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God, Gods, and Fairies

4 pointsby themodder666almost 6 years ago

2 comments

blacksqralmost 6 years ago
It&#x27;s the old motte-and-bailey argument; the author stands in the bailey and asserts &quot;there is a living God, who created you and cares for you individually, and I have detailed information about this God&#x27;s nature.&quot;<p>When you ask to see some evidence for that, the author runs back into the motte, and says &quot;obviously something led to the existence of the universe, and all my information about the nature of that Something is subjective, which you can&#x27;t impeach. Since you can&#x27;t prove my subjective assertions wrong, I&#x27;ll continue to claim I&#x27;m right. If you don&#x27;t accept my claim you&#x27;re being unreasonable.&quot;
Causality1almost 6 years ago
Another example of the very clichéd &quot;atheism is a religion!&quot; trope. I would suggest that when trying to post Christian propaganda to HN, you not use a site which on its home page features &quot;The War on Christian America&quot; and an article defending convicted child rapist Cardinal George Pell.