Reply #197: Oh please.

[beam me up scottie]

This has nothing to do with what I think of christianity.

I'm sick of listening to apologetics who refuse to admit bad people are christians too.


"Oh Hitler, no, he COULDN'T be a christian because christians are the good guys. He's not angelic enough to be one of us":eyes:



And you're damned right I don't believe his actions were "un-christianlike", because I don't believe that christians are any better than anyone else.


The christians who do claim moral superiority confuse their religion with morality.

How anyone with any knowledge at all about the history of christianity could claim that with a straight face is beyond me.




For the last time, a snip from the No True Scotsman fallacy- just for the people who think I'm the only one who takes issue with it:

individuals of any particular religion, for example, may tend to employ this fallacy. The statement "no true Christian" would do some such thing is often a fallacy, since the term "Christian" is used by a wide and disparate variety of people. This broad nature of the category is such that its use has very little meaning when it comes to defining a narrow property or behaviour.

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It comes in many other forms - "No decent person would" - it is argued "support hanging/watch pornography/smoke in public", etc. Often the speaker seems unaware that he/she is, in fact, coercively (re)defining what the phrase "decent person" means to include/exclude what he/she wants and NOT simply following what the phrase is already accepted as meaning.