(June 26, 2015 at 12:35 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 26, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: DO ATHEISTS CONDONE RAPE?
"If I could wave a magic wand and get rid of either rape or religion, I would not hesitate to get rid of religion."
Atheist Sam Harris, Interview at The Sun: The Temple of Reason
What's that supposed to be? Tu quoque argument?
For the record, one despicable person farting out of his mouth doesn't make another despicable person doing the same look any better.
But in the case of the bible we're not talking about an individual. We're talking about a so called holy book including a manual for the aspiring rapist.
It is supposed to be a tu quoque argument, which is fallacious, but it even fails at that. Sam Harris in the quote does not say rape is okay. The quote indicates that religion is worse than rape, not that rape is okay.
So we have a double failure on Randy's part. See how efficient he is? He can be wrong in more than one way with very few words.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
