RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
August 27, 2012 at 8:32 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2012 at 8:34 pm by Cyberman.)
No it's not. An ad hominem is the fallacy of attacking the person instead of addressing the argument. If someone were to say in response to any argument you might make that you are a stupid or dishonest idiot and therefore your arguments aren't even worth bothering with, ignoring those arguments at the expence of attacking your character, that would be an ad hominen fallacy. Min was simply putting Ehrman's reutation into a more digestible context: he attacked neither the man nor his arguments.
Granted, he did the character of theists desperate enough to defend their stories at all costs and against all reason, but such is the nature of apologetic theism anyway. So no ad homs there either, since no specific theistic arguments entered the discussion.
Granted, he did the character of theists desperate enough to defend their stories at all costs and against all reason, but such is the nature of apologetic theism anyway. So no ad homs there either, since no specific theistic arguments entered the discussion.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
