RE: "Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham
July 13, 2018 at 11:59 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2018 at 12:34 pm by RoadRunner79.)
(July 13, 2018 at 11:09 am)Astreja Wrote:(July 13, 2018 at 9:35 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: No; If you mean that I think that homosexual activity is a sin and immoral. I don't think that disagreement or thinking that something is wrong, means that you are intolerant. When you loosen the definition that much, then you are a bigot as well.
I think it's poor polemics to stretch the definition of emotionally charged words, and then go on to equivocating them afterwards.
*TWEET* 10-yard penalty for tu quoque fallacy on the field.
If you think that someone is immoral, RR, then whether it's opinion or bigotry is irrelevant. Both are red flags useful for identifying hostile people so that they can be weeded out of one's circle of acquaintances.
I’m not arguing a tu torque fallacy. That would be saying that it is right, because you do it too. This is more argumentum ad absudum, that if you weaken the definition so that everyone is a bigot, then it is basically meaningless.
Unless you are saying it is wrong for anyone to tell another that they are wrong. Which is a logically suicidal arguement.
Edit to add: I wouldn’t be so hostile as to say that I wouldn’t or couldn’t be acquaintances with someone who is homosexual. That to me, seems more like intolerance.
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If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther