RE: How does your WV inform your politics?
August 31, 2023 at 10:52 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2023 at 10:52 am by FrustratedFool.)
(August 31, 2023 at 10:16 am)LinuxGal Wrote:(August 31, 2023 at 10:08 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: So you think believing their is a link between Islamic/Christian dogma and Muslim/Christian behaviour is an example of the slippery slope fallacy?
So it's fallacious to think that because the Quran commands something Muslims are likely to do X, in your opinion?
The Tanakh prescribes the death penalty for breaking Shabbat, but we don't see a lot of stonings for that in Israel these days.
Ad Extirpanda prescribes torture for getting suspects to reveal the names of other heretics but the Catholic Church hasn't done a lot of that lately.
Sure. But there's plenty of Jews and Muslims who circumcise their boys. Is that not because of the influence of their religion? And a million other acts.
Again, I ask, is it fallacious to think that because the Quran/Bible/Torah etc commands X Muslims/ Christians/ Jews etc are more likely to do X?
Is there no reasonable link between the dogmas of a religion and the acts of its adherents?
I find it hard to accept that as fallacious thinking.
We could apply that to any ideology. No link between Nazism and the holocaust? And so on. Doesn't seem a fallacy. But I'm no professor of logic.