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First, let me quickly thank you, whoever you are, for reading this. I do not know even a fraction of all of you thousands of people who traffic through Camels With Hammers all week but your presence is my adrenaline which motivates me to think harder and write smarter in order to keep you interested [...]
Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Calling Out And Debunking William Lane Craig’s Smears Against Infidels and Apostates
November 21st, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Is William Lane Craig a philosopher? Some atheists seem to want to dismiss him as strictly a theologian and in no way a philosopher but sometimes he clearly attempts to make strictly philosophical arguments. By strictly philosophical arguments I mean ones whose premises make no necessary appeal to any presumed religious authorities but theoretically could [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Personal, Secularism, Why I Am Not A Christian, Why I Am Not A Christian 
Tags: Apostates, Sex and Apostasy, Why People Leave Their Faith, William Lane Craig 
16 Comments »Before I Deconverted: I Was A Teenage Christian Contrarian
November 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke A few weeks ago I began chronicling the story of my Christianity, my deconversion, and my personal and intellectual development post-deconversion. I began with the reminiscences, Before I Deconverted: My Christian Childhood and Before I Deconverted: Ministers As Powerful Role Models. This post is a series of recollections of my high school religiosity. Below I cover [...]
The Angry Atheist Interviews Me
November 7th, 2011 Daniel Fincke So, yesterday I got interviewed by Reap Paden of The Angry Atheist podcast. We discussed my biography, deconversion, my views on criticizing religious people without slamming them, my mom, the dangers of nihilism and misogyny, why trolls on the internet are so evil, politics, and more! Check it out! Plus they designed this fantastic logo [...]
When I Deconverted: I Was Reading Antichrist 50
October 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke In the posts Before I Deconverted: My Christian Childhood and Before I Deconverted: Ministers As Powerful Role Models, I have only begun to chronicle my deconversion story in detail. But since it was 12 years ago today that it happened, I will jump ahead in the story a bit and share with you the text from Nietzsche’s Antichrist (as [...]
Before I Deconverted: Ministers As Powerful Role Models
October 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke To commemorate my 12th year anniversary of leaving Christianity, I am finally getting around to chronicling my Christian youth and my deconversion from biographical and philosophical perspectives. In my first post I described being a Christian kid and talked a bit about Christian camp. In this post, I explore the powerful influence upon who I [...]
Breaking News: Yankee Fan Takes Joy In Other Team’s Victory
October 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Freethought Blogs’ own Gentlemanly Physiology Professor spent the late summer months giving exquisitely nuanced baseball commentary, favoring his beloved Yankees but also being gracious and good natured as he gently ribbed their rival Red Sox. And he showed a gentleman’s magnanimity towards the Red Sox fans when they ultimately lost the wild card in a historic [...]
Posted in Baseball, Mets, Mets, News Discussion, News Discussion, Personal, Yankees, Yankees 2 Comments »As I Watch Laura Marling Perform
September 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I got very lucky and my one Wednesday night off this semester (and one of my only week nights off period this semester) coincides (tonight) with the genius Laura Marling’s one trip to New York City on her fall tour for her fantastic new album, A Creature I Don’t Know. I am about to head out [...]
On Rejecting Faith in Morality
September 16th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Update: Joel Marks has replied to this post and to my first follow up post. I have reedited this post to incorporate his remarks at the end. Joel Marks is at the Center for Bioethics at Yale University and is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of New Haven. Though writing on ethics throughout [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Ethics, Ethics, Love, Love, Metaethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Personal, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Skepticism, Skepticism 1 Comment »Why I Blog
September 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke To avoid living my entire life like this: via Your Thoughts?
CONGRATULATIONS DAVE AND MEAGAN!!!
September 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is a special, special day for Camels With Hammers as Dave Smith, our webmaster, has just announced to Facebook (and thereby given me permission to announce to the rest of the world) that he is engaged to his beautiful, brilliant, and utterly hilarious new fiancé Meagan. Dave is an old friend. We lived across [...]
On The Value Of Taking Stands
March 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I’m doing a whole lot of spring cleaning this weekend. Part of it entails digging through and sorting out old papers. I just found a really great e-mail exchange from June of 2000 which encapsulates my thoughts during a really intellectually tumultuous time in my life (I had only renounced Christianity at the end of [...]
Meet Jesy Littlejohn, Founder of "Rainbow Bridge", Grove City College’s Unrecognized LGBTQ Awareness Group
March 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Grove City College, my alma mater from which I graduated with a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Religion in 2000, is an Evangelical Christian college which ranks among America’s most religiously and politically conservative colleges. Princeton Review ranks Grove City among the “Best Northeastern Colleges” and among the 373 best colleges in the [...]
My Great Niece
March 3rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Hey everybody, this is Lexie! That was her first birthday. She’s now 26 months old. Your Awwws?
On Zealously, Tentatively, and Perspectivally Holding Viewpoints
March 2nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke In a recent post, I wrote the following: Changing people’s minds to make them stop holding positions dogmatically and instead hold them tentatively is still a change of mind one may zealously pursue. On Facebook, Greg writes in reply: I want to address the peculiarity of this statement. One may passionately pursue such a change [...]
Posted in Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Featured, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Personal, Philosophy, Skepticism, Skepticism Tags: Nietzsche's Perspectivism, Nietzsche's Perspectivist Theory of Truth, Perspectival Epistemology, Perspectivalism 5 Comments »The Flexibility of the Word "Evangelical"
March 1st, 2011 Daniel Fincke In a previous post, I conceded that it was acceptable to call at least some activist atheists like me “evangelical atheists” on some possible senses of the word “evangelical”. Greg wanted to say that this could not be so because all that atheists do (or should) advocate is tentative, skeptical empiricism, and that we do not (or should [...]
I Am Interviewed About My Personal (Atheistic) Religiosity/Spirituality
February 19th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Through Facebook, I was recently contacted by an old friend from high school (who was actually the first girl to go on a date with me). She is working on her Master’s in nursing and has an assignment which involves interviewing people about their views on religion and spirituality, for the purpose of thinking about approaches [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Love, Love, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Music, Music, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Personal, Philosophy, Religion, Religion, Secularism Tags: Eternal Recurrence, Eternal Recurrence of the Same, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Stoicism No Comments »33
January 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke 33 years ago right about now I was born. If the next 33 years are as rich as the first 33, if I continue to grow year by year in the next 33 years as much as I have in the first 33 years, I will live as good a life as any human being [...]
A Video Of Me Rambling About Nietzsche
January 17th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is from 2007 and I just found that it pops right up when one Googles me. It’s hard for me to watch because it involves watching me. But I figured it might be of interest to others. Forgive the extemporaneousness of it all and enjoy some of the more hilarious hand gestures. (My favorite [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Historical Philosophy, Historical Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Personal, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy Tags: Daniel Fincke, John Hazlet, Normativity, Truth, Values 9 Comments »We’ll Take A Cup Of Kindness Yet, For Days Of Auld Lang Syne
December 31st, 2010 Daniel Fincke 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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
Allan Hazlett Leaves Fordham For Edinburgh
August 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Allan Hazlett arrived at Fordham long after I was done with coursework and, curiously, our primary interactions were in interviewing each other. When he visited the campus as a prospective member of the faculty I participated in a lunch designed for him to meet the graduate students so that he could learn about the program [...]
Back In Blog
August 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Thanks everyone for your patience the last nearly four weeks as I have been rarely posting new ideas pieces. I’ve been preoccupied with a short vacation, moving, and then some settling in and taking a few days to do nothing for the first time since finishing the dissertation in the spring. But it’s time to [...]
Happy Birthday Mom!!!
July 16th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I have the best mom in the world. Sorry everybody else. From the time I was little until today, I have never for a millisecond had to doubt or worry about my mother’s love for me. I am sure that without my ever having to think about it or consciously reference it, her love forms [...]
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