I never cease to be amazed at how professing Christians can repeatedly cling to the same 1% or less of Scriptural passages, misapplying them to justify their erroneous positions, all as they repeatedly ignore the other 99% of divine biblical testimony. It’s insanity to me. It’s even worse when they rely on the ambiguity fallacy…
Category: Fallacies and Biases
Logical Fallacies: Appeal to Motive… and beyond.
Appeal to motive, also known as Argument from Motives, or Questioning Motives, is a true bane of honest intellectual and spiritual discourse. One of the main reasons why is the fact that it is never truly a standalone fallacy, but rather, it is one that encompasses (or is closely yoked with) other such fallacies. The goal…
Intelligent Discourse: There Is No Such Thing as “Your Truth” | PragerU & Ben Shapiro: YouTube
Video One: “What we know for sure is “speaking your truth” would have to be the same as “speaking THE truth,” …so why not just say that? The truth is the truth. Don’t qualify it. Can something be true for you and not true for me? Is the truth relative or is the truth fixed?…
Intelligent Discourse: Integrity: Honest, Objective, and Sincere Dialogue
Most anyone can be made to look foolish: By restating their position(s) in an incorrect, out of context, or otherwise misleading manner and then proceeding to knock-down such straw-men; or by… Interrupting them before they have an opportunity to finish their thought/sentence/argument, and then proceeding to refute that incomplete statement as if it represented the…
Cognition: List of Cognitive Biases
Spiritual Wrestlings 