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Ophelia plucks and highlights a comment so good and philosophically interesting from PZ’s comments section that I just have to reproduce it too. For the background, Colin Tudge falsely claimed that in Richard Dawkins’s new introduction to science for children, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True, Dawkins dogmatically imposes on children a “crude materialism” that [...]
Archive for the ‘'Nuff Said’ Category
Are Supernaturalists Actually Super-materialists?
September 25th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, Love, Love, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mind, PZ Myers, PZ Myers 
Tags: Ophelia Benson, Richard Dawkins 
12 Comments »‘Nuff Said Award Winner: Discidius
September 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke HUMANCENTiPADGet More: SOUTHPARKKyle Broflovski,Eric Cartman,more… On Reddit, in a retort to a plea to stop patronizing people by telling them to read their Bibles and see the supposedly obvious things they are missing, discidius nails many Christians and makes the point for encouraging them to read their Bible more: Most Christians treat the bible like [...]
Posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said Tags: Centipad, I-pad, Software User Agreement, South Park 4 Comments »'Nuff Said Award Winner: James Sweet
August 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke It’s time for another award for a commenter who says something that needs no further commentary. This time the award goes to James Sweet who offered this response to the post about hate messages against an atheist on Facebook: This is probably a minority of Christians who are like this. A significant minority, mind you, [...]
Posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, Christianity, Christianity, Featured, Jesus, Jesus, Morality, Morality, Philosophy Of Religion No Comments »'Nuff Said Award Winner: Holden Mirror On Tea Party Legislative Priorities
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Today’s ‘Nuff Said Award comes not from a Camels With Hammers commenter but a Huffington Post one named Holden Mirror: Between union busting and uterus busting, are you Baggers ever going to do any work on jobs? ‘Nuff Said. Your Thoughts?
Posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics Tags: Tea Party No 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 »Just How Much Control Over Their Children’s Thought Are Parents Entitled To?
January 31st, 2011 Daniel Fincke In reply to yesterday’s open philosophical question whether a Swedish law banning any school, even private ones, from indoctrinating students by teaching their religious tenets as truths (with the ulterior motive of undermining Islamic schools’ abilities to radicalize their students), Mary Young makes a rigorous and eloquent case against such bans well worth highlighting (and [...]
Posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Authority, Authority, Autonomy, Autonomy, Christianity, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Creationism, Creationism, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Education, Featured, Free Speech, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Racism, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: Dogma, Dogmatism, Homeschooling, Indoctrination, Islamophobia, Parents' Rights 21 Comments »‘Nuff Said Award Winner: Mary Young
January 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke It’s been well over a year since I’ve felt inclined to give out a ’nuff said award to a commentator, but Mary’s reply to my post on charity, religion, and conservatism definitely qualifies as a comment which deserves its own blog post and needs no further comment from me: The driving force behind what calls [...]
‘Nuff Said Award Winner: Mike The Monolith
April 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke On the media: For years I’ve heard liberals say the media is too conservative, and the conservatives say the media is too liberal. I’ve always thought some parts of the media were like that kid on the playground that said “Psst! Did you hear what so and so said about your mom?” Controversy sells and [...]
‘Nuff Said Award Winner: Mike Speir On The Sources Of Evangelical Americanism
September 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Forgive me for mining the comments on Unreasonable Faith for yet another post but their community of commentators is spectacular, so it’s inevitable that there will be multiple things worth calling attention to. This comes from Mike Speir (who is also something of a Camels With Hammers regular): My thinking is that Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christians in [...]
‘Nuff Said Award Winner: A Daily Dish Reader
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Karen Armstrong has recently written a book defending an apophatic God against both atheists and religious literalists. Recently she and Richard Dawkins were both asked by the Wall Street Journal to write essays on where evolution leaves God. In reply to Andrew Sullivan’s accommodationism, which came out in his discussions of this debate, one of [...]
Posted in 'Nuff Said, Andrew Sullivan, Atheism, God, New Atheism, Religion Tags: Accommodationism, Karen Armstrong, Richard Dawkins 1 Comment »‘Nuff Said Award Winner:Vorjack
August 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In this thread at Unreasonable Faith, a poster starts a discussion by talking about how he left his life in porn to become a Christian. When confronted with the idea that everything he says he learned about God in the Bible came from human beings, the convert from the porn world in reply claimed that [...]
Posted in 'Nuff Said, Atheism, Francis Collins, Religion Tags: Dualism, Dvaita Dualism, Hindus, Panentheism, Pantheism, Religious Interpretation, Signs, Trinity, Vishnu, Zoroastrianism No Comments »
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