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Poll: Wave the wand?
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Keep or Remove Religion Poll
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RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll
(December 6, 2023 at 3:39 am)FrustratedFool Wrote:
(December 5, 2023 at 7:52 pm)brewer Wrote: And there is plenty of bad that has nothing to do with religion.

Which would be irrelevant to the equation.

Should we keep smallpox? Plenty of bad from it, little good.  It doesn't matter that there's many other bad things aside from smallpox.  We should get rid of smallpox with our wand.  Likewise poverty, ignorance, influenza, and anything else we are better off without - like religion.  The only real question is: Does religion do more harm than good.  I think it a clear yes.

Equating religion with smallpox, poverty, ignorance, or influenza is a false equivelence fallacy.

You can think what ever you want but don't use bad logic to justify a belief. The religious frequently use the same fallacy.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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Messages In This Thread
Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by FrustratedFool - December 5, 2023 at 8:48 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Gwaithmir - December 5, 2023 at 9:40 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Fake Messiah - December 5, 2023 at 10:09 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Istvan - December 7, 2023 at 1:13 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by The Grand Nudger - December 5, 2023 at 10:54 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 5, 2023 at 11:28 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by h4ym4n - December 5, 2023 at 12:31 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by emjay - December 5, 2023 at 2:05 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Mister Agenda - December 5, 2023 at 2:08 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Thumpalumpacus - December 5, 2023 at 2:11 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by The Valkyrie - December 5, 2023 at 3:04 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by HappySkeptic - December 5, 2023 at 6:09 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by brewer - December 5, 2023 at 6:15 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Gawdzilla Sama - December 5, 2023 at 10:02 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by brewer - December 5, 2023 at 10:21 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Gawdzilla Sama - December 5, 2023 at 10:40 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by FrustratedFool - December 5, 2023 at 6:17 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by brewer - December 5, 2023 at 6:19 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Mister Agenda - December 7, 2023 at 12:55 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by FrustratedFool - December 5, 2023 at 6:34 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by brewer - December 5, 2023 at 7:52 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by FrustratedFool - December 6, 2023 at 3:39 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by brewer - December 6, 2023 at 8:49 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by The Magic Pudding. - December 6, 2023 at 4:43 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by FrustratedFool - December 6, 2023 at 8:55 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by brewer - December 6, 2023 at 11:12 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by FrustratedFool - December 6, 2023 at 11:24 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Angrboda - December 6, 2023 at 12:41 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by FrustratedFool - December 6, 2023 at 2:06 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by FrustratedFool - December 7, 2023 at 12:58 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Mister Agenda - December 7, 2023 at 1:02 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by FrustratedFool - December 7, 2023 at 3:26 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by Mister Agenda - December 8, 2023 at 11:51 am
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 7, 2023 at 4:15 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by FrustratedFool - December 7, 2023 at 4:20 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 7, 2023 at 5:05 pm
RE: Keep or Remove Religion Poll - by GrandizerII - December 11, 2023 at 2:40 am

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