(February 22, 2015 at 12:53 am)TRJF Wrote: Wiggy (and a lot of others) love to go point by refuted point, galloping through everything that's been brought up a million times.
I feel bad for such people; it takes them a ton of posts to get all of their tired arguments out there. They must get carpal tunnel syndrome at an alarming rate.
So I propose we do them a favor, to show that we heathens can be altruistic too. I wonder if we can come up with a single word that could just, in itself, encapsulate all of these arguments (arguments like "there had to be a creator, so many people believe in Jesus that he must be real and magical, Christian prophecy comes true and other religions' doesn't, and so on)
Does anyone know one simple word that could cover those arguments together?
TL;DR: "Bullshit!"
I like where your head is. The shitty part is that we'd have to attach what you've just wrote as an explanation for whatever that word may be. At least this way you get to sharpen the tools in your adjective drawer and conjur more creative ways to burst the intellectual bubbles of full grown children. It's a right of passage for some. I was a Christian once and I remember suffering similar disappointments when my brilliant apologetic arguments were not received with the brilliant white flag I always expected to see in response. For many Of these people, their entire education of the workings of the world has been funneled into their mind through a filter that prevented "damaging" modern knowledge from entering. Religious colleges present those ancient arguments from Aquinas and Anslem as if they've stood the test of time. So, when one of those students gets an account here, they're under the impression that they've been equipped with the logical sword of God only to be completely oblivious when that "sword" is smashed into splinters and continuously driven into their every pore. I don't have a single word for this process, per se, but I do have a phrase...
"Here comes another one..."
