RE: Which error is this?
March 3, 2022 at 4:12 am
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2022 at 4:13 am by Fake Messiah.)
And what about this fallacy:
X: "Jesus really existed because we know the exact date and place of his birth and the exact date and place of his death."
Y: "No, we don't know the exact dates, not even the exact years and also not places because they contradict each other in the gospels."
X: "Doesn't matter. Jesus existed nevertheless."
Is this Moving the goalposts fallacy?
X: "Jesus really existed because we know the exact date and place of his birth and the exact date and place of his death."
Y: "No, we don't know the exact dates, not even the exact years and also not places because they contradict each other in the gospels."
X: "Doesn't matter. Jesus existed nevertheless."
Is this Moving the goalposts fallacy?
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"
