RE: The moral argument, for atheism!
July 1, 2018 at 10:03 am
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2018 at 11:01 am by LadyForCamus.)
(July 1, 2018 at 9:37 am)MysticKnight Wrote:(July 1, 2018 at 9:16 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: This wasn’t a rhetorical question, MK. And, the fact that you chose not to answer it leads me to suspect that perhaps you’re more self-aware of the fatal flaw in your argument than you’ve lead us to believe up to this point.
“Quran is true because Quran says so” And - “Quran is true because when I read it in a special way, its magic tells me how true it is.”
— are exactly the same statement. In the latter, you’re simply adding another unsupported assertion; “cuz the book is magical”, as a placeholder for the external evidence that you don’t have. You are still attempting to use the book to prove the truth of the book, which unfortunately for your argument, is still question begging. “Cuz magic”, is not an escape hatch, and it doesn’t get you out of your fallacy.
But, I have a funny feeling you know that already.
They are not the same statement if you understand the nature of miracles and reasoning to attest to them.
For all meaningful purposes they are exactly the same. Not only do you not have external evidence for the truth of the Quran, you don’t have any evidence that the book is magic. The only difference between the two statements, is that the second one has an additional unsupported assertion (‘the book is magic’) on top of the one you’ve already made (‘the book is true’). So, tell me, what evidence do you have that the Quran is magic? Remember; if you reference the Quran in your answer you’re begging the question. 😉
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Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.