RE: Poor uneducated unintelligent aheists
May 20, 2011 at 10:51 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2011 at 1:23 am by popeyespappy.)
(May 19, 2011 at 6:05 am)tackattack Wrote: How exactly is it cherry picking to look at all of the passages as a whole rather than taking one or two verses out of context. I think my example is still valid and has yet to be addressed. I'll enumerate it clearly here. Example of cherry picking, literal interpretation with no reading comprehansion (What I feel you both are doing):
First of all, I never claimed I wasn’t cherry picking. You’re the one who did that. Right after you expressed your contempt for cherry picking Christians. I’m simply pointing out that that you are looking at the Bible through rose colored glasses. You have cherry picked a goody two shoes version of your holy books that is at odds with the original intent of their authors.
“Cherry picking, suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position. It is a kind of fallacy of selective attention, the most common example of which is the confirmation bias. Cherry picking may be committed unintentionally.”
You are guilty of the bolded part.
Quote:1)Did you say "you should kill your rebellious children" in your previous post?
2)Was it your intent to ask me to kill my children?
If this is directed at me, as opposed to the Bible, yes I wrote those words in my previous post. However I was merely repeating the words of your god as recorded in your holy book. According to your book, it was his intent that you kill your rebellious children if they behaved in a proscribed manner.
The reality is that I don’t believe anything in the Bible has anything to do with god. I believe the reason those words are there is because it was the intent of the authors to give parents the ability to kill their children without fear of reprisal from civil authority.
BTW, where did you learn to spell comprehension?
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