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Robin: Look, I get it, Jaime. As an atheist, you think that God’s wisdom is foolishness, that God’s righteousness is wickedness, and that the bloody death of Jesus on the cross is hateful and ugly rather than the epitome of love and beauty that Christians like I think it is. The Bible makes it very [...]
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God and Goodness
January 30th, 2012 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Authority, Authority, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Ethics, God, God, Metaethics, Metaethics, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy Of Religion, Problem of Evil, Problem of Evil, Rationalism, Religion, Religion 
Tags: Divine Command Theory, God and Goodness, God's goodness, Theological Voluntarism 
26 Comments »Hell As The Absence of God
January 29th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Robin: I know you don’t want to hear it, but Jesus loves you, Jaime. Jaime: Yes, yes, a man who either never existed or who is long dead and rotted by now loves me—and will torture me in hell forever if I don’t worship him, of course. Robin: He just wants you to love him but [...]
Posted in Atheism, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, God, God, Jesus, Jesus, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism Tags: God as Goodness, Goodness, Hell as Absence of God 84 Comments »Learning About Love From The Bible
November 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Using the “New Comprehensive Self-Referencing, Taking The Words on the Page To Mean What They Actually Say Version” of the Bible (that’s the NCSRTTWOTPTMWTASV), NonStampCollector shows us how the biblical God of love (the God who is love) models and illuminates for us all the virtues of love described in 1 Corinthians 13: Your Thoughts?
Jesus Wouldn’t DARE Coerce People Into Charity!
November 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke You know, for a guy who’s supposedly all about hating gays, Jesus as sure had a lot of people’s arms up his ass using him as a ventriloquist puppet. As far as I’m concerned when nearly everyone except serious historians talk about Jesus as an authority who proves their own values are correct, they had [...]
Posted in Atheism, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus, Religion Tags: Easier For Camel To Go Through Eye of Needle, Hell, Jesus, Jesus and Ayn Rand, Jesus and Hayek, Jesus Rich People Hell, Lazarus and Rich Man, Libertarianism, Luke 16:19-31, Luke 6:20-26, Mark 10:17-25, Matthew 25:31-46, Occupy Jesus, Occupy Wall Street, Rich People, Rich Young Man, Sheep and Goats, Threats of Hell, Woe to the Rich 13 Comments »Attention Religious Believers, THIS Is What It’s Like For Atheists Reading Your Holy Books:
October 4th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Hank offers a brilliant analogy: Say you’ve picked out a private kindergarten for your little girl, and you’ve gone down to take a look at the place to check on a last few details. During the hourlong tour and consultation, you ask “What are the classroom rules here at Bronfield Academy? What will be expected [...]
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Philosophy Of Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism Tags: Bible No Comments »The Evils of the Sermon on the Mount (Part 1)
September 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Progressives, regardless of whether they are liberal Christians or non-believers, like to accuse fundamentalist Christians of ignoring Jesus’s supposed message of love and tolerance which is supposedly epitomized by his remarks in the Sermon on the Mount. Actually reading the Bible, Jesus does not actually always live up to the billing progressives give him as [...]
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Feminism, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Jesus, Jesus, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sex, Women's Issues Tags: Sermon on the Mount 12 Comments »What I Think About How To Engage Religious Liberals, Moderates, and Fundamentalists
September 2nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke In my “What I Think About” series, I am offering readers concise overviews of my views on various important topics. I have already covered objective values, faith and religion, science and faith, and why I call myself a gnostic theist/agnostic adeist. Below I consider in some detail the challenges of supporting liberal and moderate religious people in their struggles [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Koran, Koran, Philosophy Of Religion, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism 7 Comments »“And There Are No Christians In Med School”
August 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I have an idea. In the future whenever you hear someone falsely say that there are no atheists in foxholes, don’t disagree with them. Don’t point out to them that this insults the bravery of countless non-theist soldiers by implying that without belief in God and an afterlife no one would ever courageously put his [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Divine Intervention, Divine Intervention, Faith, Faith, God, God, Jesus, Jesus, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Prayer, Prayer, Problem of Evil, Problem of Evil, Psychology, Psychology, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Skepticism, Skepticism 5 Comments »Robert Price on the Mythic Precedents of the Jesus Story
April 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus, Religion, Religion, Skepticism, Skepticism 3 Comments »Rape in the Bible
March 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke What does the alleged source of true and absolute morals teach us about rape? Thanks to Dwight for the find. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Judaism, Judaism, Rape, Religion, Religion Tags: Biblical Atrocities, biblical denial of human rights No Comments »"Why Women Should Not Be Allowed To Vote"
March 9th, 2011 Daniel Fincke As Ellis on Facebook put it, the Bible was “written by and for men like this guy”: It’s not a divinely inspired book any more than this jackass is a prophet. Your Thoughts?
14 Year Old Girl Evaluates Whether Bible Is Good For Children
February 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is both hilarious and inspiring: via Blag Hag. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Religion, Religion, Skepticism, Skepticism, Videos No Comments »Dawkins Against Religion's Claim To Superiority Because It Offers Absolute Morality
February 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is one of the most concise, eloquent, and accurate statements on the problem with religious absolutism in morality and the superiority of secular, non-absolutist approaches to morality I have ever heard. And it is certainly Dawkins’s best 2 and a half minutes on the topic of morality I have ever heard: Thanks to Lucy. [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Authority, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Koran, Koran, Metaethics, Metaethics, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Secularism, Videos Tags: Absolute Morality, Non-Absolute Morality, Richard Dawkins 2 Comments »Faith Is Not A Virtue; Faith Is Gullibility
February 16th, 2011 Daniel Fincke There are many virtues the religious have, even in distinctively religious forms which an atheist like I can appreciate specifically as religious virtues, but faith is not one of these virtues. It is a vice. And Matt Dillahunty’s video below features, especially in the last few minutes, an eloquent, passionate, personal explanation of what makes [...]
Questions Intelligent Christians Must Answer
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Earlier tonight on the internets I went around promoting a list I made a while ago of my then 10 favorite atheist YouTube video makers. One glaring omission from that list was the great ProfMTH, so I felt obliged to call attention to one of his videos tonight: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus, Miracles, Miracles, Prayer, Prayer, Videos No Comments »Sundaily Hilarity: Bible Stories For Children
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Good ol’ 2 Kings 2:23-25 and Genesis 19:4-38 made accessible to the kids: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Bible, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Religulous, Religulous, Videos Tags: Biblical Violence, Elisha, Lot, Sodom and Gamorrah 3 Comments »Darwin's Birthdaily Hilarity: Creationism
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke DarkMatter2525 sums up creationism: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Comedy, Comedy, Creationism, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, God, God, Parody, Parody, Religion, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire No Comments »I Have To Completely Rethink My Atheism
January 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke after hearing the devastating argument in this video: I just don’t know what to think now, guys. Your Thoughts?
TOP Q: Where Are The Lines Between Peaceable Death Penalty Advocacy And Criminal Incitement?
January 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Last week a heinous, conscience-shocking injustice occurred when the brave, openly gay, Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato (pictured above) was murdered shortly after a Ugandan newspaper featured him on the cover with the headline: “100 PIctures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak” and the words “Hang Them” next to it. The AP photo of the newspaper [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Bible, Bible, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Free Speech, Free Speech, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Today's Open Philosophical Question (TOP Q) Tags: Death Penalty, Hate Speech 1 Comment »Mutable Morality, Not Subjective Morality. Moral Pluralism, Not Moral Relativism.
January 18th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I hope soon to engage a few of the specifics of a debate going on at our friend George’s blog Misplaced Grace which started when a Christian apologist named Peter tried to argue that atheism has no way of ruling out pedophilia as immoral. Peter’s first remarks were critical of posts at Jason Thibeault’s blog Lousy Canuck. [...]
Posted in Atheism, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, God, God, Historical Philosophy, Metaethics, Metaethics, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Religion, Religion 17 Comments »Biblical Scholar Bart Ehrman’s Personal Deconversion + Problems With The Biblical Records
January 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I identify with his personal account in the first two minutes quite a bit: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Religion, Religion, Videos Tags: Bart Ehrman, Biblical Scholarship, Book of Mark, Ending of the Book of Mark 2 Comments »How Christian Beliefs And Values Are No More Creditable With America’s Founding Than Islamic Ones
December 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Gary Bauer displays a hilarious sense of grievance in his article “If Christians Were Treated Like Muslims”. I want to take a few posts to fully dissect all of its self-absorbed, phony, distorted victimhood. The first three sentences merited a full post themselves, so here we go. Bauer starts out with the following falsehood: Few [...]
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, Islam, Koran, Koran, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Religion, Religion, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats Tags: American History, Declaration of Independence, Dr. Gary Bauer, Gary Bauer, Intolerance, Persecution Complex, Tolerance 2 Comments »Dawkins Debunking The Story Of Noah’s Ark
December 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Bible, Bible, Biology, Biology, Evolution, Evolution, Religion, Religion, Science Tags: Richard Dawkins No Comments »True Religion?
August 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Many a religious person defending her own religious beliefs will argue that a given politically, morally, or intellectually unflattering interpretation of her faith is simply not a true representation of her faith. While the question of who has the right or the adequate means to decisively determine with any rational clarity which competing interpretation of any [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, History, Judaism, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Pseudoscience, Rationalism, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Science, Science, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats Tags: Literalism, Philosophy of Science, Primitivism, Ronald Dworkin 12 Comments »Why Progressive Interpretations Of The Old Testament Still Do Not Justify Its God Morally
July 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In reply to this video on various immoral things outright commanded in what is supposed to be God’s law in the Old Testament, Loyal writes: Militaristic non-Christians often seize upon the many difficult passages where God is condoning morally repugnant acts. I am glad you admit that they are morally repugnant acts and neither morally [...]
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