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Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?

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Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 12:55 pm
And this thread itself is, of course, an example of confirmation bias.
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 1:04 pm
(April 11, 2014 at 12:55 pm)alpha male Wrote: And this thread itself is, of course, an example of confirmation bias.

Do tell.
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 1:38 pm
Atheists also use fallacies, but those tend to go unnoticed by other atheists.
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 1:46 pm
(April 11, 2014 at 1:38 pm)alpha male Wrote: Atheists also use fallacies, but those tend to go unnoticed by other atheists.

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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 1:49 pm
(April 10, 2014 at 3:39 pm)Beccs Wrote: Argument from personal experience is one that pisses me off.

"I had this experience I can't explain so you should believe in my god!"
That's less annoying than "I had this experience that I won't explain..." It leads me to think that the experience is the sort of thing that is either easy to offer alternatives for, and/or points to the person being a loon.
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 7:19 pm
(April 11, 2014 at 1:38 pm)alpha male Wrote: Atheists also use fallacies, but those tend to go unnoticed by other atheists.

Can anyone else taste the rich, creamy irony of the massive Tu Quoque fallacy in this sentence? Dodgy
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Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 7:53 pm
Not sure I want to.
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 7:58 pm
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 9:15 pm (This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 9:15 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(April 10, 2014 at 5:31 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Special Pleading: Asking for a lower standard of evidence for your favorite beliefs than you would apply to anyone else's.

e.g. Pascal's Wager
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 9:24 pm
Here's an example of one I find particularly annoying, albeit I haven't heard it often:
Some guy the other day was trying to argue that because there are people in the world that believe unmarried non-virgins should be killed, that means that being an unmarried non-virgin is wrong.

What fallacy is that anyway? At first I thought argumentum ad populum, but that doesn't seem quite right... Thinking
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