RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 10:22 am
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 10:25 am by John V.)
(April 11, 2014 at 10:14 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I would still argue confirmation bias, on the grounds that obtuse interpretations of scripture are usually done to justify what the reader believed before reading the scripture. The interpretations "when it says... it really means..." are retrofitted to work backward to the desired conclusion.No, a stretched interpretation of a problematic passage is special pleading. Confirmation bias would be to ignore the problematic passage, and only cite confirming passages.
ETA: And I'd say you're doing exactly what you speak of here - retrofitting confirmation bias backward to your desired conclusion.
