The Pitfalls of Postmodernism

Tony Debono, a Camels With Hammers reader who I enjoyed getting to know after he friended me on Facebook today, wrote and sent me this, which made me smile:

Hitler’s “Atheism”

Your Thoughts?

Richard Dawkins’s Case Against The Pope

This brilliant, efficient, and so very importantly true speech needs to go viral, do your part to make it happen. Your Thoughts?

Hitler’s Remarks About Religion (And, Specifically, Christianity)

In Engalnd, the pope is trying to terrify people into avoiding atheism by once again blaming Nazism on godlessness. The first simple fact is that even were Hitler an atheist (which he manifestly wasn’t) it would not mean either that atheism was false or that his views on morality were at all necessarily entailed by [...]

Don’t Mess With The Bieber

Apparently even teeny bop pop stars for 12 year old girls have a death threatening contingent among their fans: So what would happen if Justin Bieber was deleted from the internet? After all, the young singer consumer product is a perpetual trending topic on Twitter, and his fans have already twice caused him to cancel a public appearance [...]

Vintage Christian Propaganda

Sadly, the charm of this old-fashioned insipidity is weakened by the fact that the level of thinking and presentation among the hysterical faction of the right wing has been regressing back to this level of mental and moral crudity (or maybe never had a period where it advanced beyond it) and so this stuff all [...]

Daily Hilarity: Like Hitler’s Germany Or Stalin’s Russia

This pretty much sums up contemporary moral debates in the public sphere: Your Thoughts?

What Motivated Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot?

Non-Stamp Collector is back again with a brand new video: Your Thoughts?

Daily Hilarity: Kanye or Hitler?

You could probably quote mine anyone and pull this off but it’s still pretty funny: The comediennes are “Garfunkel and Oates” Your Thoughts?

Philosophical Ethics: Does Calling Someone Evil Explain Anything About Them?

In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]