RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
July 25, 2015 at 8:08 pm
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2015 at 8:08 pm by Dystopia.)
(July 25, 2015 at 11:45 am)Randy Carson Wrote:I agree with this - I've been criticized for debunking the source and not the argument by other forum members so I think it's only fair everyone follows that rule - Otherwise it's guilty by association. Richard Wagner was a great composer and also highly anti-semitic, one doesn't invalidate the other. John Lennon was allegedly a wife-beater, but still a great musician. Bill Maher is a great comedian but has a problem with vaccines. I guarantee that I can find something problematic about whoever you're quoting to support your point.(July 25, 2015 at 11:39 am)Cato Wrote: You must be joking.
Nope.
Your posts are classic ad hominem attacks. You think that by going after the man, you can undermine his arguments - but that's not how it works, is it?
Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest chess players of all time. He was also an anti-Semitic nut-job later in life.
I can study his games while ignoring his rants against the Jews.
You can study Sungenis' books on the Eucharist, sola scriptura and sola fide while ignoring his views on the holocaust.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you