RE: Heaven seems awful 2 me-"Theist laughs at loudly & with great cruelty"
May 14, 2016 at 2:39 pm
Majority argument fails when trying to appeal to it as if the majority means it is correct.
Pointing out that lots of people do a thing in and of itself, if factual, is not the same thing at all.
Most people believe in gods, therefore gods must be real = logical fallacy
Many Christians believe that slavery is ok, and still practice it = just a fact
Or let's use a different example.
The world is round because most people believe it is round = logical fallacy (it is round, but that is not a sound argument as the why)
Most humans now believe in a round earth = a perfectly sound statement that can be backed up with statistics.
See the difference?
Pointing out that lots of people do a thing in and of itself, if factual, is not the same thing at all.
Most people believe in gods, therefore gods must be real = logical fallacy
Many Christians believe that slavery is ok, and still practice it = just a fact
Or let's use a different example.
The world is round because most people believe it is round = logical fallacy (it is round, but that is not a sound argument as the why)
Most humans now believe in a round earth = a perfectly sound statement that can be backed up with statistics.
See the difference?
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
