RE: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
August 7, 2017 at 9:27 am
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2017 at 9:30 am by Harry Nevis.)
(August 4, 2017 at 4:54 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 4, 2017 at 4:19 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Neo came to us as some sort of flaky swedenborgian and has somehow transformed into a putatively fundamental catholic....
Are you saying that it is acceptable to gradually (or suddenly) loose one's faith but unacceptable to grow in it?
If you call burying your head deeper in the sand as unacceptable, then, yes.
(August 4, 2017 at 10:53 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(August 4, 2017 at 7:44 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: Fixed that for you.
Chad, what you (and most of the other faithers who come here) just don't get is that we don't give a shit about your religious arguments. If we're arguing them at all, for the most part it's out of boredom, wanting to play whack-a-mole, whatever... Most of of come from religious households, grew up in religious communities and quite likely still live in religious communities. The arguments and evidence were unconvincing then and remain unconvincing now, especially considering they haven't changed.
Then don't blame us if boredom, apathy, or whatever you want to call that makes many use bad and lazy arguements, lead to a poor conclusions about your intelligence.
Constantly declaring how smart one is, while avoiding discussion or using ad arguments doesn't help much either. I go by what I see.
Well, if believers didn't use bad and lazy argument that lead to poor conclusions, they probably wouldn't be here.
(August 4, 2017 at 10:53 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(August 4, 2017 at 7:44 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: Fixed that for you.
Chad, what you (and most of the other faithers who come here) just don't get is that we don't give a shit about your religious arguments. If we're arguing them at all, for the most part it's out of boredom, wanting to play whack-a-mole, whatever... Most of of come from religious households, grew up in religious communities and quite likely still live in religious communities. The arguments and evidence were unconvincing then and remain unconvincing now, especially considering they haven't changed.
Then don't blame us if boredom, apathy, or whatever you want to call that makes many use bad and lazy arguements, lead to a poor conclusions about your intelligence.
Constantly declaring how smart one is, while avoiding discussion or using ad arguments doesn't help much either. I go by what I see.
Where has someone bragged about how smart they were?
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
