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The Inaugural Patheos Atheists Blog Carnival!

Daniel Fincke — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:24:50 +0000

I am so proud to blog alongside my colleagues on Patheos's atheism channel. In this round up of highlights of my fellow bloggers' work, you should get a sense for just how high quality their writing and insights are.

Frank Oz’s Eulogy To Jim Henson

Daniel Fincke — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:00:32 +0000

We lost one of the greatest creative geniuses in American history 23 years ago today. Here was the great Frank Oz’s moving and fittingly quirky memorialization of his friend and collaborator. Last year I wrote a post on how much Kermit means to me and why. Here’s part 1 of a wonderful documentary that covers [...]

4 Kinds of Irony and Nietzsche. An Excerpt From My Dissertation

Daniel Fincke — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:41:51 +0000

A peek inside my dissertation! I love this stuff about irony that I worked out in this section. Irony is such a generally ill-explicated subject. I wanted to blog about it today but decided I had already done it well enough in my dissertation and didn't want to put in a ton of work to replicate what I had already come up with. Tell me what you think!

A CWH Mother’s Day Special: Parenting, Atheism, and Religion From A Few Angles

Daniel Fincke — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:00:25 +0000

In honor of Mother's Day, I decided to collect a few things old and new that explore important aspects of parenting and, particularly, its intersections with atheism and religion--and their conflicts.

Oh You Can Get Good People To Do Bad Things Without Religion Alright…

Daniel Fincke — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:36:51 +0000

Sometimes atheists become enamored with some pretty psychologically shallow memes. In this post, I fisk one.

“What Atheists Wish Christians Knew”

Daniel Fincke — Sun, 12 May 2013 13:33:02 +0000

Neil Carter provides a pretty accurate and pleasant primer on what bothers a lot of atheists, from a non-antitheist perspective: For more, read my Top 10 Tips For Reaching Out To Atheists. Your Thoughts?

Does American Plutocracy Have Any Limits?

Daniel Fincke — Sun, 12 May 2013 06:00:00 +0000

Amazing. First they got the banks deregulated, then they made obscene, unsustainable profits, crashed the economy, got bailed outwith billions of dollars of taxpayer money, threw a record number of people out of their homes, laid people off, cut workers' hours to part time, overworked the remaining full timers grateful to still have jobs, made record profits, created hardly any new jobs, and NOW they've had the gall and the power to get the House of Representatives to vote to eliminate the rules guaranteeing time and a half pay for overtime doing certain jobs. How long until the plutocrats stop running this country? What is it going to take to stop them? Your Thoughts?

Philosophers’ Carnival #151

Daniel Fincke — Sun, 12 May 2013 04:40:56 +0000

A sampler of posts from philosophy blogs this past month.

Kings Firecracker Jump Rope Team

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 11 May 2013 07:56:12 +0000

These girls are impressive: Your Thoughts?

Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal

Daniel Fincke — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:32:02 +0000

Genius. Hey girl, speaking of Ryan Gosling, did you know that I wrote movie reviews from time to time too? Here is one I wrote about the film Lars and the Real Girl (starring Ryan Gosling) in which I praised it for the moving way it depicted a humanist ideal for caring for those with mental illness: “Therapeutic Projection” or “How Lars and the Real Girl Made Me Cry”. I cried because I'm sensitive like that. [caption id="attachment_27418" align="alignnone" width="600"] Dan Fincke Says "Hey Girl", I cry at movies that treat mentally ill people like they matter.[/caption] Your Thoughts?