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Cynicism about Jesus as an Easter 'treat' : Comments

By Spencer Gear, published 4/4/2018

Don't be so ridiculous as to expect Australian secular people to support the original meaning of Easter. We are into chocolate and not that religious stuff!

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diver dan,

"King Henry VIII presided over the burning of witches at the rate of 3.25 PA. John Calvin is in good company!" was your statement.

That's a poisoning the well fallacy. See: http://www.softschools.com/examples/fallacies/poisoning_the_well_examples/501/

You engaged in this erroneous reasoning by providing negative information about Calvin and the burning of witches. Then you associated this burning of witches with King Henry VIII's doing the same thing. Negative information about Calvin was presented to try to discredit the argument by association with the King's same kinds of actions.

However, introducing this topic had nothing whatsoever to do with the article's thrust of examination of Jesus' resurrection, so in addition you committed a red herring.

So that we can have a rational conversation, I recommend that you quit the use of logical fallacies.
Posted by OzSpen, Thursday, 5 April 2018 10:04:55 PM
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//Halal certification was not the topic of this article. Why don't you write a piece with that focus?//

//Why don't you write an article for On Line Opinion: 'Why Christianity is a religious myth promoted by dim-witted theists'?//

//Why don't you write an article on that topic for On Line Opinion?//

Why don't you write an article for On Line Opinion on the subject of why suggesting that people write an article for On Line Opinion does not, and never can, constitute a sound rebuttal of any argument?
Posted by Toni Lavis, Friday, 6 April 2018 6:36:01 AM
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Toni Lavis,

If you had read the statements you quoted in context, you would know that I suggested these articles, not as rebuttals, but as responses to posters who dish up red herrings.

Halal certification, for example, had absolutely nothing to do with the Easter celebration of Jesus' death and resurrection. Neither did the ad hominem fallacy of labelling believers as 'dim-witted "theists"'.

I've already presented some rebuttals in other posts.
Posted by OzSpen, Friday, 6 April 2018 10:01:46 AM
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A far cry from the scene where Moses comes down from the mount carrying the ten commandments scratched out on a couple of rocks later being known as 'tablets' and by the time Hollywood finished they became finely crafted chiselled pieces of stone.
Anyone happen to have these verified 'tablets' to which half of humanity has waged war on the other half espousing to follow those same commandments.
A planet of morons not knowing how to wipe their backsides but professing to know 'Gods" wishes, but don't have his address or telephone no
Posted by Special Delivery, Saturday, 7 April 2018 6:10:55 PM
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Now lets see. People of Jewish descent have won 41% of all Nobel prizes in economics, 28% in medicine, 26% in physics,19% in chemistry and the list goes on and on. These people make up less than 2% of worlds population. Muslims make up 23% of worlds population and have 12 individuals who have received nobel prizes. It is obvious that ignorance like that displayed by sd and other Israel haters is their dislike for the God of Israel. Jew hating is usually Jew jealousy by people full of ignorance.
Posted by runner, Saturday, 7 April 2018 7:41:52 PM
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//Now lets see. People of Jewish descent have won 41% of all Nobel prizes in economics, 28% in medicine, 26% in physics,19% in chemistry and the list goes on and on. These people make up less than 2% of worlds population.//

The Icelandic people, per capita, have one more Nobel Prizes than any race on Earth. Obviously Odin loves his children more than Jehovah. Praise be to the All-Father.
Posted by Toni Lavis, Saturday, 7 April 2018 8:35:33 PM
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