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Dr. King, Argument from Authority
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RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority
(January 20, 2015 at 10:47 am)ChadWooters Wrote: My point was you must take the good with the bad. When some atheists rant about the evils tangentially related to Christianity, somehow forget to mention any of the goods specifically mandated by my religion like care for poor, widows, orphans, and the sick.

Maybe we would mention these goods if you guys took some time out of your busy schedule of self-righteousness and actually acted according to those mandates. Certainly, in the United States, Christianity fights hard against those mandates. They call it "mooching" and "entitlements", and demonize those in need. They fight for the 'life of the unborn' but think it's evil socialism to help make sure they're fed and sheltered once they're no longer unborn. They fight for the rich. They fight tooth and nail to make sure that the sick have access to healthcare only if they can afford it.


Considering the mindset and behavior of Christianity throughout most of its existence, Dr. King was either a Christian who is most famous for his very un-Christian works, or a Christian very much unlike most: he actually cared about the good parts. And here you are, trying to take credit for a man's accomplishments in the name of your religion, which is all by itself really fucked up and very ignorant of history, not so much because he's an example of Christianity's good, but as you just implied, because you think this one example excuses 2,000 years of overwhelmingly bad.
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Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Neo-Scholastic - January 19, 2015 at 10:37 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Silver - January 19, 2015 at 10:39 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Drich - January 19, 2015 at 11:01 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Silver - January 19, 2015 at 11:02 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Davka - January 20, 2015 at 11:56 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Chas - January 19, 2015 at 11:05 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Jenny A - January 19, 2015 at 10:57 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Chas - January 19, 2015 at 11:00 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Ryantology - January 19, 2015 at 11:18 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by dyresand - January 19, 2015 at 11:20 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Esquilax - January 20, 2015 at 1:13 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Minimalist - January 19, 2015 at 11:24 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by dyresand - January 19, 2015 at 11:32 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Surgenator - January 19, 2015 at 11:47 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by vorlon13 - January 19, 2015 at 11:57 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Roxy904 - January 19, 2015 at 11:58 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by dyresand - January 20, 2015 at 12:06 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Alex K - January 20, 2015 at 3:21 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Neo-Scholastic - January 20, 2015 at 10:47 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Esquilax - January 20, 2015 at 11:13 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Neo-Scholastic - January 20, 2015 at 11:41 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by KevinM1 - January 20, 2015 at 11:49 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Esquilax - January 21, 2015 at 12:38 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by dyresand - January 21, 2015 at 9:58 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Ryantology - January 21, 2015 at 11:18 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by abaris - January 20, 2015 at 11:07 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Thumpalumpacus - January 20, 2015 at 11:42 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by FatAndFaithless - January 20, 2015 at 11:54 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by vorlon13 - January 20, 2015 at 12:13 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by robvalue - January 20, 2015 at 12:00 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by robvalue - January 20, 2015 at 12:19 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Spooky - January 20, 2015 at 12:27 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by vorlon13 - January 20, 2015 at 2:21 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Crossless1 - January 20, 2015 at 12:41 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by robvalue - January 21, 2015 at 11:39 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by dyresand - January 21, 2015 at 11:57 am
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Esquilax - January 21, 2015 at 12:08 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by dyresand - January 21, 2015 at 12:16 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Neo-Scholastic - January 21, 2015 at 1:45 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Crossless1 - January 21, 2015 at 1:48 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Thumpalumpacus - January 21, 2015 at 2:42 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Esquilax - January 21, 2015 at 8:35 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Roxy904 - January 21, 2015 at 8:52 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Faith No More - January 21, 2015 at 12:22 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by Ryantology - January 21, 2015 at 10:22 pm
RE: Dr. King, Argument from Authority - by robvalue - January 22, 2015 at 5:46 am

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