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    5 months ago

    IMO it’s more useful to learn how to identify and reply to fallacies and bad premises in general, than to focus on the ones that Christian proselytism uses.

    For example, the ones in the video are:

    • “Either god created us, or we are here by random chance” - false dichotomy + strawman
    • “God exists because you can’t disprove him” - inversion of the burden of the proof
    • “Objective morality proves god exists” - naturalistic fallacy + bad premise
    • “Everything that exists was created. Therefore god exists” - bad premise
    • “You’re not educated enough” - ad hominem

    Others that you need to look for are:

    • invincible authority (a type of appeal to authority) - X was said by authority, thus X is true. Christians love this crap.
    • fallacy fallacy - X is backed up by a fallacy, so X is false
    • ad populum - lots of suckers believe it, so it’s true