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As I have expressed a number of times in the past, I am a gnostic atheist. I am an atheist in the sense that I neither believe in nor worship, appease, pray to, or in any other way imagine myself to interact with personal gods. Simply lacking such belief and refraining from related practices is [...]
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It's Atheism, Not Adeism
June 26th, 2011 
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, Atheism, Atheism, Featured, God, God, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion 
Tags: Agnostic Atheist, Agnosticism, Deism, Gnostic Atheist 
12 Comments »You Might Be An Atheist Even If You Hate The New Atheists
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke There are a lot of people who dislike Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, PZ Myers, and other prominent “New Atheists” (or, as some prefer “Gnu Atheists”) so much that they do not want to be called atheists. John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts had a post (and many remarks in the comments section [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Featured, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, PZ Myers, PZ Myers, Secularism Tags: Agnosticism, Deism, Gnu Atheism, John Wilkins 7 Comments »Distinguishing The Atheist Agnostic, The Theist Gnostic, The Atheist Gnostic, and The Theist Agnostic
October 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Peter Brietbart defines and schematizes distinctions between different kinds of atheists, theists, agnostics, and gnostics which have been growing in popularity in recent years. Rather than misleadingly defining atheists as exclusively those who claim to know there are no gods, theists as those who claim to know there is a god (or gods) and agnostics [...]
Posted in Atheism, Epistemology, Faith, Featured, God, Uncategorized Tags: Agnosticism, Atheist Agnostic, Atheist Gnostic, Belief, Deism, Gnosticism, Justified Belief, Peter Brietbart, theism, Theist Agnostic, Theist Gnostic, Unbelief 25 Comments »On Comparing God To The Tooth Fairy
September 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke As I argued to Clergy Guy recently, there is a qualitative difference between talking about the possible scientific/metaphysical principle of a ground of all being defensibly called “God” and talking about one of the personal deities of historical religions who are claimed to engage with each other and with humanity in highly specified ways by [...]
On The Possible God Of Philosophy And Cosmology Vs. The Personal, Historical God Of Faith
September 5th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This post is inspired by some excellent remarks from Daniel Dennett in reply to William Lane Craig’s vigorous cosmological arguments for the existence of God (which you can see him make in a separate debate here). Here is the Dennett video, below it you’ll find a rough transcript I have produced of it, and then [...]
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Cosmology, Daniel Dennett, Faith, Featured, God, Philosophy, Religion, Videos, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Deism, Ground of all being, Literal Interpretations of Religion, Metaphorical Interpretations of Religion, Myth, Religious Anthropomorphism, Superstition, William Lane Craig 6 Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Subjectivity Which Claims Objectivity
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a previous post, I wrote the following of Rod Dreher’s decision to inculcate in his children a faithfulness that would safeguard their faith against intellectual faltering: I can say that it is utterly depressing you could be so self aware about inculcating your children to believe regardless of truth or falsity, to put faithfulness [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemology, Ethics, Faith, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Metaethics, Philosophy, Political Secularism, Religion, Secularism, Spinoza, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Deism, Experience of God, Ground of all being, Irrationalism, Kierkegaard, Knowing God, Objectivism, Personal God, Relativism, Rod Dreher, Subjectivism, Suicide Bombers 8 Comments »
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