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RE: How Irrational People Think
January 11, 2015 at 5:01 pm
(January 11, 2015 at 4:27 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: (January 11, 2015 at 4:00 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Everything needs a cause.Oh except the thing they believe is the cause, that is an exception just coz.
No one has ever seriously made that argument. The true formulation is that 'nothing that comes into being does so apart from some cause. There are some interesting arguments against this premise, but your strawman is not one of them.
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RE: How Irrational People Think
January 11, 2015 at 5:10 pm
Jesus Christ said remarriage following divorce is adultery
I am divorced and remarried and accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior 100%, but I'm still banging wifey #2
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RE: How Irrational People Think
January 11, 2015 at 5:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2015 at 5:33 pm by Mystic.)
Book being of a unique style implies it's divine.
The book is of unique style.
Therefore it is divine.
Valid argument, but premise 1 is highly doubtful and is solely based due to the book stating it otherwise no one would ever think such a thing.
This is what that Islamic miracle comes down to.
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RE: How Irrational People Think
January 11, 2015 at 7:49 pm
My feelings about *fill in your fairy tale* are strong.
The stronger the feeling, the more real the object of the feeling.
Therefore, *fill in your fairy tale* must definitely be real.
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RE: How Irrational People Think
January 11, 2015 at 7:56 pm
Malachi 2:16 "For I hate divorce,” says the Lord . . .
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RE: How Irrational People Think
January 11, 2015 at 8:01 pm
There are 2.3 (or however many) billion Christians in the world.
2.3 billion people couldn't be wrong.
Therefore, the other 5.2 billion people in the world are wrong.
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RE: How Irrational People Think
January 11, 2015 at 8:05 pm
(January 11, 2015 at 3:14 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: 1. There are seashells found on mountains.
2. There is a book that mentions a worldwide flood.
3. Therefore, the book is reliable and true.
What else? Keep it a syllogism.
Death is the consequence of sin.
Jesus died having committed no sin.
... oh, bugger.
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RE: How Irrational People Think
January 11, 2015 at 8:08 pm
1. Religious belief is what makes people moral.
2. X has no religious belief.
3. X is therefore immoral.
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RE: How Irrational People Think
January 11, 2015 at 11:34 pm
Some new scientific evidence has come forward that doesn't agree with my book... The evidence must be wrong, not my book.
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RE: How Irrational People Think
January 12, 2015 at 1:19 am
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