• amio
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    Of course. All the answers are simple, in such a way that it’s easy to show how they’re all really bad arguments. Such as “Well it’s simple really, one of the three main characteristics of god, that literally everyone knows, just isn’t true when inconvenient to my position.”

    Hence the “hype” - it’s pretty useful to have an argument that, no matter what people try to argue, immediately has to result in something stupidly obviously illogical, something that contradicts one or more lore points, some cop out bs, bad faith argumentation, or everything all at once.

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      I explicitly said that there were good criticisms of religion and theism, so please read messages to the end before answering. Atheists, both friends and strangers, asked me very hard questions, and I’m thankful to them for that, because these hard questions made me grow. It’s just that this one is not one of them.

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        I explicitly said that there were good criticisms of religion and theism, so please read messages to the end before answering.

        See, this is exactly the bad faith argumentation and copout bullshit that I was literally just talking about.

        “Please refrain from insinuating that just because you find the argument too difficult, I didn’t read it” blah blah etc, see how easy that was and didn’t address any of the actual questions? Real obvious stuff.

        Atheists, both friends and strangers, asked me very hard questions, and I’m thankful to them for that, because these hard questions made me grow. It’s just that this one is not one of them.

        Maybe it could be, if you had the time, balls and intellectual honesty to engage with it

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            It’s pretty funny, this tone you’re taking just because you’re on the Shit Arguments side. Which you evidently know, or you’d be able to come up with better stuff.

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              It’s funny indeed because I just took your tone. Look at my answers to other people on this thread: legitimate criticism call serious answers from me. Aggressiveness and strawmen don’t.