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Archive for October, 2010
Anderson Cooper Gets Resignation From Anti-Gay Ranter
October 29th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke The Christian writer of truly disgusting attacks on bullied gays, AIDS-afflicted gays, and pretty much all gays was powerfully confronted by Anderson Cooper last night: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Religion, Religion 
Tags: Anderson Cooper, Arkansas, Clint McCance 
4 Comments »Projecting US Pathologies Onto Muslims
October 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Glenn Greenwald offers a mirror for those of us who worry about the elements of theocratic expansionism which are enough a part of the Koran and early Islamic history to be considered potentially dangerous forms of the religion itself on its own terms (and not just of its appropriation by political agents): I’m always amazed [...]
Agnostics Or Apistics?
October 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In the past, I have defended the idea that rather than classifying people simply as atheists, agnostics, and theists that we should separate the questions of the contents of beliefs (whether they are atheistic or theistic) from whether one’s atheism or theism is held as a matter of knowledge or not. If one’s theism is [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Disambiguating Faith, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Faith, Faith, Featured, God, God, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion Tags: Agnostic Atheism, Agnostic Theism, Agnosticism, Apistic Agnostic Atheism, Gnostic Atheism, Gnostic Theism, Pistic Agnostic Atheism 32 Comments »Shuffling Space And Time Like A Deck of Cards
October 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Sean Wilentz on how Bob Dylan overcomes the illusions of time: The question of the ballads, though, and why Dylan was drawn to them so early on, is interesting. In Bob Dylan in America I recount a scene where he’s at the White Horse Tavern with Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, and they’re singing [...]
Sundaily Hilarity: Jesus Loves You
October 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Jesus, Jesus, Parody, Parody, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire 12 Comments »David Hyde Pierce On His Marriage And Prop 8
October 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke This is a little old and comes from before the landmark Prop 8 ruling of this summer, but it is still poignant: Your Thoughts?
Theology’s Edge
October 16th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A classic and precise Jesus and Mo from December 2008, which I just discovered (thanks Jacob!): Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Good Enough For Now
October 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Broke out the ol’ Weird Al this afternoon and was delighted to see it has aged well: My favorite country song.
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Style Parody 3 Comments »Dan Savage On Gay Adoption
October 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A great case is made in less than 5 minutes: Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Crappy Canadian Thanksgiving
October 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Here’s wishing a belated happy Canadian thanksgiving to all our friends up north from a huge fan of all things Canadian! Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: The Senate Candidate
October 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Via The Daily Dish, which also provides some Hitchens. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Political Satire, Political Satire, Satire, Satire Tags: Whitest Kids U'Know No Comments »Atheist Murdered Over Argument About Religion
October 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Mojoey relays the disturbing story: 16-year-old James Doyle was shot in the chest by 14-year-old Daniel Nadler on June 27, 2010. Doyle was an Atheist, Nadler a Christian. They were arguing about religion at the time of the murder. Apparently, Christian + hormonal teen + argument about religion + shotgun = murder, but does not [...]
The Tea Party And Social Conservatives
October 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Some data which demonstrates what should be obvious: Indeed, according to a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, nearly half (47 percent) of Tea Party members consider themselves part of the Christian conservative movement, with that number jumping to 57 percent when confined to the 81 percent of Tea Partiers who identify as [...]
On Good And Evil For Non-Existent People
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Kyle, from the video blog Serptopia writes the following to me in reply to my posts from the summer, “On The Intrinsic Connection Between Being and Goodness”: Oh my, you seem quite the Aristotelean. From a certain angle, yes, I am very Aristotelean. But in the broader picture, I see myself as situating all of [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Teleology, Teleology Tags: Death, Euthanasia, Flourishing, Future People, Intrinsic Evils, Intrinsic Goods, Legacy, Power, Value 3 Comments »Federal Judge Orders Halt To “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke CNN reports: A federal judge ordered Tuesday that the U.S. military stop enforcing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Judge Virginia Phillips ordered the military “immediately to suspend and discontinue any investigation, or discharge, separation, or other proceeding, that may have been commenced” under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Thank Republicans. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, News, Politics No Comments »Sam Harris vs. Robert Wright
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values meets the author of The Evolution of God:
In Defense Of Offering The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers has put online the text of an impassioned speech he recently gave against accommodationism. It’s a must-read so read it in full and pass it on to your friends. Here’s the gist: Shouldn’t we move beyond just reacting to every assault by Idiot America on science education, and honestly look at the root [...]
Daily Hilarity: Protect Yourself With Censorship
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Political Satire, Political Satire, Satire, Satire Tags: Censorship, Freedom of Speech No Comments »Could An Omnipotent God Know It Is Omnipotent?
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Juan Sanchez, inspired by a little Robert Nozick, explores some problems for the concept of an omnipotent, omniscient God: Suppose you’re God: How can you be sure you’re omnipotent? Perhaps you can accomplish anything you can imagine in your own corner of reality—a lucid dreamer can say that much—but there’s some greater reality you’re not even [...]
My Political Inclinations In Graph Form
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke My “Political Compass” scores: Economic Left/Right: -5.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.79 Am I the only one who when I took this test thought all the answers just obvious and couldn’t imagine why anyone would disagree with his own? I’m essentially in the same spot on the chart as Gandhi: You? Your Scores? Your Thoughts?
Jesus’s Side Of The Crucifixion Story
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Dude got a raw deal. (NSFW) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus, Religious Satire, Religious Satire No Comments »Louis C.K. Shreds Homophobia
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Completely NSFW and completely brilliant. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Videos Tags: Louis CK, Standup Comedy 1 Comment »Unreal Discrimination?
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Reggie objects to National Coming Out Day: As a black American I’m old enough to remember what real discrimination was like(I once got bit by a police dog on a peaceful march), as we tried to be judged by our actions. How is the brutality that gays suffered at the hands of policemen in the [...]
Gay Marriage Legal In Connecticut
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A law providing for civil unions as an alternative to gay marriage was ruled by the Connecticut State Supreme Court to violate equal protection principles: “Like these once prevalent views, our conventional understanding of marriage must yield to a more contemporary appreciation of the rights entitled to constitutional protection,” Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote for [...]
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