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RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
July 25, 2015 at 8:08 pm
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(July 25, 2015 at 11:45 am)Randy Carson Wrote: (July 25, 2015 at 11:39 am)Cato Wrote: You must be joking.
Nope.
Your posts are classic ad hominem attacks. You think that by going after the man, you can undermine his arguments - but that's not how it works, is it?
Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest chess players of all time. He was also an anti-Semitic nut-job later in life.
I can study his games while ignoring his rants against the Jews.
You can study Sungenis' books on the Eucharist, sola scriptura and sola fide while ignoring his views on the holocaust.
I agree with this - I've been criticized for debunking the source and not the argument by other forum members so I think it's only fair everyone follows that rule - Otherwise it's guilty by association. Richard Wagner was a great composer and also highly anti-semitic, one doesn't invalidate the other. John Lennon was allegedly a wife-beater, but still a great musician. Bill Maher is a great comedian but has a problem with vaccines. I guarantee that I can find something problematic about whoever you're quoting to support your point.
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RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
July 25, 2015 at 8:18 pm
Yeah, technically it is an ad hominem. However, it does give insight in how delusion the individual is on other topics.
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RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
July 25, 2015 at 8:33 pm
Yeah, the US Civil War POW camp survivors were skin and bones. The Confederacy had trouble even feeding it's own troops. That's why they desperately tried to keep up prisoner exchanges with the Union until Grant stopped them.
I don't see how that relates to a handful of collaborators that got decent food or the 6 million Jews gassed during WWII by the Nazis.
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RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
July 25, 2015 at 8:36 pm
I consider holocaust denial to be one of the most ridiculous acts of stupidity since the second world war - It is no worse than believing there's a magical reptilian governing the world. But one can be a Holocaust denier and still make one or two points that are correct about other topic. The fact someone gets the easier wrong doesn't follow that the harder will be as well. I remember doing this exam where I was able to answer all hard questions but then I couldn't answer the first, most basic and simple one.
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RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
July 25, 2015 at 8:48 pm
Wyrd...you're giving Randy a run for the Dumbest Poster in the thread title. Give it up.
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RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
July 25, 2015 at 9:16 pm
(July 25, 2015 at 9:07 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: According to the biblical fairy tale they used to like being counted but then they got a phobia about it.
I suppose it's a good thing the Nazis didn't just rely on the census to find the Jews. They also used tax returns, synagogue membership lists, mandatory police registration forms, questioning of relatives/neighbors/officials, etc.
One thing you can never accuse the Germans of being is inefficient. They maintained impeccable records of every Jew they killed with their name, date of birth, country of origin, date of capture, and date of execution.
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