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Religious claims that get under your skin
November 6, 2017 at 12:29 am
OK, I am an atheist and that is fine. I can handle pretty much any claim chucked by theists and that is fine too.
But there is one theist thing that will get me frankly irrationaly mad. And that is the pre-suppositonalists of the Sye Ten Bruggencate type of thiing.
It isn't the religious claims per se, those I can gladly deal with. It is the claim that they know better what I "truly" believe behind it all that really raises my hackles.
Contributions and heckles welcome. Have at it.
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RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
November 6, 2017 at 12:40 am
I hate that one too. That's usually where I *bop* them over the head with my Clue-By-Four™ and give them a 10-minute misconduct for attempted mind reading.
Perhaps for a change of pace I'll counter that argument with a bald assertion that they're actually worshipping {fill in the blank} because of {something they referenced in an earlier comment}.
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RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
November 6, 2017 at 12:43 am
Clue-By-Four™
That is priceless on so many levels.
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RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
November 6, 2017 at 12:44 am
None.
But "You just gotta have faith" is pretty mindless.
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RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
November 6, 2017 at 12:47 am
Pre-suppositionalists drive me up the tree, too. It’s the worst perversion of philosophy I’ve ever encountered and is invariably presented in a manner so smug and self-satisfied that my first reaction isn’t to argue with the person so much as to grab a good stout stick.
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RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
November 6, 2017 at 4:33 am
Transubstantiation. 'It changed, but there's no way to tell that it changed.'
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‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
November 6, 2017 at 5:42 am
None that I can think of specifically. It's more attitudes that I find annoying than any particular argument, like a theist not listening to a counter-argument and just parroting their same initial argument.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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RE: Religious claims that get under your skin
November 6, 2017 at 5:53 am
So you mean Pre-suppositionalists then, right?
