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There is a lot of commotion in the atheist blogosphere about how and/or whether atheists should participate in so-called “interfaith” organizations in which (if I understand correctly) members of different religions cooperate on shared service projects, aim at shared goals together, and (possibly?) dialogue about where they might find philosophical, ethical, and political common ground [...]
Archive for April, 2011
On Atheists And "Interfaith" Participation
April 30th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Disambiguating Faith, Disambiguating Faith, Faith, Faith, Featured, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism 
Tags: Interfaith 
5 Comments »Trumped
April 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Baratunde tells it straight about the Donald. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Politics, Politics, Racism Tags: Barack Obama's Birth Certificate, Donald Trump No Comments »Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing
April 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke My favorite new song of 2011 has a video (and it co-stars one of my three favorite contemporary Scandinavian actors, Stellan Skarsgård). It’s really well done: The whole terrific album on which this song appears can be found here. Your Thoughts?
Synthese Intelligent Design Controversy
April 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke by Eric Steinhart The philosophy journal Synthese has become embroiled in a controversy regarding a special issue entitled “Evolution and its Rivals”. The chief editors of the journal have behaved in ways which have struck many philosophers as inappropriate. You can learn more about the controversy at the Leiter Report. If you’re an academic, you [...]
How They Used To Make Books
April 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Oh what we take for granted. Your Thoughts?
Turkish-German Actress Poses In Playboy As "Act of Liberation"
April 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sila Sahin’s appearance in the German version of Playboy has symbolic connotations: the 25-year-old Sahin, who plays Ayala in the RTL German soap opera Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten (Good Times, Bad Times), managed to link her public exposure to the debate over a central sociopolitical issue: that young Muslim — in this case, Turkish — women [...]
Posted in Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Islam, Islam, News, Religion, Religion, World Affairs, World Affairs 6 Comments »Robert Price on the Mythic Precedents of the Jesus Story
April 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus, Religion, Religion, Skepticism, Skepticism 3 Comments »Trans Woman Assaulted At Baltimore McDonald's
April 23rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Joe.My.God explains: Baltimore police have made two arrests in the brutal attack on a transgender woman at a McDonald’s, where staffers filmed the assault with their cell phones, then urged the assailants to flee before police arrived. The only person that appears to come to the victim’s aid is an elderly female customer, although the restaurant’s [...]
Lent
April 23rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Jesus and Mo (of course). Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire No Comments »Jesus In, Zombie Out. Never A Miscommunication.
April 23rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Idea by Rob Lewis, visual realization by United Atheist Front.
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Religion, Religion, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Never a miscommunication, Tides Go In Tides Go Out, Zombie Jesus, Zombies No Comments »Why Can't God Heal Amputees?
April 22nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Because apparently he doesn’t know enough science. Thankfully UCLA, on the other hand, does: Your Thoughts?
God (i.e., Google) Tells Us The Future
April 22nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Google, the most divine being on Earth, has these prophecies about the future for us (via its prophet, xkcd): Your Thoughts?
David Cross on Perceptions of Heaven
April 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke Hilarious (angry) stand up. He essentially starts at 0:50: via Godless Girl. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Religion, Religion, Religulous, Religulous Tags: Angels, David Cross, Heaven No Comments »Kanye West "Monster" Muppet Remix
April 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke I’ve been listening to Kanye West’s “Monster” pretty obsessively for the last couple months, but just watched the song’s listless official video for the first time and found it really disappointing. Then I discovered this perfect visualization of the song: The only thing downside of the video is they do not include Nicki Minaj’s full, [...]
Posted in Music, Music Tags: Animal, Bon Iver, Cookie Monster, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kermit the Frog, Monster, Muppets, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, The Count No Comments »Jason Alexander Teaching Larry David How To Play George Constanza
April 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke I’m a big Seinfeld fan but I’ve only seen a little bit of Curb Your Enthusiasm and have been completely underwhelmed by it. But I just stumbled across this clip of Jason Alexander schooling Larry David on how to play George Costanza (the character based on Larry David and played by Jason Alexander on Seinfeld) [...]
Lykke Li Unplugged
April 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke An entire, terrific MTV Unplugged concert of Lykke Li can be seen here. I am getting the impression she’s on the cusp of mainstream stardom (only 2 years too late). Your Thoughts?
For the Love of Language!
April 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke A thought provoking polemic from the great Stephen Fry: Your Thoughts?
The Church of Google: Google is God
April 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke by Eric Steinhart Many thanks to Zike for pointing me to The Church of Google. The Church of Google website gives nine lovely arguments for the divinity of Google. The Church of Google website also gives excellent replies to objections against the divinity of Google. Brilliant! Guest Contributor Eric Steinhart is a professor of philosophy [...]
How Science Affects Your Ability To See Beauty
April 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke xkcd (of course): Your Thoughts?
"Weird Al" Does Lady Gaga
April 20th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Mildly scathing: I’m disappointed to learn Lady Gaga has no sense of humor (or a thin skin). And, really, shouldn’t have Al just asked Madonna for the rights to the song anyway? Many thanks to Ben. Your Thoughts? ______________________________________________________________________________________ UPDATE: Lady Gaga has a sense of humor after all (or has decided to come off [...]
The Virtues Of Philosophizing Online
April 20th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Claire Creffield has a rich meditation on the subject worth reading in full. Think about the forums for shared introspection that we have today. Online forums. At their best (and I am talking here only about our best experiences of online discourse: we know too well the mediocrity or worse that predominates), online forums have [...]
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