#special pleading

[lesbianchemicalplant]

special pleads, special birthdayboy pleads (special pleads, special, special pleads)

oh, no, no, you can't smoke weeds (you can't smoke weeds, no you can't smoke weeds)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

all your posts about the tanakh are giving such strong anti semitism…stop viewing all religion from such a christian lens

Wow, it's so wonderful to finally meet you, Queen of Judaism. I assume you are the singular authoritative voice who speaks on behalf of every Jew worldwide? Is it decided by election, or by birth like a monarchy, or, like, what's the deal?

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LOL. You're kidding right? You mean "all" these? #judaism, #hebrew bible, #torah?

It's not "antisemitic" to criticize Jewish superstitions, scripture, beliefs or practices. Ideas are not people. Find me one post where I've gone after Jewish people, rather than the ideas they believe or the things they do based on those ideas. Whenever you're ready.

I'm not one to panic and bow to your authoritarianism just because you try to invoke the accusation, and it's amazingly dishonest of you to even attempt it.

"'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect." -- Salman Rushdie

Especially considering how unbothered you are about all my posts doing exactly the same about Xianity, Islam, Hinduism, Scientology, pseudo- and anti-science, identity politics and other topics. Including antisemitism itself. Your outrage is selective, inconsistent, manufactured and performative.

Judaism does not get a free pass. It is not excluded from analysis, criticism or even mockery. As soon as you try to coerce people into complying with your personal wish for exceptions (aka special pleading), you disqualify yourself from being taken seriously in any way.

I'll view religion through whatever "lens" (OMG, that's such a pretentious word) I damn well please, thank you. You don't get to dictate to me how I should look at things, especially for ideas that are frequently described as open to, or dependent upon, "interpretation." I'm not obliged to don the bespoke prescription spectacles - or blinders - you would prefer me to wear.

That's a you thing, not a me thing. Keep scrolling, your majesty.

LOL.

[chochote-sijali]

Logical fallacies

[starteller794]

Another in my series on logical fallacies.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

If something can't come from nothing, what existing materials did "god" make everything from?

You can't say "something can't come from nothing" and then solve the problem using a god made of nothing who makes everything from nothing.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Apologists defend their Jesus as ineffectually as the disciples did in Gethsemane, wielding the paper swords of special pleading and question begging.

They pretend to be objective scholars but are in fact spin doctors for an institution in which they have far too much invested to ever seriously reconsider the issues."

-- Robert M. Price

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

They think this is bulletproof. And not completely insane.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Religion is harmful because belief is not bounded by what's true or real.