (if not insincere). This cannot be because it is impossible [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, LGBTQAA, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Prejudice, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Sex Tags: Hate The Sin But Love The Sinner, Love The Sinner But Hate The Sin 12 Comments »Bill Maher: Michelle Obama Is Not Stalin
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke What Is Love? Here's My Theory.
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is a renamed repost of July 24, 2009 post called “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways”: In the first part of this series, I explored the reasons for rejecting “unconditional” love as a candidate for the ideal essence of love since as a concept it is riddled with numerous problems [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Virtues, Virtues 3 Comments »My Atheistic Reply To Rabbi Adam Jacobs's Open Letter To The Atheist Community
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Oh boy, I just love getting letters! So, you can only imagine my enthusiasm at getting An Open Letter To The Atheist Community from a Rabbi Adam Jacobs of The Huffington Post Synagogue: My dear atheist friend, Gosh, he holds me dear! The first point I’d like to explore is that there really are no [...]
Jonathan Glover On The Consciences Of Sociopaths
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The moral philosopher Jonathan Glover interviewed a number of anti-social people, including psychopaths, who have committed serious crimes and live in secure hospitals in order to investigate how they think about right and wrong and what sort of conscience they have. He thinks they have a conscience, but one unlike others’. They have strong feelings [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology Tags: Determinism, Ethics of Punishment, Fairness, Free Will, Jonathan Glover, Moral Responsibility, Moral Sympathy, Nigel Warburton, Philosophy Bites, Psychopaths, Psychopathy, Punishment, Resentment and Morality, Respect, Responsibility, Retribution, Sociopaths, Sociopathy, Sympathy No Comments »Valentine's Daily Hilarity: How To Write A Love Song
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke It’s Valentine’s Day and if you’re a cheap bastard who has not yet figured out what to get your beloved for $0, there’s still time to write her a song following these familiar steps: The Axis of Awesome: How to Write a Love Song – watch more funny videos Thanks to @FunnyVideos on Twitter. Your [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Love, Love, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire, Videos 1 Comment »Happy Valentine's Day!
February 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Via, and alluding to this: Your Thoughts?
You Might Be An Atheist Even If You Hate The New Atheists
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke There are a lot of people who dislike Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, PZ Myers, and other prominent “New Atheists” (or, as some prefer “Gnu Atheists”) so much that they do not want to be called atheists. John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts had a post (and many remarks in the comments section [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Featured, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, PZ Myers, PZ Myers, Secularism Tags: Agnosticism, Deism, Gnu Atheism, John Wilkins 7 Comments »Decemberists Play R.E.M.'s "Cuyahoga"
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke And it really sounds as though it was written for them. Just listen. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music Reviews, Music Reviews Tags: Cuyahoga, Decemberists, R.E.M. 1 Comment »Bill O'Reilly Science Goes Twitter With #billoscience
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Twitter’s latest meme are Bill O’Reilly science mysteries: misselisebrown EB I’m going to attempt to make a hashtag game called #billoscience. I’ll start. (ahem) Bread goes in, toast comes out. Can’t explain it. @misselisebrown EBWhy do we have football and Mars doesn’t? How’d it get there? #billoscience @phillygirl64MarthaFood goes in…poo comes out you can’t explain that#billoscience Sun [...]
Loving Doubt's Journey To Atheism Part 1: "Mishearing God"
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke As Marty Pribble correctly notes, another major atheist YouTube video maker whom I unfortunately omitted (because I did not yet know her) when I made my list of Top 10 Favorite Atheist/Rationalist YouTube Channels a while back was Loving Doubt, who chronicled all the steps of her deconversion from being a Pentecostal Christian in her [...]
Questions Intelligent Christians Must Answer
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Earlier tonight on the internets I went around promoting a list I made a while ago of my then 10 favorite atheist YouTube video makers. One glaring omission from that list was the great ProfMTH, so I felt obliged to call attention to one of his videos tonight: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus, Miracles, Miracles, Prayer, Prayer, Videos No Comments »Fear Of Middle Eastern Democracy
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Watching this video, I’m starting to fear those who have seemingly no belief in either the intrinsic value or potential effectiveness of democracy as much as I fear Islamism: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Your Thoughts?
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, News, News Discussion, News Discussion, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Conservatives, Democracy, Egypt, Glenn Beck, Hosni Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, Rachel Maddow 1 Comment »6 Year Old Swedish Boy Stabbed With (Blunt) Knife for Wearing Pink
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Fortunately he is okay: The newspaper names the boy as Oskar and reports how his liking for pink clothing, ballet and nail polish left him exposed to regular bullying from other boys in his playgroup. The newspaper reported that he had also complained to his parents that he had been subjected to taunts that he [...]
Sexism And Sensitivity
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke So, a couple of weeks ago, was American Atheists’ Southeast Regional Atheist Meet and during the conference there was a talk that rubbed some of the women at the conference as sexist. Then at a panel discussion, of which there is video footage below which you can view for yourself, a woman complained about the [...]
Posted in Featured, Feminism, Feminism, Women's Issues Tags: Jen McCreight, Lyz Lidell, Privilege, Sexism, Sharon Moss No Comments »PZ Myers Shouldn't Sound Like Sarah Palin
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Alright, before I get into my possibly anal critique of an off-hand remark from the good Dr. Myers of Pharyngula fame, let me preface what follows with the disclaimer that I really love PZ Myers. I think he’s great. There are few bloggers I read who make both my brain happy and butter up my [...]
Sundaily Hilarity: Bible Stories For Children
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Good ol’ 2 Kings 2:23-25 and Genesis 19:4-38 made accessible to the kids: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Bible, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Religulous, Religulous, Videos Tags: Biblical Violence, Elisha, Lot, Sodom and Gamorrah 3 Comments »
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