RE: Critical thought is hard
April 6, 2015 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2015 at 12:51 pm by downbeatplumb.
Edit Reason: added a d to believed so it became english.
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(April 6, 2015 at 11:46 am)Alex K Wrote:(April 6, 2015 at 11:39 am)Faith No More Wrote: I guess if you truly want to refine your thinking skills and ability to debate religion, ask some specific questions. What parts of the movie did you feel inadequate to address? From what I gather from the trailer, the movie was just littered with fallacies and misrepresentations, so just bring up whatever issues you see and others can help you.
I really have to watch it some time. From what I've heard, the arguments which they let the atheist professor make are not all that bad, but they simply let the Christian guy counter them with completely silly emotional arguments which actually don't refute them, and then declare victory. The atheists in the movie are all strawmen who are bad people and/or simply angry at God, but secretly believe. In other words, they are written to nicely confirm all the prejudices of the evangelical moron in the audience.
Wasn't the knock out argument that the professor actually hated god so believed in god. (inferring that all atheists actually really believe but hate god).
A silly vaccuus argument that plays to their prejudices.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
