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This "argument" is full of non-sequiturs and questionable premises. It's just bad.
Probably the only okay part of this 'argument', although I'd like to know who is doing the 'alleging' to test their reliability.
Double non sequitur because 1) even if the stabber is Muslim, it does not follow that Muslims in general are stabbers and therefore violent (this is a hasty generalization) and 2) we did not ascertain the religion of the stabber - if they even have one - so this premise has no relation to the previous one.
Another non sequitur because we haven't said much about Christians (other than the fact that the stabbing victim is one). Even if we grant the truth of a very questionable second premise, we can't infer that Christians are rational - in fact, we can't infer anything about them.
Glaring non sequitur. That adherents to a belief system are irrational does not imply the belief system itself is irrational, or that its conclusions/predictions are false. This is because belief systems are pure, but the people practicing them are not (instead coming from a host of cultural, economic and geographical backgrounds which all determine behaviour, completely separate from the beliefs themselves). Who in their right mind would promote such garbage? Lol.
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answered on Monday, Jul 26, 2021 08:22:02 PM by TrappedPrior (RotE) | |
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