RE: Four questions for Christians
June 28, 2013 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2013 at 8:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 28, 2013 at 6:16 pm)Consilius Wrote: Can't find them. I guess this ends our wonderfully productive conversation.
Am I to conclude that you managed to miss the content of the majority of my posts in this thread -while quoting them- after having claimed to have gone back and reread them....twice? What happened then? Did you simply quote my posts as an opportunity to reassert your position, rather than addressing the criticism of that position that was contained within?
TQ, appeal to hypocrisy. The inequity of one does not excuse the inequity of another. Two wrongs don't make a right. It's a form of ad hom whereby you attempt to discredit a position (usually a derogatory one about whatever you're presenting) by stating that the other people "were bad people too" or "did it first"
-It does not matter. Imagine the worst about the egyptians, none of what you're imagining will excuse the character in the narrative for massacring children. Further, no, it does not matter how many lollipops you imagine the character to have given the children -after it was done massacring them. They will simply be massacred children holding lollipops. It does not matter what any given despot, dunce, or midget thinks is fair or expects from his laws - many despots, dunces, and midgets can expect incoherent things. You have not presented a -single- coherent defense of this narrative and it;s implications for the moral status of your god. Not one. 14 pages of absolute garbage ad nausing it the entire way, and to top it off you thought that maybe this sort of head in sand bullshit might help? No dice.
This is just my second post in this thread.....in which I elaborated upon the contents of my first
(my first explaining that such a defense was unsound..and that the entire narrative could be written off to do away with any issues by the same grounds that it was unsound). But please, do tell me what's "not in there". What you "couldn't find". Post 55.
Same goes for you Frodo.
(June 23, 2013 at 12:26 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Thoughtcrime immediately followed up by the same appeal to hypocrisy. It's as useless now as it was the last time.
Quote:Hardly. I don't want to hear any quibbling about "valid statements" as you defend a logical fallacy, understand? A TQ is a form of ad hom, and in my experience on these boards accounts for the vast majority of people's defenses of any given fairy tale. It wouldn't matter if the group in question -had- attempted to do the same to you. The sins or inequity of another does not excuse one's own, in the more common usage "two wrongs don't make a right".
Should I continue to expose not only the vapid nature of your argument but the dishonest manner in which you've chosen to argue? Or is it remotely possible that we might move past this point, and come up with a competent fucking defense of the narrative or the faith?
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