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Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 9:42 pm
(April 11, 2014 at 1:38 pm)alpha male Wrote: Atheists also use fallacies, but those tend to go unnoticed by other atheists.

Theists also use fallacies, but those tend to go unnoticed by other theists.

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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 9:42 pm
(April 11, 2014 at 9:24 pm)Sedna Wrote: Here's an example of one I find particularly annoying, albeit I haven't heard it often:
Some guy the other day was trying to argue that because there are people in the world that believe unmarried non-virgins should be killed, that means that being an unmarried non-virgin is wrong.

What fallacy is that anyway? At first I thought argumentum ad populum, but that doesn't seem quite right... Thinking

Ask him why should we care about what people who want to kill non virgins think.
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Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 9:44 pm (This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 9:45 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(April 11, 2014 at 9:24 pm)Sedna Wrote: Here's an example of one I find particularly annoying, albeit I haven't heard it often:
Some guy the other day was trying to argue that because there are people in the world that believe unmarried non-virgins should be killed, that means that being an unmarried non-virgin is wrong.

What fallacy is that anyway? At first I thought argumentum ad populum, but that doesn't seem quite right... Thinking

Ad populum, (aka appeal to consensus or the bandwagon fallacy), appeal to authority (loosely), genetic fallacy, and ad-hoc reasoning.
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 10:11 pm
(April 11, 2014 at 9:42 pm)tor Wrote: Ask him why should we care about what people who want to kill non virgins think.
Well, I have no idea who he is. He was just some random asshole at the library going around trying to convince all the girls there to be virgins. He didn't use that one on me anyway- I overheard him talking to another girl.

(April 11, 2014 at 9:44 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Ad populum, (aka appeal to consensus or the bandwagon fallacy), appeal to authority (loosely), genetic fallacy, and ad-hoc reasoning.
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 10:13 pm
(April 11, 2014 at 10:11 pm)Sedna Wrote:
(April 11, 2014 at 9:42 pm)tor Wrote: Ask him why should we care about what people who want to kill non virgins think.
Well, I have no idea who he is. He was just some random asshole at the library going around trying to convince all the girls there to be virgins. He didn't use that one on me anyway- I overheard him talking to another girl.

(April 11, 2014 at 9:44 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Ad populum, (aka appeal to consensus or the bandwagon fallacy), appeal to authority (loosely), genetic fallacy, and ad-hoc reasoning.
Thank you!

He is just an angry virgin.
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Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 11, 2014 at 10:33 pm
He probably wants to "stab" all the non-virgins repeatedly.
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 12, 2014 at 2:02 am
Which fallacy does this fall under?

Since atheists don't know how the universe came from nothing, or how life got started, it is proof that a god did it.
There is an ALLLL-knowing, ALLLL-powerful, inVISible being who is everywhere, who created the WHOLE universe, who lives in another dimension called heaven, who is perfect in every way, who was never born and will never die, and who watches you every minute of every day (even when you're squeezing one out on the toilet). There are also unicorns, leprechauns, Santa Claus, an Easter Bunny, and a giant purple people eater.

JUST BELIEVE IT!
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 12, 2014 at 2:20 am
(April 12, 2014 at 2:02 am)Jiggerj Wrote: Which fallacy does this fall under?

Since atheists don't know how the universe came from nothing, or how life got started, it is proof that a god did it.

Straight up argument from ignorance.
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#59
RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 12, 2014 at 9:35 am
(April 11, 2014 at 9:42 pm)Aral Gamelon Wrote:
(April 11, 2014 at 1:38 pm)alpha male Wrote: Atheists also use fallacies, but those tend to go unnoticed by other atheists.

Theists also use fallacies, but those tend to go unnoticed by other theists.

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Yes, seriously. Note that I didn't start a thread about the fallacies that atheists use.
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
April 12, 2014 at 9:38 am
(April 12, 2014 at 9:35 am)alpha male Wrote: Yes, seriously. Note that I didn't start a thread about the fallacies that atheists use.

Probably because they aren't nearly as prevalent among atheists, nor are they the beating core of every last argument that atheists make, as they are for theists. Dodgy
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