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Whereas adherents of certain other aforementioned religions have set off plenty of explosives explicity in the name of their religion(s). Again, not enough representation to be a valid indictment against the religion itself, but the flaw in your logic is visible here as well.



That is a rather long winded way of saying I'm wrong. My logic is flawed but you never say what that flaw is.

To reduce my statement:

A. Citizens of the USA are primarily Christian.

B. All presidents since 1941 have professed Christianity.

C. These same men have authorized the detonation of many bombs.

Therefore, Christians do explode bombs.

So tell me great and wise Poobah Sammitch, where is the flaw in my logic? What piece of evidence is incorrect?



Thanks for the assist, WBAM, but after basams' thorough trouncing of the man, apparently anyone can get magicjoke worked up. Allow me.

Flaw in your logic? The flaw is that you possess just enuogh enough logical ability to pinch off these little nuggets of lucidity every time you feel so inclined. Your motive is so painfully obvious behind each and every one of these posts that nobody bothers to listen to what you have to say. Is it because we are opposed to hearing out dissenting opinions? No. It's because you're an asshole. And not even an entertaining asshole.

You take it upon yourself, as though it were your mission, to personally highlight every possible hypocrisy, atrocity, minor misgiving, major blunder, and typographical error ever perpetrated by what you see as the vast conspiracy of the religious right, conservatives, evangelicals, Republicans, and pretty much anyone else with a remotely Judeo-Christian bent who disagrees with your extremely well-formed and comprehensive arguments on whichever political issue you deign to address. Because after all, how could anyone possibly disagree with the great Magicjay without being a bigoted reactionary who swears by Falwell and is incapable of any form of critical thinking?

To clear the air:
- I'm registered as an independent voter.
- I am related to just about every 'race' you can think up and am equally fond of all of them.
- If you were to pull your head out of your ass long enough to examine my stances on all the issues, you'd discover that I am, in fact, a moderate.
- I stand by my position that Jerry Falwell (along with Pat Robertson) is a radical fundamentalist who is more concerned with political agendas than Biblical Christianity and has no business representing Christians of any denomination.
- I have repeatedly demonstrated my ability to see all sides of an issue and objectively weigh the pros and cons of varying positions on said issue, delivering a sound argument and refusing to ignore dissenting opinions (except when they coincide with aforementioned assholery).

Why am I mentioning these things to you? Because believe it or not, I'm pretty typical of the average poster on these boards, if not in this forum. Yeah, I've made mistakes in things I've said before. I've changed my mind on things. But it doesn't matter to me. Why? Because I don't make it my mission to seek and destroy whenever I'm confronted with anything that smacks of an opposing ideology. I don't feel it's my life's calling to point out every little wrongdoing and inconsistency that can be found among others' political affiliations or belief systems.

I also mentioned those things because you never take them into account when you're stringing together these witty repartèes of yours. You're fueled by ego and powered by bitterness, and you'll be damned if you let anyone argue with you when you're busy destroying The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy™ and The Religious Right™ (even though I'm not a member of either of those, or at least not last I checked).

I hate to say this... heh, no I don't. I can hear your arguments in this (and many other) threads whenever I want just by popping in a Bad Religion CD. So why don't I? Because as plenty of listeners can attest, after a while it just starts to get old.

Maybe that's why you're having trouble scrounging together people who will continue to listen to what you have to say.

And for the record, the flaw in your 'Christians drop bombs' argument was that you equated correlation with causation, as per usual.

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