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"Faith is not a good reason to believe in any one thing. It's a bad reason to believe in everything. Faith is not synonymous with any one idea; it is synonymous with any strongly held idea, true or not. But one thing faith is not synonymous with is a logically justified idea."
The government requires the signage of this public awareness contract before any child can legally attend any private school based on religious notions. Please, read the following lines carefully and initial each before signing.
This is the full transcript of an email I received from a young fundamental Christian after he read one of my rebuttals to Christian logic and dogma...
Today I received and email from a fellow atheist and veteran. He had been having a debate with his conservative father on the social and scientific merits of abortion and stem cell research. He asked me to read the debate, mainly the last dozen posts, and get back to him. His father had him questioning his position on stem cell research.
The First Rule of Logic: The Argument from Higher Education-
Your education means little to nothing. Education is information. Without the ability to employ proper logic to process the information you are still illogical and unintelligent. Higher education means nothing, it does not trump all those with lower educations and if you invoke your education as an argument you lose automatically, that's why it's a logical fallacy.
By scientific definition any behavior is not a disease. And saying alcoholism is a disease is misrepresenting a vast amount of the people afflicted with alcoholism, since only a small population of alcoholics have a genetic predisposition to addictive personalities. If we consider alcoholism a disease then we must begin to consider homicide a disease too.
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