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Argument from "You did it wrong"
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RE: Argument from "You did it wrong"
Looks like a protracted version of a "No True Scotsman" fallacy, possibly a less intellectual "Courtier's Reply." Some versions try to cut to the chase and ask "did you know the Lord?" and claiming that a Christian is, by definition, "one who knows the Lord." The OED and Merriam-Webster show no such definition in their words. Even the American Heritage Dictionary, which was created specifically as a conservative alternative to Webster's Third's permissiveness, fails to include such a definition. Not even Samuel Johnson's dictionary uses such a definition (and that was written at a time when Christianity was more or less taken for granted in English-speaking lands). If there is a proper dictionary that defines a Christian as "One who knows the Lord" (not a glossary, not Christian reference books/propaganda, but a proper dictionary of the English language), prove me wrong.

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Argument from "You did it wrong" - by zipperpull - May 21, 2018 at 2:28 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by Joods - May 21, 2018 at 2:31 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by brewer - May 21, 2018 at 2:44 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by vorlon13 - May 21, 2018 at 2:53 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by Chad32 - May 21, 2018 at 5:15 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by Magilla - May 21, 2018 at 9:56 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by Amarok - May 21, 2018 at 10:18 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by Rev. Rye - May 21, 2018 at 10:33 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by Cecelia - May 21, 2018 at 10:35 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by vorlon13 - May 21, 2018 at 11:34 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by zipperpull - May 21, 2018 at 11:37 pm
RE: Argument from "You did it wrong" - by Simon Moon - May 23, 2018 at 4:04 pm

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