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I always tell my students as they start studying philosophy that it is crucial that they not associate their ideas too closely with themselves. They need to get used to not taking criticism of their ideas personally. I warn them that if they cannot disassociate from their ideas when they fail, they will never be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Evangelicalism’
TOP Q: "How Is It Fair To Question Other People’s Identity-Forming Beliefs While Demanding Respect For One’s Own Belief-Formed Identities?"
February 23rd, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Islam, Islam, LGBTQAA, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, PZ Myers, PZ Myers, Religion, Religion, Today's Open Philosophical Question (TOP Q) 
Tags: Evangelicalism, Identity-Politics, Tolerance 
9 Comments »Clarifying The Relationships Between Dogmatism, Skepticism, And Properly Proportioned Belief
February 22nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke In a post last weekend entitled ”Evangelical Atheism?“ I explored the ways in which some atheists may both be called “evangelical” with some justification and yet deserve to be spared the moral approbation aimed at the most notorious kinds of theistic proselytizers. In reply Greg Teed suggested to me that atheists could not be “evangelical” in any [...]
Evangelical Atheism?
February 19th, 2011 Daniel Fincke So we activist atheist types who like to be outspoken about our atheism and network with other atheists are often derisively called “evangelical” or “proselytizers”. In all cases, the irony is clear and in some cases there are allegations of hypocrisy attached to the claim that we aim to “convert” people. Is it right to [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion Tags: "Atheists Are Just As Bad As Religious People", Atheist Evangelism, Atheist Proslytizers, Christian Evangelism, Converting People, Deconverting People, Emotional Argumentation, Emotional Manipulation, Emotional Persuasion, Evangelical Atheism, Evangelicalism, Evangelism, Evangelism Tactics, Irrational Debate, Proselytizing Atheism, Rational Debate, Street Preaching 15 Comments »Florida Passes Bill Allowing Teachers To Take Part In Student-Led Worship
June 2nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Another legislature with contempt for the 1st Amendment: “I know our football team prays a lot before and after games, and those are always student-led,” [high school junior John Bielby] said. “Once a coach gets involved, it might get more influential or less influential, and it kind of becomes a slippery slope.” That’s why some school [...]
Hillsong
May 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A critical video on the internationally famous, multi-million dollar Australian prosperity Gospel megachurch/music group (the video starts discussing Hillsong at about the 2 minute mark): Your Thoughts?
Evangelical Christian Sexism Galore
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Mark Driscoll the mainstream megachurch pastor at Mars Hill Church attacks stay-at-home dads as “not real men” and, my favorite, “worse than unbelievers.” Ouch dudes, you’re worse than us atheists if you stay home to take care of your kids! Oh snap! Enjoy being on the bottom of the pecking order! We atheists who have real [...]
Marrying For Sex
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers has an interesting and accurate seeming account of the effects of conservative American Christianity’s obsessive and draconian opposition to all premarital sex and its implications for contributing to the hysteria about children learning about same sex couples: I teach at a large university in a conservative part of the country, [...]
Posted in Christianity, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Psychology, Religion, Sex, Sociology Tags: Evangelicalism, Marriage 12 Comments »The Religious Who Cry Offense
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Michael Brull exposes exactly the hypocrisy and evasiveness at the core of religious attempts to silence criticism from atheists on the grounds that it’s inherently “offensive”: Facing a new attack with an international audience playing close attention, religions have as little rational argument in their favour as ever. There was a time when they could [...]
Stuff Evangelicals Like
September 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In the spirit of the sensation Stuff White People Like, comes Stuff Christian Culture Likes which is written by a PK who married a PK. And boy an embarrassing lot of these really take me back. It’s eerie how on target they are. And it’s weird to see some of the newer stuff since I [...]
Valedictorian’s Benediction Gets Way Out Of Hand
September 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Stick with this video to its bizarre ending. I oppose benedictions and forced group prayer in public institutions because of the offensive presumption to speak on behalf of a mixed group in the case of group prayer and the arrogant presumption that the audience accepts the authority of the giver of the benediction to invoke [...]
“Fed up with all this ‘I want to make out with my boyfriend Jesus’ music.’”
July 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Rod Dreher stresses that he has nothing but good will towards Evangelicals and does not mean to bash them but nonetheless relays these interesting critiques of the movement from a couple of former Evangelicals who wound up becoming Orthodox after disaffection with contemporary Evangelical marketing and practices: I pointed to a particular megachurch, and told [...]
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