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Author Topic:   Is there a correlation between religious fundamentalism and holocaust denying?
anglagard
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Message 65 of 96 (433945)
11-13-2007 6:10 PM
Reply to: Message 61 by crashfrog
11-13-2007 4:48 PM


Re: A false dichotomy
I wonder when you're going to contribute meaningfully to any topic.
Please don't mistake the utter impotence of your arguments for any particular intractability on the part of your opponents.
What is your definition of meaningful? Slavish agreement and praise of you? That your opinions count more than anyone else because you count more than anyone else?
There's no such thing as a "fundamentalist atheist."
Sure there is, it's an atheist who uses the same tactics as a fundamentalist to silence opposition.
Tactics such as:
1. Redefining common words such as culture, race, philosophy, economics, etc. just to convince one of the delusion they 'won' as opposed to contribute meaningfully to any discussion.
2. Demanding utterly unique systems of classifying knowledge not used by any earthly entity such as history is part of anthropology, or hand basket weaving is part of engineering, or conversely, the study of logic is not part of philosophy.
3. Repeatedly accusing any opponent of holding to beliefs they explicitly state they do not such as "everything is philosophy."
4. Repeatedly using strawmen arguments (see above).
5. Claiming that various people who have not given any statement of support for specific points agree with you when there is no evidence they have. Such as claiming Ben or Nator agree with your position that economics "contributes nothing to human knowledge."
6. Claiming victory in the face of universal opposition such as what occurred when you were the only person arguing Hispanic is a race instead of a culture.
7. Falsely claiming your opponents arguments support your positions.
I say if you get to make up non-standard definitions and classification systems just to set up and knock down a straw man, then Jon gets to create a new phrase to describe such behavior on the part of any given 'fundamentalist atheist.'
At least you haven't argued against the holocaust, so far as I know, so I guess such fundamentalist debate methods are not related to holocaust denying in this specific case.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon
The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza

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