(May 20, 2015 at 4:03 am)nicanica123 Wrote:(May 20, 2015 at 2:10 am)robvalue Wrote: I call him a con man because he is aware and intelligent enough to know exactly what the fallacies are in his arguments, but he uses them regardless. He is unashamedly dishonest, when he said he'd believe in Christianity even if it was proven to be false by actually witnessing the so called events.
George Carlin once said, "what if there were no hypothetical questions"
WLC holds the position from his so called, "inner witness." But he also believes that facts and reason back it up. This is a favorite question for skeptics to ask him and I think his answer now is not what should he do but what ought he to do. I just don't think he has publicly ever said that if he went back in time and watched easter roll around with no resurrected jesus he would still believe. I believe that was a conversation that someone related. But even then, Its a hypothetical question with kind of ridiculous premise. It like if someone asked me if I took a time machine and saw that my late mother was not my real mom and asked if I still loved her like a mother. I would
(May 20, 2015 at 2:23 am)paulpablo Wrote: For example sexism, I'd say[...] women are inferior to men, and what could be a rational argument[...] of sexism is that[...] there's a vast spectrum of men[...] with strengthsI wouldn't agree with that at all!
Seriously though, my point of this thread was to get a general feel for how most on this forum felt about this stuff when its applied to yourself. I am happy to hear most validate OP. I get that religious people are the main perpetrators as well
You wouldn't agree with what at all?
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.