Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps

[Randy Carson]

You're speaking of YOUR position. Great. In a one-on-one conversation, I would tailor my remarks to what you believe just as I would when speaking of infant baptism with a Baptist or a Methodist (since they come down on different sides of that doctrinal dispute).

I posted the OP because a few members of this forum ROUTINELY cite the GotG objection to virtually anything I post.

If this is not you, then you can ignore this thread.

The GotG objection is valid so long as you practice it, and it doesn't matter what the position is of the person objecting to it.

The name of that fallacy is tu quoque.  You need to stop practicing that one, too.

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Thank you, Parkers. I'm familiar with the tu quoque.

Also, if someone objects based on their own position, perhaps you should give thought to not treating all atheists as a lump of people who march in lockstep? Because when you post in broad generalities, that is what you're doing, just as when an atheist posts shit like "Xians r teh stoopidz!!1!"

Are atheists in this forum just as stooopid when they lump me in with the fundamentalists idiots they have known in the past?

I see glimmers of real intelligence behind some of your posts. Maybe if you took that chip off your shoulder and dialed your anger way, way down, you and I could have a decent conversation?