(September 6, 2021 at 7:35 am)Ten Wrote: brewer also posted an example of this same thing in the stupid stuff religious people say thread(in fact, it made me remember my trouble defining what this is).
(September 6, 2021 at 6:55 am)brewer Wrote: Person lives: God was watching over them, it's a miracle.
Person dies: God called them home for a reason.
So, what is this called? Help a guy out. Is it circular reasoning? Is it confirmation bias?
Confirmation bias.
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"
