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I have been inspired to introduce a new series on Camels With Hammers which I am entitling “Poe or No Poe?” and which will run however frequently or infrequently as proves necessary. In “Poe or No Poe?” posts, I will offer you lunacy riddled statements from apparent fundamentalists and other extremists around the internet and [...]
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Poe or No Poe? "Heaven Sex"
February 21st, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Hilarious, Poe Or No Poe?, Religulous, Religulous, Sex, Unintentional Comedy, Unintentional Comedy 
Tags: Heaven 
1 Comment »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 15 Comments »'Nuff Said Award Winner: Jeff Dale
February 9th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Jeff Dale’s ‘Nuff Said Award is for his reply to the following passage from Drew Dyck in which Dyck accuses young defectors from Christianity of being motivated to leave their faith because of their “sinful” sexual behavior: So 20- and 30-somethings are leaving—but why? When I ask church people, I receive some variation of this [...]
Posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, Christianity, Christianity, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Religion, Religion, Sex 1 Comment »Sex And Apostasy
February 9th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Drew Dyck has written a book called Generation Ex-Christian: Why Young Adults Are Leaving the Faith. . .and How to Bring Them Back. I want to focus on just a few passages from his interesting five page article from last fall in last November’s Christianity Today. Unlike many Christians who, despite living in a culture [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Autonomy, Autonomy, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Prejudice, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Secularism, Sex, Social Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology, Sociology, Why I Am Not A Christian, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Sex and Faith, Sex and Religion, Sexual Ethics, Sexual Experimentation, Sexual Hypocrisy, Sexual Values, Young Adult Sexuality 8 Comments »Gay Sex And Reality
July 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Recently a University of Illinois adjunct professor in a course on Catholicism got into unfairly lost his job over expressing his philosophical opposition to homosexuality in an e-mail to his student in what seems to me like a pretty clear violation of academic freedom. As to the substance of his arguments though, PZ Myers does [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Ethics, Ethics, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, PZ Myers, PZ Myers, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Sex, Teleology, Teleology Tags: Natural Law Theory, University of Illinois, William Howell No Comments »God’s “Orbit Plans” For Bristol Palin
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Tinfoiler interprets current events for her son: Blessed Bristol Palin is back in the news discussing her wonderful love child. When my son Hunter asked me why it was okay for Bristol Palin to have a baby before she was married, I told him that God has special rules for special people. God knew that Bristol [...]
Contortions Of Catholic Philosophy: Eve Tushnet Argues Gay Sex Is Not OK But Sex Changes Are
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Tushnet’s moral choice for herself and for other gays is celibacy or gender reassignment. Of course for some people, specifically some of the transgendered, a sex change is entirely appropriate and preferable to gay sex because from a gender(rather than a sex) perspective, those who are pre-op transgendered and are attracted to members of their [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Ethics, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Vices, LGBTQAA, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Sex, Teleology, Teleology 3 Comments »“Ick Factor” Vs. “Projective Disgust”, Huckabee Vs. Nussbaum On The Source Of Aversion To Homosexuality
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In the New Yorker, Mike Huckabee recently used the phrase “ick factor” in describing responses to homosexuality and when attacked for it, claimed he was taking it from the LGBT movement and from the work of philosopher Martha Nussbaum. Huckabee’s self-defense comes from his website: The reaction over a reported quote from my most recent [...]
Judge This: No Gay Kissing On Modern Family?
June 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I am a bit late on this story but wanted to offer a contrary viewpoint to the dominant one of the outraged blogosphere. Though I have never seen the show, I was interested in the controversy over the show Modern Family which apparently features a gay couple among its lead characters. The controversy centers not [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Ethics, Featured, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Love, Moral Psychology, Morality, News Discussion, Pop Culture, Prejudice, Psychology, Same Sex Marriage, Sex, TV Tags: ABC, Modern Family, Waymon Hudson No Comments »The Asian Sex Trade
June 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke “The sex trade now accounts for 14% of Thailand’s economy.” Your Thoughts?
Posted in News, Sex, Videos, Women's Issues, World Affairs Tags: Cambodia, Sex Trade, Thailand No Comments »American Academy Of Pediatrics Reverses Support For Female Circumcision “Compromise”
June 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke The American Academy of Pediatrics had proposed permitting American doctors to ritually “nick” the clitorises of girls whose parents want to maintain their customs in America. The thinking was that this compromise would prevent such parents from going underground to have a fuller mutilation of the clitoris carried out instead. Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that [...]
Posted in Atheist Videos, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Feminism, Islam, Law, Law & Politics, News, News Discussion, Politics, Religious Extremism, Sex, Videos, Women's Issues Tags: "Nicking" The Clitoris, American Academy of Pediatrics, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Congressman Joseph Crowley, Female Circumcision, Female Genital Mutilation, Infidel, Misogyny, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, Religion and Sex, Religious Atrocities, Religious Hatred Of The Body, The American Academy of Pediatrics, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam No Comments »Is Belief In Love Like Belief In God?
May 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Roger Friedland finds an interesting correlation between the two kinds of belief and examines its possible causes and implications: We found that belief in God has no impact on young people’s sex lives. College virgins are no more likely to believe in God than non-virgins. Even those who took a virginity pledge are not sexually [...]
Posted in God, Psychology, Sex, Social Psychology, Sociology Tags: Casual Sex, College Sex, Friends With Benefits, Love, Religion and Sex, Roger Friedland, Sex and Love, Teenage Sex 1 Comment »Marrying For Sex
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers has an interesting and accurate seeming account of the effects of conservative American Christianity’s obsessive and draconian opposition to all premarital sex and its implications for contributing to the hysteria about children learning about same sex couples: I teach at a large university in a conservative part of the country, [...]
Posted in Christianity, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Psychology, Religion, Sex, Sociology Tags: Evangelicalism, Marriage 12 Comments »Nobody Cares About The Losers
September 27th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Robin Hanson notes that as sensitized as we are to various marginalized groups there are other categories of people who suffer from huge inequalities but for whom there are no sympathies to be found. Hanson writes: There is no social pressure whatsoever against maligning these groups. Especially striking are inequalities in attractiveness as a friend, [...]
Are Sex and Morality Merely “Evolutionary Tricks”?
August 1st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Francis Collins trots out a familiar old argument against atheism. The argument is that if there is no God then our morality is an illusion. Collins’s presentation of this argument features an unusual and suspicious spin. Collins knows that arguments can be made from evolutionary psychology that broadly moral thinking seems to have evolved in [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Francis Collins, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Psychology, Religion, Sex, Social Psychology, Sociobiology Tags: Altruism, Charles Manson, Social Virtues, Sociopaths 3 Comments »How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
July 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke 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 as a recommendation for human psychology it is hopelessly unrealistic. In this part of the series, I sketch out a theory [...]
Posted in Ethics, Love, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Sex, Virtues Tags: Admiration, Affection, Attachment, Commitment, Complete Love, Components of Love, Conditional Love, Desirability, Erosiac Desire, Erotic Desire, Essence of Love, Family, Family Resemblances, Ideal Love, Intimacy, Mutuality, Parental Love, Platonic Desire, Romantic Desire, Sexual Love, Unconditional Love, Value Perception, Virtue Theory, Volition, Wittgenstein 2 Comments »A Materialist View Of Transcendence
July 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Greta Christina specifically addresses the meaning of sex from within a materialist’s mindset but her points can extend to more aspects of our experience as well, I think. The transcendent aspect of sex and of numerous other aspects of our experience can be derived from our meditative realization that we are participating in processes that [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Ethics, Secularism, Sex Tags: Greta Christina, Materialism, Meaning, Spirituality, Transcendence No Comments »Kantian Reasons To Lie To The Murderer At The Door?
July 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Michael Cholbi thinks he has some: First, the lie is not meant to advance the happiness either of the liar or of the potential murder victim, but to thwart the abuse of the victim’s autonomy that her murder would represent. Hence, if lying to the murderer is manipulation at all, it is manipulation in the [...]
Posted in Autonomy, Duty, Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Rape, Sex Tags: Autonomy, Deontology, Kant, Kant's Symmetry Thesis, Liberalism, Lying, Masturbation, Michael Cholbi, Moral Dilemmas, PEA Soup No Comments »“The Myth of Sexual Spontaneity”
July 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Greta Christina attacks what she calls “the myth of sexual spontaneity,” defined as the idea that “for sex to be good and meaningful, the desire has to strike both partners out of the blue and be acted on immediately” on the grounds that arises from and implictly reinforces negative views of sex: Our culture tends [...]
Feminism and Vampires
July 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Feministing breaks down Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Twilight, and True Blood for their implicit (and explicit) views on sex. While comparing and contrasting True Blood and Twilight, Latoya Peterson drops this tidbit, which is the first thing to make me curious to peek at Twilight (though I’m 99% sure I still won’t): In both series, [...]
Posted in Cutural Criticism, Feminism, Pop Culture, Sex, TV Tags: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Feministing, foreplay, HBO, Novels, S&M, True Blood, Twilight No Comments »Worst Statistic of the Day
July 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Go to Psychology Today for solutions for dealing with this bit of bad news: Only 25 percent of women are consistently orgasmic during vaginal intercourse.
Posted in Psychology, Sex Tags: Female Orgasm, Health, Psychology Today, Vaginal Intercourse No Comments »Sex: The Horror and The Horrible
May 17th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Teeth Sometimes people disagree about what makes for a horror film. As far as I’m concerned, the definitive feature of the genre is that it deals with frightening transgressions of nature and of morality. Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Teeth is horror that situates itself purely in terms of this defining characteristic. The horror is not in the [...]
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