RE: Predjudice in School towards atheists
March 25, 2012 at 5:55 am
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2012 at 6:01 am by Phil.)
(March 25, 2012 at 5:46 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: If I call you a satan worshipper for not believing in God. Would you not defend yourself from such misrepresentations.
Probably I wouldn't for the very reason in my signature that I will post here for brevity Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider, whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone; but if they argue without reason, (which, in order to be consistent with themselves, they must do,) they are out of the reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument. and in the thread I made with the title Stupidism. Then again, depending on who made the misrepresentation, I might but that would be neither an apologetic nor a defense of atheism. It would be a correction of their definition.
edit: An apologetic is a defense
Definition of APOLOGETICS
: systematic argumentative discourse in defense (as of a doctrine)
