which argument do you wish people would stop making that is often made by people on YOUR side of the religious debates?
Please don't tell me what arguments you don't like the other sides to make anymore. We know that already, or at least that is another question.
Which one or more arguments do people who generally share your opinions about religion make that you don't think are fair or bright or advisable?
2007-08-15 15:57:44 · 17 answers · asked by thatguyjoe 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a Pagan, usually it's someone arguing about using black magick (it's neutral, just the person's intent, damnit), often referring to themselves by some horrible pseudonym like "Raven Fluffyfang." Please, please, please, stop telling people you can do stuff in real life like on the "Charmed" series. I'm tired of explaining that Paganism isn't the TV stuff.
2007-08-15 16:14:24 · answer #1 · answered by qamper 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Atheists sometimes make the argument against the coherence of omnipotence by saying, "If God is omnopotent, than could he create a rock that is too big for himself to lift?"
This is just plain asinine and I wish atheists would stop using it. You can do better than that.
2007-08-15 23:04:48 · answer #2 · answered by The Dog Abides 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Pascal's Wager
2007-08-15 23:06:50 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I hate when theists play the "majority believes it so it must be true" card.
I really hate it. It's a stupid argument that was solved back when everyone was a kid and their mother said "If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?"
2007-08-15 23:07:24 · answer #4 · answered by pamiekins 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Honestly? It makes me cringe when my fellow Christians express the fact that other people will be going to hell.
It's one thing to decide what doesn't work for you, so you aren't going to do it. It's an entirely different thing to decide what doesn't work for God. Unless God is dictating through them, it seems arrogant.
Frubertives pretty much exemplified my point.
2007-08-15 23:08:33 · answer #5 · answered by Jenny 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I can't think of anything off the top of my head that I don't want those of my belief saying about us.
There are enough people spreading lies and half-truths that ANYTHING true pagans say is good.
2007-08-15 23:08:20 · answer #6 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That evolution doesn't exist. It certainly does, but that fact doesn't mean we came from Apes.
Evolution means things change over time and we do.
2007-08-15 23:21:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians that claim evolution could not have happened because they take the meaning of the Bible literally.
I'm Baptist, btw
2007-08-15 23:07:32 · answer #8 · answered by Jade | My Brain is My Shepherd 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
"Have you ever REALLY read the bible"?
"Where do you get your information, anyway? From Billy Graham, Joel Osteen, the Pope? They're not real Christians"
2007-08-15 23:21:35 · answer #9 · answered by Renata 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Worst Argument: "Because the Bible says so (according to my own interpretation that is)."
2007-08-15 23:07:09 · answer #10 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋