Name the Logical Fallacy in the Religious Quote Game

Started by TomFoolery, May 26, 2015, 02:15:17 PM

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TomFoolery

Anyone interested in a game where you name at least one logical fallacy in a posted religious quote? The person who answers posts a new quote with a fallacy.

QuoteI believe in Christ like I believe in the sun â€" not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else. - C.S. Lewis

For reference:
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/taxonomy.html
How can you be sure my refusal to agree with your claim a symptom of my ignorance and not yours?

dtq123

Appeal to Nature? Well, I tried, and it seems somewhat like an appeal to nature because he used the fact that see can see (A natural act) to assert that god exists.

Also... Non Sequitor, And Correlation is not causality.
A dark cloud looms over.
Festive cheer does not help much.
What is this, "Justice?"

dtq123

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QuoteThe Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry
A dark cloud looms over.
Festive cheer does not help much.
What is this, "Justice?"

SGOS

Quote from: dtq123 on May 26, 2015, 08:27:07 PM
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry

That's the fallacy of the overreaching mouthful (OK, so I made that one up).

"No matter what we ask according to God's will, he hears us."

From a copy of a Watch Tower that I found tucked behind the doorknob of my front door.

dtq123

Quote from: SGOS on May 26, 2015, 10:12:26 PM
"No matter what we ask according to God's will, he hears us."

From a copy of a Watch Tower that I found tucked behind the doorknob of my front door.

This argument makes the following assumptions:

God Exists
God has Ears
God chooses to listen

For Instance; If god exists, he is listening.

It's another Non Sequitor, Just because there is a god, that doesn't mean your god exists, let listens

A dark cloud looms over.
Festive cheer does not help much.
What is this, "Justice?"

dtq123

QuoteWe must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come
Author: A.W. Tozer
(Yes... Christians can have "good insights," this can be taken many ways, feel free to just to choose one)
A dark cloud looms over.
Festive cheer does not help much.
What is this, "Justice?"

TomFoolery

Quote from: dtq123 on May 26, 2015, 10:57:51 PM
We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come
So in essence, some things are predictable, and those predictable things should be used as tools to <insert some verb here?> unpredictable things? That would assume that predictable things have some sort of causative relationship to non predictable things, or are even in any way related to them, making it at the very least a quanitificational fallacy. What defines the uncertainties (or certainties for that matter) of the world? Is there some room for lateral movement between the two ideas?

How about?
Quote“Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.”
― John Piper
How can you be sure my refusal to agree with your claim a symptom of my ignorance and not yours?