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One of our last, and by far the most touching, videos we have of Christopher Hitchens comes from the Texas Freethought Convention this past October. Watching him with the charmingly and precociously smart little girl in the video, he is downright grandfatherly: Mason was interviewed afterward: Why did you decide it was important to ask [...]
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Christopher Hitchens and Freethinking Parenting At Its Best
December 18th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Former Daily Show Head Writer And Executive Producer
July 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Hemant Mehta interviewed David Javerbaum, author of What to Expect When You’re Expected: A Fetus’s Guide to the First Three Trimesters, and departing head writer and executive producer of the The Daily Show. His thoughts on Jon Stewart being named in polls as “America’s Most Trusted Newscaster”: I think he and I would both agree that [...]
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Tags: David Javerbaum, Hemant Mehta, Media, Media Criticism, The Daily Show 
No Comments »If I Could Read Only One Atheist Blogger, It Would Be…
July 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke …Richard Wade of Friendly Atheist, whose ”Ask Richard” column turns one fantastic year old today. It is a column by a retired therapist who gives atheists advice about atheistic parenting, the effects of one’s religious past on one’s present life and the way to go forward constructively in the future as an atheist, and, probably most [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Friendly Atheist, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Psychology, Psychology, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Social Psychology, Social Psychology Tags: Ask Richard, Atheist Family Relationships, Richard Wade 7 Comments »Greenwood High School Valedictorian Eric Workman Stands Up For Separation Of Church And State
May 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Thanks to Hemant Mehta of the Friendly Atheist, here is a portion of the inspiring speech from the valedictorian of Greenwood High School, where the school administration let the students vote that they could have a graduation prayer, only to have this plan challenged by the class valedictorian, with whom the courts sided: You may not [...]
Posted in Christianity, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Religion, Separation of Church and State Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Commencement Speeches, Eric Workman, Establishment Clause, Federal District Judge Sarah Evans Barker, First Amendment, Greenwood Community School Corporation, Greenwood High School, James Kaylor, School Prayer, Thomas Jefferson No Comments »The Perils Of Unrequited Love
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Richard Wade’s new column is typically sage, this time as he soberly and accurately advises someone who is unrequitedly in love with a friend: When a friend learns that their friend loves them romantically, but they don’t have that kind of love to return, they often feel a tension because of an odd quirk in [...]
Atheism, Albuquerque, And “Weird Al” Yankovic
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Recently Hemant Mehta did an excellent job of mobilizing criticism of Albuquerque city councilman Don Harris for creating campaign literature that attacked his opponent for, among other things, being an atheist and contributing to a “Charles Darwin” scholarship. Harris, to his credit apologized for trying to exploit his opponents views on religion in the campaign, [...]
Posted in Atheism, Civil Liberties, Comedy, Cultural Secularism, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Hilarious, Music, Music Videos, News, News Discussion, Parody, Political Secularism, Religious Rights, Satire, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Videos Tags: "That's Your Horoscope For Today", "Weird Al" Yankovic, Albuquerque, Albuquerque City Council Race, Don Harris 3 Comments »My Thoughts On Blasphemy Day
September 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So today is “Blasphemy Day.” Here’s what it’s about: Blasphemy Day International is an international campaign seeking to establish September 30th as a national day to promote free speech and stand up in a show of solidarity for the freedom to mock and insult religion without fear of murder, violence, and reprisal. It is the [...]
Tesco: A Company With Subtle Theological Spokespeople
September 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Daniel Jones, 23 year old founder of a 500,000 member Jedi church, felt emotionally humiliated after employees at a Tesco forced him to remove his Jedi hood and mocked his beliefs after he gave them a business card which proved his religion. Mr Jones, from Holyhead, said his religion dictated that he should wear the [...]
Posted in Friendly Atheist, News, News Discussion, Religulous Tags: Cults, Daniel Jones, Jedi, Jedi Church, Religious Rights, Texaco No Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Corruption Of Children’s Intellectual Judgment
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Earlier today, I challenged Rod Dreher’s recent post wherein he lamented the difficulties we have in overcoming our minds’ propensities for rationalizations. In that same post he had argued from the experience of his own loss of Catholic faith that the intellect was an insufficient ground for religious beliefs and that the will needed to [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Daniel Dennett, Disambiguating Faith, Faith, Featured, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Religion, Secularism, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Affective Value Perception, Atheist Alliance, Crunchy Con, Dale McGowan, Emotional Reasoning, Laci Green, Parenting, Parenting Beyond Belief, Rationalization, Reason and Emotions, Rod Dreher, The Heart, Value Perception 12 Comments »Liveblogging The Creation Museum Tour Twitter Feed Highlights
August 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Camels With Hammers pares down the first 5 hours of the twitter feed of visitors to the Creation Museum and offers you the highlights. Start reading from the bottom of the thread for chronological flow and then join the real time discussion at #cregozerg. Once you’ve read this thread be sure to check out my [...]
Posted in Atheism, Creationism, Friendly Atheist, Fundamentalism, Hemant Mehta, Intelligent Design, PZ Myers, Religion and Science Tags: Bacon, BlagHag, Creation Museum, Ken Ham 2 Comments »Psychotic Reasoning, The Will To Believe, And Religious Interpretations Of The Mentally Ill
July 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Yesterday morning, The Friendly Atheist’s Hemant Mehta analyzed stories of mothers who murdered their babies under religiously interpreted delusions with a critical eye towards the religions which put certain fantasies in their heads. In reply to criticisms of his making this connection that came from skeptigirl (in this terrific post on psychosis you should read), [...]
Posted in Atheism, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, News Discussion, Psychology, Religion and Science, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: A.J. Burger, Andrea Yates, Ascetics, Belief Without Sufficient Evidence, Demon Possession, Dena Schlosser, Epilepsy, Ethics of Belief, Evidentialism, Mental Illness, Mystics, Otty Sanchez, Prophecy, Psychopathy, Religious Justification, Saints, skeptigirl, Superstition, Visions, Voltaire, William James, WK Clifford 1 Comment »Absurdities And Atrocities
July 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This story is beyond horrific: The scene was so gruesome investigators could barely speak: A 3 1/2-week-old boy lay dismembered in the bedroom of a single-story house, three of his tiny toes chewed off, his face torn away, his head severed and his brains ripped out. Officers called to the home early Sunday found the [...]
Posted in Atheism, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, News, News Discussion, Psychology, Religion Tags: Andrea Yates, Dena Schlosser, Otty Sanchez, Psychopathy, Voltaire No Comments »South African Judge Candidate On His Atheism
July 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Really interesting statement in response to ridiculous questions put to him: An Eastern Cape candidate judge caused a stir before the Judicial Service Commission when he told members he left priesthood for the law because he concluded that there is no God. Senior Counsel Torquil Paterson told the JSC: “I left the church for a [...]
Posted in Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Uncategorized Tags: Jeff Radebe, Marxism, Sonia Sotomayor, Torquil Paterson No Comments »
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