RE: Ten Reasons I'm Not a Christian
January 13, 2012 at 6:42 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2012 at 8:10 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(January 13, 2012 at 2:31 pm)organiccornflake Wrote: WBBC has twisted the words of scripture to meet their agenda.
NO they have NOT.Read Leviticus and Judges. Also familiarise yourself with ALL of the commandments; there are 613,not 10. (collectively called 'mitzvot')
Quote:How wrong of you to stereotype all of Christianity because of the actions of a few!
Nobody is doing that sonny. What we are saying is loopy old Fred and his spawns are true Christians,NOT that they represent all Christians.Clearly they do not.However,they ARE at the extreme edge of the the Christian spectrum.Not all that further down the track from say Sarah Palin, that Santorin arsehole and the lunar literalists.
The argument you have been using is based on a common logical fallacy,called 'no true Scotsman'.
Quote:I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians; your Christians are so unlike your Christ.( Mahatma Gandhi)
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Quote:No true Scotsman is an informal logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion.[1] When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Quote:The 613 commandments (Hebrew: תרי"ג מצוות: taryag mitzvot, "613 Mitzvot"; Biblical Hebrew: Miṣwoth) is a numbering of the statements and principles of law, ethics, and spiritual practice contained in the Torah or Five Books of Moses. The numbering was first made by Rabbi Simlai in Talmud Makkot 23b.
These principles of Biblical law are sometimes called connections or commandments (mitzvot) and referred to collectively as the "Law of Moses" (Torat Moshe, תורת משה), "Mosaic Law", or simply "the Law". The word mitzvot is plural; singular is mitzvah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_Mitzvot