(September 8, 2021 at 7:37 am)Spongebob Wrote:(September 8, 2021 at 12:09 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: What you are actually doing is known as False equivalence logical fallacy.
I still think it's a gigantic strawman argument. I can understand the intension but the arguments against peanut butter are incredibly lame and don't represent the arguments opposing the existence of god. I'm guessing he worked for hours to come up with that lame ass peanut butter nonsense and it is embarrassingly silly.
False equivalence is a logical fallacy in which equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning, and he compares peanut butter with God by holding peanut butter responsible that a baby died and suffered in the fire, but peanut butter doesn’t have the power to save anyone from a fire as the supposed omnipotent good God does.
The strawman is that he claims how atheists use the argument from evil to debunk God’s existence, but that is not true. That argument is "only" used to debunk the goodness of God and maybe even his omnipotence, but not necessarily the existence of God himself because there is no settled definition of what God is or what his attributes are.
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"