{"quotes":[{"text":"In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["argumentation","belief","bible","blind-faith","development","evidence","fact","faith","fallacies","growth","knowledge","learning","lies","logical-fallacies","mentality","reasonable","religion","skepticism","theology","truth"],"id":33933,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","amateur","antitheistic","apologetics","application","argumentation","atheism","bible","counter-argument","criticism","deceit","development","dialect","discernment","fallacies","false-preaching","false-prophet","false-teaching","falsehood","figurative","foolish","immaturity","improvement","instrument","judgment","knowledge","language","learning","lies","lingo","logic","logical-fallacies","mastering","mastering-oneself","mastering-the-mind","maturity","metaphor","mind","music","philosophy","practice","preacher","professional","prophet","religion","scripture","simile","studying","teacher","theism","theology","truth","wisdom"],"id":45066,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["age","aged","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","belief","beliefs","birth","burial","bury","child","children","cycle","dead","death","die","elder","elders","fallacies","fallacy","funeral","funerals","funny","gone-too-soon","hereafter","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","joke","jokes","kid","kids","life","life-after-death","life-and-death","misbelief","misbeliefs","misconception","misconceptions","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","offspring","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","philosopher","philosophers-cry","philosophic","philosophy","prepare","prepared","quotations","quotes","rest-in-peace","rip","satire","stoic","stoicism","stoics","surprise","surprising","the-elders","the-hereafter","tomb","tombstone","tombstones","unprepared","weep"],"id":54786,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If one man challenges a statement and another cannot prove it, it does not necessarily follow that the statement is false.","author":"Ron Brackin","tags":["apologetics","fallacies","logic","the-bible"],"id":66807,"author_id":"Ron+Brackin"},{"text":"The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wrong. It keeps his mouth shut, his ears open, and his research extensive. And yet this is also the deadliest because when he is in fact proven wrong, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge it. It then keeps his mouth open, his ears shut, and his research inexistent.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","argument","debate","development","facts","fallacies","intelligence","knowledge","learning","logic","opinions","pride","research","right","studying","truth","wisdom","wrong"],"id":82502,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Where did that remark come from? Mormonism, as anyone can easily find out, is one of a number of Christian sects which came into being in the USA in the nineteenth century. It differs from mainstream Christianity on certain technical points which Dawkins would at least pretend not to understand. So why write 'four if you count Mormonism'? Why not 'five if you count Mormonism and Christian Science'? Or 'ten if you include Mormonism, Christian Science, Christedelphians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Reformed Judaism, Shi'ite Islam, Strict Baptists, Celtic Orthodox, Unitarians and Quakers?' Does Dawkins think that the Mormons' adoptionist Christology is so far removed from the mainstream as to constitute a separate faith (while the Jehovah's Witnesses' arianism is not?) Or is he playing a numbers game, saying that the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints is so numerous as to count as a religion in its own right, distinct from 'Christianity'. (But then, why not 'Four if you include Catholicism'?) We never find out. Like Melchizidec, it comes from nowhere and it goes nowhere. It popped into Dawkins head and he wrote it down. It makes me doubt whether our author is fully in command of his brief.'Four if you include Mormons'. Honestly, you might just as well say 'Britain consists of three countries: England, Scotland and Wales – or four if you include Tooting Bec.","author":"Andrew Rilstone","tags":["atheism","christianity","fallacies","religion","theology"],"id":86964,"author_id":"Andrew+Rilstone"},{"text":"It is only a mere fallacy to say you are quitting when your heartbeat is in tune with the beat. A real change is a real change!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["accomplishment","change","fallacies","falling-in-love","love","quitting"],"id":182803,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"It is only by ignoring fact, science, and reason that one can support current Republican positions.","author":"Avi Silverman","tags":["convservatives","democrats","fallacies","fallacy","liberal","logic","political-parties","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","republicans","trump"],"id":184266,"author_id":"Avi+Silverman"},{"text":"It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agenda","apologetics","arrogance","atheism","corruption","denial","dishonesty","ego","egotistical","fallacies","falsehood","hate","honesty","hypocrisy","logic","logical-fallacies","manipulation","pride","reasoning","religion","self-righteousness","selfishness","spirituality","theism","truth"],"id":273397,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["argue","arguing","argumentation","babble","babbling","correct","craftiness","debate","debating","deceit","english","fallacies","fallacy","funny","funny-but-true","humor","incorrect","justification","language","psychobabble","psychology","redefine","refutation","retorts","self-justification","study","wrongness"],"id":294988,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}