Re: Destructive criticism of Christian apologists (was

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Sun, 24 May 1998 08:42:48 -0500

At 10:06 PM 5/23/98 +0800, Stephen Jones wrote:
>>SJ>Well how about it Glenn? "Do you go regularly to church? Do you
>>>read the Bible and pray regularly? Do you pray for your `enemies' like
>>>Morris, Gish, Ross and Johnson?"
>
>GM>Yes actually I do pray for them and for the day that Christians will
>>cease running from observational facts like chickens run from foxes.
>
>I find this vague answer unconvincing. I will from now on assume that:
>
>1. You don't "go regularly to church"
>2. You don't "read the ible and pray regularly"
>3. You don't "pray for your `enemies' like Morris, Gish, Ross and
>Johnson"
>
>If I am wrong in the above assumptions, please say so. Otherwise,
>whenever you attack Christian apologists destructively I may remind
>those reading your posts of these facts so they can know where you are
>coming from.

This is an excellent example of your tendency to jump to a conclusion that
you want to believe in spite of the fact that I explicitly mentioned my
church attendance. Not only are you wrong, in all of the above, your logic
in getting to the conclusion you do is highly flawed. One cannot conclude
from a positive statement that I pray for Morris, Gish et al, that I don't
pray for Morris, Gish et al., that I don't go to church and that I don't
read the Bible. This is called a non sequitor. It is something that you
should look up in a logic text. And no this is not an ad hominem.
glenn

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