(November 30, 2019 at 10:57 am)Klorophyll Wrote:(November 30, 2019 at 10:42 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: It is you who is ignoring what they said and instead of, let's say, quoting them, you talk about them personally which is why it is called Ad hominem fallacy. Needless to say that kind of approach won't impress anyone here.
I did quote them, you can find the references by spending five seconds typing the right keywords in Google search.
And if you think the statement "Dawkins didn't read the Qur'an" is ad hominem, you're kindly asked to review your definition of the fallacy.
Again, that's no argument "He didn't read the Koran" but avoiding his actual claims that he said about Islam and because, I'm assuming, you can't handle them.
A lot of people didn't read "Mein Kampf" but can make true criticism about Nazism and Fascism.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"