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Christians who defend the Old Testament genocides are guilty of either relativistic authoritarianism (anything can be okay as long as God wills it and His will has simply changed from the Old Testament days to the New Testament one) or, possibly worse, theoretical agreement with all the normal justifications of genocide as long as God [...]
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A Challenge To Christians To Unqualifiedly Condemn Genocide
November 10th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Bible, Christianity, Ethics, Fundamentalism, God, Hypocrisy, Moral Psychology, Morality, New Atheism, Philosophy, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Secularism 
Tags: Biblical Atrocities, Biblical Genocide, Biblical Violence, genocide, Religious Authoritarianism, Religious Relativism, Religious Violence, ZJemptv 
10 Comments »“Why Should God Bless America?”
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This laughable awfulness would be qualify as funny if the theocratic attitudes it expressed were not so serious and were the forum for this nonsense was not a presidential debate. Rachel Maddow had a great report last night on this year’s meeting of the same group that sponsored this. The footage of the astoundingly self-absorbed [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Fundamentalism, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tags: "God Bless America", "Why Should God Bless America", Carrie Prejean, Rachel Maddow, Religious Authoritarianism, The Church of God Choir of Springfield Ohio, Values Voter, Values Voter Presidential Debate No Comments »Biblical Scholar—Western Ethics Come From The Greeks, Not The Bible
September 15th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Biblical scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Sheffield, Philip Davies writes that the idea that religion bestows ethical value on human life is the most ridiculous thing he’s ever heard. First he lays into the divine command theory throughout the Torah and proverbs as genuine routes to proper (or even defensible) moral motivation [...]
Posted in Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Judaism, Plato, Roman Catholic Church Tags: Alexander The Great, Ancient Greece, Aristotle, Athenian Democracy, Athens, biblical denial of human rights, Biblical Prophets, bigotry, Caesar Augustus, Democracy, Habakkuk, Haggai, Joel, Julius Caesar, Nahum, Obadiah, Philip Davies, Prophets, Religious Authoritarianism, Tyranny, Xenophobia, Zechariah No Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Tradition’s Advocate And Enforcer, Opposed To Merely Provisional Forms Of Trust
September 12th, 2009 Daniel Fincke David appeals to MacIntyre to raise a really interesting question: What is your assessment of faith as the starting point of tradition constituted inquiry as understood by MacIntyre? This is accepting the standards of argument, explanation, justification internal to and partially constitutive of the extended argument that constitutes what MacIntyre calls a tradition. In this [...]
Posted in Atheism, Cultural Secularism, Disambiguating Faith, Epistemology, Faith, Featured, Philosophy, Political Secularism, Religion, Religious Secularism, Secularism Tags: Alasdair MacIntyre, Authoritarianism, Cross-Perspectival Criticism, Cross-Tradition Criticism, Gestalt Shifts, Multiculturalism, Paradigms, Perspectivism, Provisional Trust, Religious Authoritarianism, Tradition, Traditionalism 1 Comment »‘Nuff Said Award Winner: Lord Robert May On Religion’s Connection To Authoritarianism, Its Past Uses, And Its Current Fundamentalist Risk
September 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke via Jerry Coyne come remarks from Oxford’s Lord Robert May, president of the British Science Festival and former chief scientific adviser to the British government, expressing views which I think are in keeping with (while further developing) the broader philosophical pictures that I lay out here, here, here, here, here, and, most of all, here. Lord [...]
Posted in Atheism, Authoritarianism, Cultural Secularism, Faith, Fundamentalism, Political Secularism, Religion, Religious Extremism, Secularism Tags: Authoritarianism, Faith vs. Evidence, Faith vs. Reason, Fundamentalist Backlash, Lord Robert May, Moral Progress, Non-zero-sumness, Religious Authoritarianism, Religious Traditionalism, The Expanding Circle No Comments »Jailtime For Singing The Koran
August 5th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Religious authoritarianism strikes again: Mohsen Namjoo, a singer-songwriter who has been described as the “Iranian Bob Dylan”, has been sentenced to five years in prison for recording music that “dishonours” passages from the Qur’an. The sentencing was in absentia, as Namjoo lives in Vienna. The musician was convicted for “his unconventional singing” of the Muslim [...]
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