(March 2, 2014 at 11:49 am)Minimalist Wrote: My patience with these people evaporated years ago.
I'm starting to identify more and more.
When I engaged this guy, I thought he'd be a bit more like his avatar, C.S. Lewis. Granted, Lewis' philosophy was thoroughly fallacy-ridden but deconstructing these arguments, finding inconsistencies and fully analyzing the fallacious architecture would have been an interesting discussion for me. This is what I intellectually get off on: analysis and troubleshooting.
I don't know if people have noticed this about me but deconstruction and analysis is something I love doing. I mean, how many skeptics have read the Gospel accounts with a spreadsheet program open noting all the contradictions and inconsistencies. Apologist dude, you want to whine about "context"? I'll send you a copy of the damn spreadsheet to show you I've more that fully analyzed the context. Pull my string and I'm ready to identify and catalog all the fallacies in an apologetic argument.
So when I asked him for a compelling argument for Christianity, I was expecting:
- "Would they die for a lie?"
- "The Moral Argument"
- "The Trilemma"
- "Reliable Eye-Witnesses"
- "You can't assume naturalism"
- Other fallacy ridden philoso-babble.
Sure, all crap but I can break down WHY it's all crap and still have an interesting discussion.
But no, he's refused to engage in any of my response posts on this thread, even when I reply to his arguments about topics such as our supposed assumption of naturalism or the "eye-witness" accounts in the Gospels. He just ignores everything he can't argue against and moves on to the next topic, trying to bait-and-switch.
I'm done. He deserves nothing but Min's righteously contemptuous invitations to fuck off and take his invisible sky-daddy with him.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist