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If Biologists Believed in Evolution . . . Maybe They Could Fly3 comments

Dave wrote 4 weeks ago: Larry Arnhart, an honest evolutionist, gives us this: Oddly enough, it really is true that many biol … more →

Tags: Darwinism, Evolution, Superstitions, Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Whining

Anne Hutchinson's Red Regiment and the Cultural Historians, part two

clarespark wrote 2 months ago:      What follows is a review of the historical and popular literature on Anne Hutchinson in the twe … more →

Tags: 1, Anne Hutchinson, john winthrop, antinomian controversy, John Cotton

Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Subjectivity Which Claims Objectivity3 comments

Daniel Fincke wrote 3 months ago: In a previous post, I wrote the following of Rod Dreher’s decision to inculcate in his childre … more →

Tags: Philosophy, ethics, Metaethics, Religion, Epistemology, Atheism, Spinoza, Faith, Intellectual Virtues

Disambiguating Faith: Faith In The Sub-, Pre-, Or Un-conscious 3 comments

Daniel Fincke wrote 3 months ago: In previous posts (which you will not need to have read to understand this one, but which I recommen … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Religion, Epistemology, Music, Psychology, Faith, Arts, Disambiguating Faith, Myth

Disambiguating Faith: Faith Is Neither Brainstorming, Hypothesizing, Nor Simply Reasoning Counter-Intuitively1 comment

Daniel Fincke wrote 3 months ago: In this third reply to Adam (you can read the first two here and here, but need not in order to foll … more →

Tags: Philosophy, ethics, Epistemology, religion and science, Probability, Epistemic Justification, Disambiguating Faith, Richard Feynman, Eucharist

How PZ Myers Differs From Rush Limbaugh

Daniel Fincke wrote 3 months ago: Prometheus Unbound takes issue with PZ Myers: I certainly understand why people like PZ Myers’s styl … more →

Tags: ethics, Atheism, Faith, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Vices, PZ Myers, Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Political Secularism

In Defense Of Mocking And Embarrassing Religion4 comments

Daniel Fincke wrote 3 months ago: Unreasonable Faith just profiled this interesting looking documentary on a tour of debates between C … more →

Tags: Religion, Atheism, Faith, Christopher Hitchens, Why I Am Not a Christian, Secularism, Atheistic Ethics, Rationalism, Unreasonable Faith

When (And How) Should We Bother To Push The Issues?1 comment

Daniel Fincke wrote 4 months ago: Njustus offers a probing challenge to my recent post in which I defend Daniel Dennett’s argume … more →

Tags: Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Daniel Dennett, Faith, Intellectual Virtues, Political Secularism, Rationalism, Religion, Secularism

Should Freethinkers Give Up On Replacing Religious Rituals With Their Own?

Daniel Fincke wrote 4 months ago: In reply to a reader of The Daily Dish on the pitfalls of “freethinkers’ groups” t … more →

Tags: Religion, Atheism, Faith, Christianity, Secularism, Rationalism, conformity, Ritual, Cults

Medieval erotica and Icon of Erotic Art #467 comments

jahsonic wrote 5 months ago: Medieval erotica Hell detail from Giotto’s Last Judgement As Peter Webb notes in his excellent … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Art, eroticism, European culture, Grotesque, Horror, Icons of erotic art, Literature, Transgression

"Gradiva" by Alain Robbe-Grillet out on DVD

jahsonic wrote 5 months ago: Still from Gradiva (C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle) by Alain Robbe-Grillet The good people at Mondo … more →

Tags: 1001 things to do before you die, eroticism, european cinema, Exploitation, Eye Candy, female sexuality, Fiction, French Culture, Guilty Pleasures

Never mind the bollocks, here's Rabelais

jahsonic wrote 5 months ago: Never mind the bollocks, here’s Rabelais Friar John and Panurge give the blason and contreblas … more →

Tags: Literature, Grotesque, Surrealism, Experimental, Fiction, Genre, Theory, Fantastique, absurd

Introducing Le Comte de Gabalis

jahsonic wrote 6 months ago: Introducing Le Comte de Gabalis Sourced via pierrepainblanc I’ve just spent a good deal of hou … more →

Tags: Literature, eroticism, Fiction, Life, Fantastique, Psychology, Magic, French Culture, Subculture

RIP Stanley Chapman (1925 - 2009)

jahsonic wrote 6 months ago: RIP Stanley Chapman (1925 – 2009)[1] via www.tate.org.uk Cover illustration for Subsidia Patap … more →

Tags: absurd, anarchism, Architecture, Avant Garde, Cult Fiction, Culture, Experimental, Eye Candy, French Culture

Introducing Mr.Fox: Darker Deeper

jahsonic wrote 7 months ago: Introducing Mr.Fox: Darker Deeper Mr.Fox: Darker Deeper[1][2] is an Anglophone visual culture blog w … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Blogroll, eroticism, European culture, Exploitation, Eye Candy, Fantastique, Horror, Internet

Nikolai Gogol @200

jahsonic wrote 8 months ago: Nikolai Gogol @200 Poprishchin, protagonist of Nikolai Gogol’s “Diary of a Madman” painted by … more →

Tags: Grotesque, Surrealism, Fantastique, Underground, Subversion, Transgression, 1001 things to do before you die, Underrated, Psychology

Are there objective truths about God?1 comment

Wintery Knight wrote 8 months ago: In a lecture entitled “Are there Objective Truths About God?”, philosopher William Lane … more →

Tags: Polemics, William Lane Craig, Postmodernism, Relativism, Exclusivism, Moral Relativism, universalism, Self Refutation, Laws of Logic

[Pause for Thought] Stem Cells1 comment

Lex Fear wrote 8 months ago: Just so we’re clear, everyone knows that you can collect stem cells from a placenta. right? Te … more →

Tags: realpolitik, duh, The Purpose Missing Church, The Religious Wrong, Warring Memes, religion / science, Morals & Ethics, america, Protest

Meet the world's most influential witchdoctor9 comments

arthurvandelay wrote 8 months ago: From The Guardian: The Pope today reignited the controversy over the Catholic church’s stance … more →

Tags: Blog Against Theocracy, Catholicism, Christofascism, Church-state separation, Crimes Against Humanity, ethics, health, Human Rights, magical thinking


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