kkkiiinnnggg222 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

2:03 You believe the media

Peraj82 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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aztecoutback (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I love PAT.

CAFoster58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Can I prove this? Absolutely. But to find out, you'll need to withdraw your refusal to debate.

CAFoster58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Like you, these religious worthies would restate a premise or argue a point that Mencken wasn't making, and thus invoke the straw man fallacy. They would toss in Bible verses, just as you do, and therefore fail to support their arguments with anything objective, material, or verifiable. Then they would boast, as you do, that they had disposed of Mencken's arguments. They were wrong, then, just as you are wrong, now.

CAFoster58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

In looking over the arguments against Mencken and those you make against Condell, I find that they have a basic similarity. That is all...just a basic similarity. The actual arguments that were made by these religious intellectuals of nearly a century ago were head and shoulders over yours.

CAFoster58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You see, I didn't study a particular theology. I studied theology, itself, as an intellectual discipline and a way to gain useful knowledge. I found it to be deficient, and I was able to make that argument compelling enough that Columbia University gave me a doctorate......in theology.

CAFoster58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

To be sure, Mencken had no theological credentials. But I do. It has been said that theology has little utility in the real world - at least, the theology of the fundamentalists and the religious zealots. I found that to be true.

CAFoster58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Mencken's critics behaved in much the same way that you do. Having no real evidence or substance to their arguments and generally being incapable of actually arguing the point that Mencken was making, several of them tried to turn his arguments into theological issues, where there was at least some room for interpretation and where they believed themselves to possess the expertise that Mencken lacked.

CAFoster58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Let me clue you in.