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Mr. Deity’s captives beloved subjects are unsatisfied for a number of reasons: I examined arguments that hell is God’s favor to those who just don’t want to be with him in my post Hell as the Absence of God (a fictional dialogue between my characters Jaime and Robin). Although I think there are ways to [...]
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Occupy Heaven
February 20th, 2012 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Religulous, Religulous, Satire, Satire 
Tags: Downsides of Immortality, Free Will, Free Will and Evil, Hell as a Choice, Hell Is Unfair, Mr. Deity, Occupy Movement Parody, Personal Relationship with God, Scientology, The 1%, The 99% 
2 Comments »Theological Syncretism of the Near Future
February 20th, 2012 Daniel Fincke So children, after he destroyed almost all of humanity with a giant flood, God gave us the rainbow as a symbol that he would never destroy humanity again and that instead things were going to be ‘FAAABUUULOUUUUSS!!!’ Your Thoughts?
Really, Congress? Really?
February 20th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Saturday Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers asked for a little reality from the conservatives and Congresspeople who are attacking contraception and women’s reproductive rights more broadly: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, News Discussion, News Discussion, Political Satire, Political Satire, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Satire, Satire Tags: "We're All Catholic Now", Amy Poehler, Congress, Contraception, Darrell Issa, Mike Huckabee, Really?, Seth Meyers, Transvaginal Airlines, Virginia Life Begins At Conception 3 Comments »Washington
February 20th, 2012 Daniel Fincke It’s President’s Day, so it’s time to watch the traditional celebratory video: For all you historical revisionist, theocratic Christian Dominionist Tea Partiers out there, here’s “I Heard George Washington Weeping”. Your Thoughts?
The Vagina Ideologues
February 14th, 2012 Daniel Fincke It was nice to see Jon Stewart finally have a chance to weigh in on last week’s absurd push from the Catholic Church to win the exemption from the law requiring employers to provide health insurance that covers contraception: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Comedy, Comedy, Politics, Politics, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Satire, Satire, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats Tags: Catholic Church Demands Contraception Exemption, Catholic Privilege, Catholics and Obama, Contraception, Obama's Affordable Care Act, The Daily Show 8 Comments »Patton Oswalt Sums Up The Underwhelming Imagination of the Star Wars Prequels
February 7th, 2012 Daniel Fincke From his comedy album Werewolves and Lollipops, Patton Oswalt sums up many people’s disappointments with the premise of the Star Wars prequels: It’s weird that objectively I fully understand and usually agree with many of the criticisms of the prequels and yet still personally love them. Are they flawed? Absolutely. They could have been 15 [...]
Patton Oswalt on Arguments Against Gay Marriage
February 4th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Pretty hilarious: From Patton Oswalt’s Finest Hour. In the same show he is as funny as can be on romantic comedies and on “gay friend” tropes in movies. The DVD is coming soon. (Thanks to Leanna for the video.) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, LGBTQAA, Religulous, Religulous 4 Comments »Marauding Gay Hordes Drag Thousands Of Helpless Citizens From Marriages
January 14th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Last year President Obama announced his administration would not defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. The consequences were disastrous: WASHINGTON—Reports continue to pour in from around the nation today of helpless Americans being forcibly taken from their marital unions after President Obama dropped the Defense of Marriage Act earlier this week, leaving the [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Parody, Parody, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Satire, Satire 14 Comments »You Know I Usually Hate Wes Anderson Movies…
January 12th, 2012 Daniel Fincke …and this trailer is so Wes Andersony (Slate nicely breaks down how) that at first it struck me like he was descending into self-parody. But by the end I felt like I had just watched a charming two minute movie. Watching the actual full length film might spoil the charm. I’ll have to think over [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Film, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Parody Tags: Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, Wes Anderson's Spider-Man 3 Comments »Shit Nobody Says
January 11th, 2012 Daniel Fincke As my 24 hour blogathon ends its seventh hour, I give you a funny video circling the intertubes today. More blog posts coming every 45 minutes. Feel free to put your suggestions for topics in the comments or in an e-mail to me. Your Thoughts?
I’m a Muppet of a Man, I’m a Very Manly Muppet
January 11th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Life’s like a movie, make your ending, keep believing, keep pretending… As Tyler Cowen was talking about in the last post, humans are inexorably drawn to stories. I even like to think of every sentence as a story. It stars a subject which verbs something. And in my childhood there were two stories that loomed [...]
How To Make Your Own Doritos
January 6th, 2012 Daniel Fincke As someone whose body must be made of at least 20% Dorito since I eat so many of them, the revelation of the secret ingredient made perfect sense to me. It had to be something that special to make something that tastes that good: Just so no one gets confused, I’ve placed a disclaimer for [...]
“All American Muslims” Meet All American Islamophobia
December 18th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Daily Show had fantastic coverage this week of The Florida Family Association’s opposition to TLC’s show All American Muslim: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire Tags: Aasif Mandvi, All American Muslim, Islamophobia, Muslims, Ophelia Benson, The Daily Show 1 Comment »Christian Children: The True Victims of the War on Christmas
December 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is so well done: War On Christmas PSA Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Parody, Parody, Political Satire, Political Satire, Religulous, Religulous, Satire, Satire Tags: "War on Christmas" PSA, Rick Perry 6 Comments »If You Love South Park, Learn About the Originals–The Ancient Cynics
December 2nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke What kinds of philosophers choose the name for their school of philosophy from the word for dogs? The cynics, who were basically social-convention flouting performance artists and proto-south park scatalogical/philosophical satirists of their time. Learn plenty about them in a very accessible 22 minutes, filled with charming anecdotes. An ancient philosophy specialist and friend of mine recommended [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Comedy, Comedy, Ethics, Ethics, Hilarious, Historical Ethics, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Historical Philosophy, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Plato, Plato, Virtues, Virtues Tags: Antisthenes, Demetrius, Diogenes Laertius, Diogenes of Synope, Pleasure, Socrates 3 Comments »Patton Oswalt Savaging Awful Christmas Song
November 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A holiday chestnut: Your Thoughts?
South Park Savages Dogmatic Agnostics
November 18th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Someone finally satirizes the agnostics for once, starting at 0:50 in the first video below and continuing through the others. (My own quibbles with agnostics are spelled out more philosophically and less humorously primarily in the posts 7 Reasons Why I Label Myself An Atheist Rather Than An Agnostic, Beyond Agnosticism: More Details About How [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire Tags: Agnosticism, Criticisms of Agnosticism, South Park on Agnosticism 2 Comments »Arabs As “The New Blacks”
November 18th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Arab comedian Dean Obeidallah: The Watch List Watch it now! Arabs are the New Blacks www.comedycentral.com Comedy Central Funny Videos Funny TV Shows Your Thoughts?
The Greatest Online Video Profile Ever
November 17th, 2011 Daniel Fincke So much awesome. This guy must be flooded with replies: Your Future Husband from Bradley Jackson on Vimeo. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire Tags: Bradley Jackson, Dating Parody, Luke Korem, Michael Faerber 4 Comments »Tina Fey’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech
November 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A much hilarious speech in response to a much deserved honor: I’ve had such a crush on her for such a while. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious Tags: Kennedy Center, Lorne Michaels, Mark Twain Prize, Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey 4 Comments »High Fructose Corn Syrup Commercials
November 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The commercial being parodied is here. Your Thoughts?
L. Dicaprio
November 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Oscar season has begun: L. DiCaprio (J. Edgar Parody) – watch more funny videos Your Thoughts?
Hurrah For The Justice System
November 8th, 2011 Daniel Fincke For a slightly more up to date account of the neurobiological bases of antisocial behavior, here is an account that goes brain region by brain region. And for more on the inner-workings of the justice system, Glenn Greenwald’s new book With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and [...]
Jon Stewart Considers “In God We Trust” Debate Just A Waste of Time Distraction. Is It?
November 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook After watching that clip from The Daily Show, I think I can finally crystalize what I hear from the average secular progressive voting in Congress, writing for The Daily Show, or watching at home when a [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Comedy, Comedy, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Cutural Criticism, Cutural Criticism, Law & Politics, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Political Satire, Political Satire, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Satire, Satire, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats 13 Comments »
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