(August 4, 2019 at 3:30 am)Belaqua Wrote: He calls them some names because he has found so many errors in their books. But an insult is not an ad hominem attack. An ad hominem attack would be something like: this person is a Christian therefore he can't think straight.
If you point out a couple of dozen errors and then say that the person makes a lot of errors, that's not an ad hominem.
Did you look at the Wikipedia page?
You clearly can't understand that his dismissal of Dawkins is because "he is a biologist" and not what he writes, is ad hominem fallacy. Just like you are not able check all the lies he wrote about Hitchens book.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"