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Jaime: So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how best to debate the existence of God with religious believers… Kelly: Why would you do that? Jaime: Do what? Kelly: Debate the existence of God with religious believers. What’s the point in that? Jaime: What do you mean, “what’s the point?” We live in the [...]
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A Debate About The Wisdom of Trying To Deconvert People
October 20th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
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Tags: Debate With Believers, Deconverting, Why Debate Believers? 
14 Comments »About Those Germans Trying To Get The Pope Charged With Crimes Against Humanity…
February 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sendai Anonymous has the scoop on how the enemy of our enemy may not be our friend. Your Thoughts?
The Pope’s Weaselly Excuses For Church Child Abuse In The ’70s
January 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke On Christmas, the Pope Benedict XVI tried, pathetically, to minimize the Church’s responsibility for the pedophilia scandals: Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Christianity, Featured, Feminism, Feminism, Politics, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI, Rape, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church Tags: Child Abuse, Feminism, Jason Thibeault, Pedophilia, Pedophilia in The Church, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Revolution 19 Comments »Blaming The Victims Of Anti-Gay Violence
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Andrew Sullivan quotes Joseph Cardinal Ratzinberger’s 1986 “Letter On The Pastoral Care Of Homosexual Persons”: The proper reaction to crimes committed against homosexual persons should not be to claim that the homosexual condition is not disordered. When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced [...]
Calling The Conservative Catholic’s Bluff On Gay Suffering
October 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Michael Voris, who explicitly and unapologetically argued that our democracy should be replaced by a benevolent dictatorship in the form of a Catholic theocracy, recently made another video, advancing a familiar line of reasoning from conservative Catholic theology that homosexuals have been specially chosen by God for their suffering and that they can be a [...]
What Does It Mean To Be “Pro-Catholic”?
September 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Johann Hari makes the case that the most pro-Catholic thing to do is to arrest the pope:
Richard Dawkins’s Case Against The Pope
September 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke This brilliant, efficient, and so very importantly true speech needs to go viral, do your part to make it happen. Your Thoughts?
Hitler’s Remarks About Religion (And, Specifically, Christianity)
September 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In Engalnd, the pope is trying to terrify people into avoiding atheism by once again blaming Nazism on godlessness. The first simple fact is that even were Hitler an atheist (which he manifestly wasn’t) it would not mean either that atheism was false or that his views on morality were at all necessarily entailed by [...]
Jesuit Priest Criticizes Church Demands For Lock Step Agreement
July 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke James Martin, a Jesuit priest and Colbert Show regular turns to the Huffington Post to criticize the Roman Catholic Church’s top down approach to thinking and the culture of fear it engenders: Today in the Catholic Church almost any disagreement to almost any degree with almost any church leader on almost any topic is seen [...]
On God As The Source Of Being But Not Of Evil
July 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Introduction This post is a long one but an important one for understanding what sophisticated Roman Catholic philosophers have traditionally meant when they have said that “God is good” and that the existence of evil is not to be taken as counter-evidence to their belief in God’s goodness. Very often we atheists are dismissed as [...]
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, Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Ethics, Featured, God, God, Historical Philosophy, Historical Philosophy, Metaethics, Metaethics, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI, Problem of Evil, Problem of Evil, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Teleology, Teleology, Virtues, Virtues Tags: Thomas Aquinas No Comments »A Dictatorship Of Relativism?
July 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke BBC Radio 4 analyzes the pope’s catchphrase, “a dictatorship of relativism”, used for describing the secular West. Here’s the program description: The idea that no one has a monopoly on the truth seems to be fixed in the modern Western psyche. But it’s an idea that is under attack. Pope Benedict claims that we are [...]
Posted in Authority, Authority, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Cutural Criticism, Ethics, Ethics, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Metaethics, Metaethics, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Ann Widdecombe, Europe, Leslie Green, Marcello Pera, Moral Aboslutism, Moral Relativism, Rowan Williams, Ruzwan Mohammed, Simon Blackburn, Stephen Wang, United Kingdom No Comments »
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