1. If the Bible were not true, logic would not be meaningful. 2. Logic is meaningful. 3. Therefore, the Bible is true.
Fundamentalist evangelical American Christians - no concept of even the faintest shred of reality, epitomised by their website - .
AiG.
(SigourneysBeaver took off and nuked the entire site from orbit on, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 10:18, 18 replies)

I have a problem with the first assumption
"If the Bible were not true, logic would not be meaningful"

I don't get that logic at all.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 11:11, closed)

indeed
3 can correctly be deduced from 1 & 2 being true. it's just that there's no reason to suppose 1 is true in the first place
( plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 11:37, closed)

It's true because God said so, is their argument.
Which is why they should all be sectioned. And then shot and burned for fuel.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 12:09, closed)

1 The bible is the word of god. 2. God exists because the bible says so.
Brilliant.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 12:16, closed)

But Christians don't hold the Bible to be the word of God.
Muslims might view the Qur'an that way, but the Christian approach to the Bible has always been that the Bible is the corrected writings of various individuals who have born witness to things.
Of course, I may have only met non-crazy Christians.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 15:44, closed)

All religious people should be sectioned.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 11:25, closed)

Billy Connolly, innit?
"If you go into a hospital and tell them god talks to you, they don't let you out!"
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 11:29, closed)

Well, the extremists...
...the ones who prefer praying over their sick children rather than letting them receive modern medicine...yes.
(SigourneysBeaver took off and nuked the entire site from orbit on, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 11:52, closed)

There was some guy in the news recently who used to pray on children in hospital.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 12:07, closed)

Now then, now then.

(SigourneysBeaver took off and nuked the entire site from orbit on, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 12:09, closed)

There was a lovely study on prayer in hospital, commissioned by some religious group

After a properly controlled independent study, they were handed the following results:

1) People who were prayed for and didn't know about it recovered no quicker than people who weren't prayed for.

2) People who were prayed for and DID know about it took LONGER to recover than those who weren't prayed for.

They didn't publicise the results heavily.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 14:19, closed)

Use of the scientific method must have invoked Satan.
Rookie mistake, really.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 16:03, closed)

Millions of lonely people brought together by a shared delusion, giving up all their own spare time and money just to keep the framework ticking over in the face of derision.
But that's enough about WoW.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 12:06, closed)

*cricket applause*

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 16 Dec 2013, 12:08, closed)

I find it amusing.
So many who claim to be infected with this hate-filled, violent mind-virus seem to be immune to it when it comes to raping children, paying rent-boys or making money.
I'ts almost as if the deceitful pieces of shit make things up or something...
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 18 Dec 2013, 19:30, closed)

careful m8, you might cut yourself on all that edge

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 18 Dec 2013, 20:33, closed)