RE: Fallacies & Strategies
May 28, 2022 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2022 at 3:05 pm by Fake Messiah.)
The only way usually is to label it as a fallacy because fallacies are usually used to derail the conversation from the subject to something else, and that else is usually the speaker. Like in the case of the Ad Hominem fallacy, it is used to quickly derail the conversation from the subject to the speaker personally.
And from my observations, one of the most common subjects that is usually very hard to have a conversation about without theists immediately bombarding it with fallacies is the historicity of Jesus. You immediately get fallacies like "You have a grudge against Christianity therefore you claim Jesus did not exist."
So I usually say, "No this is not going to be a conversation about me, so if you don't have anything to say about the topic of discussion stay quiet."
And from my observations, one of the most common subjects that is usually very hard to have a conversation about without theists immediately bombarding it with fallacies is the historicity of Jesus. You immediately get fallacies like "You have a grudge against Christianity therefore you claim Jesus did not exist."
So I usually say, "No this is not going to be a conversation about me, so if you don't have anything to say about the topic of discussion stay quiet."
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"
