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Goodness Is A Factual Matter (Goodness=Effectiveness) Grounding Objective Value Independent Of Human Interests And Moralities Effectiveness Is The Primary Goal In Itself, Not Merely A Means Non-Reductionistic Analysis Of Values Into Facts On The Intrinsic Connection Between Being And Goodness Deriving An Atheistic, Naturalistic, Realist Account Of Morality On Good And Evil For Non-Existent PeopleTELEOLOGICAL / CONSEQUENTIALIST ETHICS
How Our Morality Realizes Our Humanity Maximal Self-Realization In Self-Obliteration: The Existential Paradox of Heroic Self-Sacrifice My Perfectionistic, Egoistic AND Universalistic, Indirect Consequentialism (And Contrasts With Other Kinds) On Teleology and Intellectual Virtues and Vices (5)VIRTUES
Rightful Pride: Identification With One’s Own Admirable Powers And Effects The Harmony Of Humility And Pride Conceptual Problems For The Ideal of Unconditional Love How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways Call It Volitional Love Rather Than Unconditional LovePLEASURE, PAIN
What Is Happiness And Why Is It Good? Pleasure And Pain As Intrinsic Instrumental Goods What Does It Mean For Pleasure And Pain To Be “Intrinsically Instrumental” Goods? Subjective Valuing And Objective Values My Perspectivist, Teleological Account Of The Relative Values Of Pleasure And PainGOOD WITHOUT GOD
On The Incoherence Of Divine Command Theory And Why Even If God DID Make Things Good And Bad, Faith-Based Religions Would Still Be Irrelevant The Separability Of Metaethics From Questions Of Theism Are Sex and Morality Merely “Evolutionary Tricks”? For God or Morality? On Those Who’d Hold Morality Hostage For Faith Being Personally Moral Is Not Enough, Atheists Need A Coherent Metaethics Can You Have A Heart Without Having “The Heart of God”?MORAL PLURALISM
Towards A “Non-Moral” Standard Of Ethical Evaluation Further Towards A “Non-Moral” Standard Of Ethical Evaluation Moral vs. Non-Moral ValuesMORAL MUTABILITY
Mutable Morality, Not Subjective Morality. Moral Pluralism, Not Moral Relativism. How Morality Can Change Through Objective Processes And In Objectively Defensible WaysMORAL INTUITIONISM
Against Moral Intuitionism Rejecting And Reconciling Moral Intuitionist Ideas With My Naturalist Account Of GoodnessSUBJECTIVISM
I Am A Moral Naturalist, Not A SubjectivistRELIGION WITHIN REASON
Against Accommodationism: Religion Has NO Rightful Claim To An Unencroachable “Magisteria” Of Its Own True Religion? How Jon Stewart Dropped The Ball On The Faith And Science Quesiton (But How Religion Can Be Redeemed Nonetheless) Why I Think Theistic Religion’s Psychological Grip Can Be Weakened Or BrokenTowards Atheistic Religions (Or Away From Them, Depending On How You Define “Religions”)MEANING AND "SPIRITUALITY" WITHIN REASON
On Defending True Spirituality And Taking The Word Back From Spiritually Bankrupt Fundamentalism I Am Interviewed About My Personal (Atheistic) Religiosity/Spirituality Is It A Waste Of Time For Atheists To Care About Spirituality? On The Meaning Of Meaning Character As Fate And Environment As Variability Not “I’ll Pray For You” But “I Love You”APOSTASY
Apostasy As A Religious Act (Or “Why A Camel Hammers The Idols Of Faith”) Sex And Apostasy Defending Apostates’ Intellects Against A Dismissive Christian ApologistSYMPATHY FOR THE RELIGIOUS
Can You Really Love Religious People If You Hate Their Religion? What Can An Atheist Love In People’s Religiosity? The Complicated Relationship Of An Apostate To His Religious Friends And His Reilgious PastCIVILITY BTWN ATHEISTS AND THEISTS
Is Debate Between Believers And Non-Believers Inevitably Futile? The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth—But With No Name Calling When (And How) Should We Bother To Push The Issues? On Meeting People Where They Are TOP Q: “How Is It Fair To Question Other People’s Identity-Forming Beliefs While Demanding Respect For One’s Own Belief-Formed Identities?” Top 10 Tips For Reaching Out To Atheists Does Faith Make You An Idiot? What’s Wrong With Prejudice And Is It Prejudicial To Dislike Someone Over His Bad Thinking? PZ Myers Shouldn’t Sound Like Sarah PalinROMAN CATHOLICS
The Pope’s Weaselly Excuses For Church Child Abuse In The ’70sAPPLIED ETHICS
Ricky Gervais, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, And Ethical Dilemmas In Comedy Legalism Over Life: Nun Supports Life-Saving Abortion And Gets Excommunicated Moral Actions, Moral Sentiments, Moral Motives, and Moral Justifications: More On The Nun Excommunicated For Approving A Life-Saving AbortionPROBLEM OF EVIL
On God As The Source Of Being But Not Of Evil Why Worship Someone With Mysterious Motives?ATHEIST SOLIDARITY
The “A” Word Who Cares About Atheists? You Might Be An Atheist Even If You Hate The New Atheists My Atheistic Reply To Rabbi Adam Jacobs’s Open Letter To The Atheist Community Are Atheists An Oppressed Minority?THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
The Religious Conservative’s False Choice: “Big Brother” Or “Heavenly Father” Thoughts On The Ethics Of Private Vs. Publicly-Mediated Generostiy How Christian Beliefs And Values Are No More Creditable With America’s Founding Than Islamic OnesREASONS FOR ATHEISM
No, I’m Not An Atheist By Faith, Here Are My Arguments. Beyond Agnosticism: More Details About How I Know Various Kinds Of Gods Do Not Exist, Based On Scientific And Philosophical Reasons The Cosmological Argument, The Composition Fallacy, And More Reasons Not To Believe In God Do New Atheists Unjustifiably Shirk Their Burden For Evidence?ERIC STEINHART ON METAPHYSICS
6 Basic Kinds Of Answer To The Question “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?” The Positive Content of Atheism Why Materialism is Unscientific The Simulation Hypothesis The Secret Agreement between Atheists and TheistsAGNOSTICISM, ATHEISM, & THEISM
Disambiguating Faith: How A Lack Of Belief In God May Differ From Various Kinds Of Beliefs That Gods Do Not Exist Distinguishing The Atheist Agnostic, The Theist Gnostic, The Atheist Gnostic, and The Theist Agnostic Agnostics Or Apistics? Disambiguating Faith: The Evidence-Impervious Agnostic Theists Atheists Have Affirmative Positions On The Status Of Evidence And On The Standards Of BeliefFAITH AS LEAP
Disambiguating Faith: Faith Which Exploits Infinitesimal Probabilities As Openings For Strong AffirmationsJUSTIFIED BELIEF VS. FAITH BELIEF
Disambiguating Faith: Not All Beliefs Held Without Certainty Are Faith Beliefs Disambiguating Faith: Defending My Definition Of Faith As “Belief Or Trust Beyond Rational Warrant”FAITH AS CHOICE
Disambiguating Faith: Implicit Faith Disambiguating Faith: Why Faith Is Unethical (Or "In Defense Of The Ethical Obligation To Always Proportion Belief To Evidence") How Faith Is Not Like Other (Revisable) Reflexive Assumptions (6)TRUST VS. FAITH
Disambiguating Faith: Trustworthiness, Loyalty, And Honesty Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Loyally Trusting Those Insufficiently Proven To Be TrustworthyFAITH AS TRADITIONALISM
Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Tradition Disambiguating Faith: Blind Faith: How Faith Traditions Turn Trust Without Warrant Into A Test Of Loyalty Disambiguating Faith: The Threatening Abomination Of The FaithlessUNCERTAIN BELIEFS
Rational Beliefs, Rational Actions, And When It Is Rational To Act On What You Don’t Think Is True Disambiguating Faith: Faith As GuessingBETTER THAN FAITH
Disambiguating Faith: Are True Gut Feelings And Epiphanies Beliefs Justified By Faith? Disambiguating Faith: Faith Is Neither Brainstorming, Hypothesizing, Nor Simply Reasoning Counter-Intuitively Disambiguating Faith: Faith In The Sub-, Pre-, Or Un-consciousFAITH AS RATIONALIZATION
Disambiguating Faith: Faith As A Form Of Rationalization Unique To Religion Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Deliberate Commitment To Rationalization Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Subjectivity Which Claims ObjectivityDOUBT VS. FAITH
Disambiguating Faith: Faith Is Preconditioned By Doubt, But Precludes Serious Doubting Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Tradition’s Advocate And Enforcer, Opposed To Merely Provisional Forms Of Trust Disambiguating Faith By Soul Searching With Clergy GuyCHILDREN'S REASONING
Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Corruption Of Children’s Intellectual JudgmentATHEISM DIFFERS FROM FAITH
Evangelical Atheism? Is Reason My “God” In Whom I Have “Faith?” Is Reason My "God" 2: On Authority, Uncertainty, and Inexplicability Is Reason My "God" 3: What It Means To Be A Rational Being Is Reason My God 4: On Reason As An Authority Answering Accusations Against Atheists: The Charge We Naively Blame All War On Religion Atheist Groupthink?DEISM VS. THEISM
On The Possible God Of Philosophy And Cosmology Vs. The Personal, Historical God Of FaithPOLITICAL VALUES
Some Suspicions About The Superiority Of Liberal Moral Values Philosophical Ethics: Hobbes On The Source Of Authority Philosophical Ethics: Rawls’s Maximin Principle Some More Thoughts On Rawls’s Maximin Principle And Fairness Philosophical Ethics: Can We Uphold A Moral Law And A Principle That We Should Break It? How Christian Beliefs And Values Are No More Creditable With America’s Founding Than Islamic OnesEPISTEMOLOGY
Clarifying The Relationships Between Dogmatism, Skepticism, And Properly Proportioned Belief Evolution and Epistemology If Faith Isn’t Publicly Justifiable, How Can It Provide Justification At All?METAETHICISTS
Philosophical Ethics: On G.E. Moore’s Notion Of Good As An Indefinable Non-Natural Property Philosophical Ethics: From G.E. Moore’s Non-Naturalism To C.L. Stevenson’s Emotivism Philosophical Ethics: A.J. Ayer And The Emotivism Of A Positivist Philosophical Ethics: J.L. Mackie’s Error Theory And Jonathan Harrison’s Critique Thereof Philosophical Ethics: R.M. Hare On Moral Consistency As A Form Of Logical Consistency Philosophical Ethics: Bruce Russell On Theories About What Makes An Action Rational Or Not Philosophical Ethics: Does Calling Someone Evil Explain Anything About Them?KANT
Philosophical Ethics: Kant, The Good Will, And Rational Actions Philosophical Ethics: "But Why MUST I?" Kant’s Ironic Formulation Of Liberty As Duty Philosophical Ethics: A Possible Kantian Formula For Determining The Permissibility Of Self-DefenseMOTIVES
Philosophical Ethics: Whether It’s Worth It To Be Just With No Incentives Or With DisincentivesETHICS OF HOMOSEXUALITY
An Argument For Gay Marriage And Against Traditionalism Judge This: No Gay Kissing On Modern Family? Happy National Coming Out Day 2009! Unreal Discrimination?GAYS AND CHRISTIANITY
Bishop of Church of England Doesn’t “Share Same Faith” As Those Who Accept Homosexuality A Follow Up Post On Gays And Christianity Confronting Conservative Christians With The Consequences Of Their Homophobia Gays and Christianity 3: If God Exists and Is Good, He Cannot Oppose Gay Love Contortions Of Catholic Philosophy: Eve Tushnet Argues Gay Sex Is Not OK But Sex Changes AreDISCRIMINATION
Sexism And Sensitivity On Gary Bauer’s Claims That American Muslims Get Better Treatment Than American ChristiansRELIGION'S VICES
Is God Needed For Us To Care About Starving Kids A World Away? Religion As A Morally and Politically Ambivalent Force Answering Accusations Against Atheists: The Charge That Atheists Have Faith TooSCIENCE VS. FAITH
How Belief In “Theistic Evolution” Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism Defending The Apparent Truth Of Evolution’s Mindlessness The (Jesuit) Father Of The Big Bang Theory In What Sense Religious Scientists Shouldn't Exist What’s Wrong With Religious Scientists? More Thoughts On Scientists In The Public Square When Should A Scientist’s Faith Disqualify Him From Scientific Institutional Authority? On Unjustifiably Leveraging One’s Credibility Against Faith and In Defense of Naturalism and Induction (7)MODERATE RELIGION
Will The Real Atheists Please Stop Kneeling The Value Of Religious Moderates And The Danger Of Isolating Religious And Political Fundamentalists What’s In A Name? On Redefining Belief In God Rather Than Rejecting It Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellecuals 1 Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellectuals 2 Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellectuals 3 Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellectuals 4ANTAGONISTIC ATHEISM
On The Alleged Intolerance Of The New Atheists Towards “Faitheists” In Defense Of Mocking And Embarrassing Religion My Thoughts On Blasphemy Day On The Uses And Abuses Of Religion In Art: The Lines Between Expression, Tolerance, Respect, Fear, and Torture Why Atheists Should Not Give Up Challenging Theism And TheistsBAD BIBLE
Why Progressive Interpretations Of The Old Testament Still Do Not Justify Its God Morally How Genesis Is Not Only Literally False, But Metaphorically False True And False In Adam And Eve The Christian Logic Of Power, Pride, Humility, Free Will, Original Sin, And All-Consuming Divine Narcissism You Are Not A Bible Character You Are Not A Biblical Character 2: Father Freeman’s Reply You Are Not A Bible Character 3: On Believing Without Proof-
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Category Archives: Pop Culture
Daily Hilarity: Wes Anderson’s "Amazing Spider-Man"
February 16, 2010 – 4:27 pmBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Comedy, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Videos | Tagged Owen Wilson, Spider-Man, Wes Anderson | Comments (0)Breast Cancer Awareness
January 10, 2010 – 4:34 pmThis past week on Facebook women have been posting their bra colors (just the colors with no explanation) as a gesture to raise awareness of breast cancer. But the kind of awareness the well-intentioned meme winds up re-raising in breast cancer survivors who’ve undergone mastectomies is a cruelly ironic one: Other cancer survivors joined in, [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Women's Issues | Tagged breast cancer, cancer, Facebook, Facebook Memes, Kayleigh Taylor, Memes, Susan Niebur | Comments (1)Daily Hilarity: Google's Aggressive Attack On The I-Phone
January 8, 2010 – 12:09 amPretty hilarious and completely NSFW unless you have head phones on: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7SzB58qHI0&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Comedy, Culture and Technology, Hilarious, Parody, Satire, Videos | Tagged Google, I-phone, Phones | Comments (0)Daily Hilarity: Infinite Gest Looks Back At 2009
January 7, 2010 – 2:43 pmClick here for a truly hilarious look at social trends and events in 2009. The whole thing is hilarious, here are just a few bits to entice you to read the whole thing: Movie that I loved from 2009 that I’m bound to hate by the end of 2010, thanks to Facebook: The Hangover I [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Comedy, Cutural Criticism, Hilarious | Tagged Facebook, Farmville, Infinite Gest, Kanye West, Mob Wars, Movie Quotes, Taylor Swift, The Hangover | Comments (0)25 Years Of Oprah Screaming Celebrities’ Names
November 23, 2009 – 6:28 pmJudge This: NYC’s Anti-Fattening Drinks Ad Campaign
November 11, 2009 – 9:07 amSaturday on the subway I was enjoying the above poster, as I have numerous times throughout the semester. And in fact, I haven’t just been seeing it on the subways but in my mind whenever I think of sodas now. In fact I’ve had this image in my head since before I saw the ad [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Biology, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Featured, Psychology | Tagged Ads, Health, NYC, Paternalism, Shock Advertising, Soda, Subway Ads | Comments (0)Do You Believe In Satan?
November 10, 2009 – 1:15 amThe theologians at The View weighed in on this question last March… I’d like to ask my Christian readers especially—do you believe in Satan? And if so, what do you think Satan is like exactly? And why do you think what you think? Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Christianity, Religulous, TV, Unintentional Comedy, Videos | Tagged Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Hasselback, Satan, Sherri Shepherd, The View, Whoopi Goldberg | Comments (0)"Holiday Co-options", Or "What Exactly Did We Celebrate Saturday?"
November 2, 2009 – 5:22 pmRichard Wade on the evolution of a holiday: Last night, we celebrated Celtic Harvest, Livestock Slaughter and Passing of the Dead Festival Co-opted to Roman Pagan Harvest, Livestock Slaughter and Passing of he Dead Festival Co-opted to Roman Catholic All Saints Vigil/Feast Co-opted to Capitalist Subconscious Psycho-Sexual Sado-Masochistic Eros-Thanatos Paravestite Fetish Fantasy Catharsis and Candy [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Cutural Criticism | Tagged Halloween, History, Holidays | Comments (0)The "#No God" Twitter Trend FAIL
October 20, 2009 – 1:24 pmThe de-Convert passes along the story of an amusing atheist twitter “victory”: In a classic case of irony, Christians tried to get the statement “No God, No Peace. Know God, Know Peace” to trend today on Twitter. The result of this was the phrase “No God” became the #1 trending topic. Please understand that atheists [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Atheism, Christianity, Culture and Technology, Religion | Tagged FAIL, Irony, Twitter | Comments (0)Daily Hilarity: Dark Knight 60′s Batman Version
October 20, 2009 – 8:00 amBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Comedy, Film, Hilarious, Parody, TV | Tagged 1960s Batman TV Series, Batman, Batman and Robin, Dark Knight, Joker | Comments (0)The Simpsons Take On Creationism
October 14, 2009 – 7:53 pmBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Comedy, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion and Science, TV, Videos | Tagged The Simpsons | Comments (0)Nasty, Brutish, And Short
October 14, 2009 – 11:13 amYeah, this kid will stop being funny soon as he grows up enough to have the slightest modicum of power over anybody or anything. Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in TV, Unintentional Comedy, Videos | Tagged Brats, Children | Comments (0)Breakfast Of Champion Actor Governors
October 9, 2009 – 7:57 pmMarge Simpson On Playboy Cover
October 9, 2009 – 2:20 pmWell this is… unexpected. When I went to bed last night the thought that Barack Obama would win the Nobel Peace Prize and Marge Simpson would be on the cover of Playboy would have never, ever crossed my mind. Maybe the other way around would have even been more plausible. What a goofy world we [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Barack Obama, News, News Discussion, Politics, World Affairs | Tagged Marge Simpson, Nobel Peace Prize, Playboy, The Simpsons | Comments (0)Facebook Monitoring User Moods
October 5, 2009 – 11:26 pmuhhhh…. The company’s data team on Monday launched a trippy new application called the “Gross National Happiness Index.” Taking a similar format to its “Lexicon” trend-tracking product, the “GNH” currently displays a graph of data tabulated over the course of the past few years to track the “happiness” of Facebook users based on words picked up [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Culture and Technology | Tagged Big Brother, Facebook | Comments (0)Daily Hilarity: Strange Doritos Logo
September 30, 2009 – 4:19 pmAnyone who knows me personally knows I’m a world class Dorito fiend. But even I have no idea what this is supposed to mean: Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Unintentional Comedy | Tagged Ads, Creepy Ads, Doritos, Lost In Translation | Comments (0)YouTube As Naturally Evolving The Future Of Television And How Google Benefits Off Of YouTube
September 29, 2009 – 8:05 pmNeat video on how YouTube puts out so much material that we can discover what people actually will choose among a myriad of options and model TV off of it and then on the reach of Google and YouTube’s role in that: Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Culture and Technology, Technology, Videos | Tagged Google, Television, Youtube | Comments (0)The United States Of McDonald's
September 26, 2009 – 11:55 amNowhere in the country are you ever more than 107 miles from one of our ~13,000 McDonald’s restaurants: Stephen von Worley of Weather Sealed explains his map: As expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid. East of the Mississippi, there’s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of meager gaps centered [...]
Katie Couric Presses Glenn Beck To Define The "White Culture" He Alleges Obama Hates
September 26, 2009 – 3:45 amI am simply appalled at the deep cynicism that keeps this rotten reckless, racist, careless, moronic, lying lunatic on the air: Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Barack Obama, Cutural Criticism, Glenn Beck, Politics, Videos | Tagged Glenn Beck on "White Culture", Katie Couric | Comments (0)A Danish Mother Searches For Baby’s Father Via YouTube
September 17, 2009 – 6:21 pmWatch the whole video before reading up on the backstory behind it and the ensuing controversy, which will likely change your perspective of what the issues are through reading the info next to the video on YouTube itself. After you’ve watched and read; Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Kanye Tries To Correct A Philosophical Error
September 17, 2009 – 6:14 pmApparently, Kanye’s been spanning the globe and world history correcting injustices he perceives. Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Philosophy | Tagged John Locke, Kanye, Neil Sinhababu, Philosophy Humor, Political Philosophy, The Ethical Werewolf, Thomas Hobbes | Comments (0)New Disclaimer
September 17, 2009 – 11:33 amI was reading BlagHag yesterday and she came out with a new disclaimer about her website, which I felt really strongly about. So strongly, that I’ve decided to add a comparable one to Camels With Hammers. Please read the disclaimer carefully and let me know Your Thoughts.
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Hilarious, News Discussion, Parody, Satire | Tagged Beyonce, BlagHag, Kanye West, Taylor Swift | Comments (0)Daily Hilarity: Kanye Interrupts Obama
September 14, 2009 – 4:15 pmBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Barack Obama, Hilarious, Parody, Political Satire, Politics, Videos | Tagged Beyonce, Joe Wilson, Kanye West, Taylor Swift | Comments (0)Beyonce, A Class Act
September 14, 2009 – 5:09 amThis was more like it, Beyonce gives Taylor Swift her due: YouTube won’t let me embed it, but I can’t mention Beyonce without including the single most mesmerizingly sexy music video in the universe. It would be against Camels With Hammers law. And for my fuller examination of the class of Beyonce and the [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Culture, Music, Music Videos, Videos | Tagged Beyonce, MTV, Taylor Swift, Video Music Awards, VMAs | Comments (0)Sacrilegious Rendering Of Nirvana In Guitar Hero 5
September 14, 2009 – 4:45 amThis is abominable: In the below video (via Stereogum), watch in horror as the “Guitar Hero” Cobain belts out Flavor Flav ad-libs, Dave Mustaine giggle-rants, Billy Idol come-ons, and Jon Bon Jovi exhortations. You can even make Kurt Cobain sing a motherfucking Bush song. He does it all while dancing like he’s at a Phish show, accompanied [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Arts, Culture, Music, Music Videos, Videos | Tagged "Heart Shaped Box", "Son of a Gun", Billy Idol, Dave Mustaine, Flavor Flav, Grunge, Guitar 5, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 5, Jon Bon Jovi, Kurt Cobain, Megadeth, Nirvana, Pitchfork, Sacrilege, Vaselines | Comments (0)

