Quote:Your fondness for straw man attacks is impressive - and tiring.You're fondness of incorrectly labeling my arguments as said scare-crows is also a little frustrating. I am only trying to make one little point, about how it is a logical fallacy that one concept of god is flawed, and so there must be no god. I mean that is without a doubt a clear case of logical fallacy. I am not saying that you yourself hold this view, but that it exists, and it is dysfunctional. I am not arguing that there is or is not a god, and especially not over myself being right or wrong. It would be a straw man if I was talking about anything other that the very argument I am forwarding in connection.
A world in which everyone gets the ability to have at least one idea of a possible deity is not simplistic, in fact it is likely a little over-the-top. I am trying to show that to be a proper atheist (one that is thorough) you would have to disprove all of the gods. Or at least disprove a couple more than just Yahweh. But there are people that say 'the bible made me an atheist', in fact there was a thread with that very name a while ago. I just feel like pointing out that there is a fallacy in that. That either the Christians are wrong, or they are right. But it is disingenuous to purport that they are right about god, but wrong in total. That is the statement being forwarded in the fallacy of the 'bible made me an atheist' idea. That Christians are somehow right and wrong at the same time.
Flat earth has nothing to do with my argument, I just distracted you with the whole 6,000,000,000 ideas thing. I have nothing to say about mass appeal, about human flaws. I am only trying to make one little point. I think there is a fallacy in the 'bible made me an atheist' camp, what do you think?
Certainly nothing that I have read here has disproven or even touched my conceptualization of god. You point out 'god of the gaps', and I point out that not all theism includes that fallacy. Certainly mine does not. I have read most of Dawkins, probably more than some of you. I just wasn't as easily convinced. He's more than a little fallacious himself. That's part of the point I am making. We both think the bible is not the word of god. But where we take that conclusion is very interesting in it's difference.
I never want to say the word fallacy again...
mmmm phallus.
