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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Religulous’ Category
The Argument from the Bible in the Briefcase
February 18th, 2012
Daniel Fincke Last night James Croft attended a lecture by famous Christian apologist (and Oxford Professor of Mathematics), John Lennox. James was struck by the especial susceptibility of the American audience to emotional appeals, which led them to give a charming but intellectually shallow, evasive, and unoriginal defense of belief a standing ovation: This shows us something [...]
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?
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?
Dan Barker Makes Sense of the Gospel Message
December 3rd, 2011
Daniel Fincke I know Dan Barker claims to be only a former Christian minister but he still has a gift for bringing the Gospel message alive in a fresh, new way that makes powerful sense of it. It’s weird it would take an atheist’s description to make me see angles in the story of salvation which I [...]
Satanic Smurfs and Hilarious Unintended Sexual Double Entendres Galore
October 16th, 2011
Daniel Fincke This just has to be seen to be believed. Via Unreasonable Faith which also relays a video on the dangers of Pokemon while they’re at it. Your Thoughts?
Lady Gaga Caught In A Bad Romance With Satan
September 28th, 2011
Daniel Fincke httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I&ob=av3e For those of you who enjoy crazy religious conspiracy theories involving Satanism, the Illuminati, the Freemasons and Lady Gaga, get out your decoder rings because have I got a forward for you (sans the pictures that interspersed the crazy text):
William Lane Craig’s Origin Story
September 19th, 2011
Daniel Fincke Deacon Duncan, our Freethought Blogs neighbor at Alethian Worldview has a post at his original site, Evangelical Realism, where yesterday he analyzed William Lane Craig’s cosmological arguments for the existence of God by William Lane Craig. In setting up he recapped part of Craig’s journey to his place as America’s most popular Christian apologist: As we saw [...]
When Religious People Accuse Us of Being Religious, As An Insult
September 18th, 2011
Daniel Fincke Don’t you hate it when anti-atheist pro-faith religionists ridiculously claim, as a put down, that atheism (or evolution) is a dogma or a faith or a religion or that it treats something as holy and as its “god”, etc.? Hank amusingly sums up the absurdity of such attempts to defend dogmatic faith-based religions from atheists and [...]
Boy, Theology Is Hard: Archbishop Dolan Says God Used 9/11 To End Atheism In New York
September 11th, 2011
Daniel Fincke We atheists are often accused of not taking on any serious theological arguments but picking on the low hanging fruit—the superstitious mythical obviously false bullshit that actual ordinary believers actually believe. We are assured that if only we engaged the serious thinkers of the great faiths we would have to respect the depth of what [...]
Suing The Devil
September 6th, 2011
Daniel Fincke Nobody makes terribly blunt and bluntly terrible propaganda movies like the Evangelical Christians: Not a bad cast selling their souls in this one. Surprising how many mainstream actors have been appearing in these preachy schlocky un-self-aware imagination-free self-parodies the Evangelicals make. The kind of pathetic thing is that I remember watching Devil’s Advocate as an [...]
Too Pitifully Doleful and Delusional To Hate
September 6th, 2011
Daniel Fincke Okay, so the whole theocratic, historical revisionist, mythologizing, founding-father-worshipping, flag-waving, warmongering, posturing, self-righteous, faux-libertarian, white resentment-based Christianist identity politics of the “Tea Party” usually completely repulses me. But there is something about the pitiful dolefulness and delusional foolishness about the corny song below (“I Heard George Washington Weeping”) that I find peculiarly endearing. Maybe it’s [...]
20 Christian Academics Speaking About God
September 5th, 2011
Daniel Fincke So many religious believers I encounter want to cite the existence of smart religious people as proof enough that their beliefs are rational. Below is a video just demonstrating how unintelligible, contradictory, or explicitly anti-reason many otherwise brilliant and highly credentialed scholars sound when they start actually explaining the religious beliefs that laypeople want to [...]
Scientists Examine Evidence For Scientology
September 3rd, 2011
Daniel Fincke The results are shocking: Your Thoughts?
“Typing in Tongues”
September 1st, 2011
Daniel Fincke Televangelist Juanita Bynum is on the cutting edge of religulousness:
Bill Maher's Challenge To Those Expecting Jesus To Return May 21
May 4th, 2011
Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
David Cross on Perceptions of Heaven
April 21st, 2011
Daniel Fincke Hilarious (angry) stand up. He essentially starts at 0:50: via Godless Girl. Your Thoughts?
Poe or No Poe: "Prayers For Atheists Answered"
March 14th, 2011
Daniel Fincke Okay, it’s another installment of our series wherein we try to determine whether religious craziness is either genuine or a spoof which is so hard to distinguish from the real thing because the real thing is so insane to begin with already. So, is this real morally bankrupt, self-absorbed superstitiousness or just satire of it? [...]
Sundaily Hilarity: Carman's Revival In The Land and A Witch's Invitation
March 6th, 2011
Daniel Fincke I’ve been doing a little reminiscing this afternoon about the insanely cheesy contemporary Christian music I was into at 14 years old. Though I was never a pentecostal and never particularly into “demonology” or other “spirit”-based superstitiousness, these two songs were as cool and edgy as it got for my young fundamentalist Christian brain: Your [...]
Trainwreck of the Day
March 5th, 2011
Daniel Fincke A couple Christian kids with a nauseating, badly performed anti-atheist song set to “My Humps” (via Greg Laden, whose categorizations of the video say it all about the video’s contents): And then there’s “Don’t Cha Wish Your Savior Was Right Like Mine”: Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: God's "Unconditional" Love
March 5th, 2011
Daniel Fincke This pretty much sums it up: As I have argued before (in Conceptual Problems For The Ideal of Unconditional Love), I think anyone, not just the Christians, would have a hard time making a theory of unconditional love coherent. Your Thoughts?
Christians vs. Muslim in Front of the White House
March 3rd, 2011
Daniel Fincke Ah, faith-based religion. A video like this shows how we desperately need it for moral guidance. What else could make ordinary people like these behave in such admirable ways? Your Thoughts?
Poe or No Poe? "Heaven Sex"
February 21st, 2011
Daniel Fincke I have been inspired to introduce a new series on Camels With Hammers which I am entitling “Poe or No Poe?” and which will run however frequently or infrequently as proves necessary. In “Poe or No Poe?” posts, I will offer you lunacy riddled statements from apparent fundamentalists and other extremists around the internet and [...]




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