(March 23, 2015 at 8:16 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:Sounds like an appropriate moment to quote Peter Medawar:(March 20, 2015 at 4:31 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Executive Summary:
"You have unjustified beliefs, too. Do so! Do so! So we're even."
See also Ad Hominem Tu Quoque.
I mean, I've seen plenty of tu quoque's and ad homs before, but nothing that convoluted, rambling, opaque, and substanceless. It's like every sentence is crafted with the utmost care to hide the point he's trying to make instead of illustrate it.
"In all territories of thought which science or philosophy can lay claim to, including those upon which literature has also a proper claim, no one who has something original or important to say will willingly run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief."
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza