corky, just because the "culture" at the time was vile does not justify

Yeah, his comments on that are pretty cringe.

... is no kind of argument at all.

Sure, it is.

You just don't want to acknowledge it because of the implications of the answer to the question.

You view the countless religious myths, legends and stories from throughout history as just that-myths, legends and stories.

Except in the singular case of the ones you believe in to be more than that.

Ah, so. Now, when confronted, you were just, 'pushing buttons".

No, it's what I've been doing the entire time. Watching you get pissy because your goat herder myths are questioned is kind of funny.

Appeal to Authority... is when there is no rationale given, as I provided in the link.
And if we took away your ad hominem and several other logical fallacies, you wouldn't be able to post at all.

#90 | Posted by Corky

You post their views because they have credentials and they tickle your confirmation bias. You see their views as more authoritative because you see them as being more intelligent than average.

Your entire premise is 'they're smart, they agree with me, prove me wrong.' It's a terrible argument.

What ad hominem? Which other logical fallacies? Or is this you entering the "I know you are but what am I" phase?

Meanwhile there are physicists, astrophysicists, neurophysicists, the former head of the Human Genome project, prominent Phds in all sorts of sciences that disagree with your OPINION.

There's probably even more who agree with my position or, at the very least, disagree with yours. Why don't you mention them?

The reason I find it interesting to push your buttons on this is I'm fascinated how quickly you go from a rather logical, thoughtful poster to a logical fallacy fanatic the moment your precious stories are questioned.

Here come the arguments from authority.

If all those folks said Zeus was real and this war is to please him and Mars, would you still nod along?

Derision of people who happen to disagree with your opinions says that you are

You're as tiresome as a Trumper who thinks it's mere "disagreement" when they're given the derision they've earned.

It has nothing to do with disagreement, sport.

They're stories. Period. Great for conveying wisdom and desired morals/values, but still stories. No different than the litany of others that came before and are viewed by you yourself as simply stories.

Sean Bean died for FRODO! HE DIED FOR US ALL!

Can we just send the Eagles this time? Please? Just get it over, man.

If this article was about commanders telling their troops that this war was to support Trump in his fight against Sauron, would you take that seriously?

I'm quite confident that I don't need Bronze Age goat herder myths to tell me what to do.

The hilarity of that comment, however, is through the roof. You spend a ton of effort trying to support and justify your faith instead of just believing it. Who's the one with confidence issues?

Also, I don't care if you disagree with me. I'm quite certain you do disagree with me regarding the myths. Nor do I doubt that you know more about the myths.

The issue, however, is that it's no different than being extremely knowledgeable about something like The Lord of the Rings.

I just said you shouldn't be so self-righteous about your opinions of religious people, considering what some extreme atheists have done.

Which is entirely and completely irrelevant.

and you believe you KNOW the truth

Nope. Why do you think I mentioned the countless others in the past who predicted and were wrong?

I'm entirely aware that this one might turn out otherwise, but I'm not banking on it. In fact, I'd expect to win three lotteries on the same day before this actually comes true.

It is a fact, however, that we apparently have a military rife with people willing to blow everything to hell because their particular flavor of Bronze Age goat herder myth tells them it will be so.

So now you are going to conflate legal and illegal immigrants. This is pathetic.

#84 | Posted by BellRinger

Irrelevant. This is just a canned line you've been trained to toss out there same as the "but we're not a democracy, we're a republic" is barfed up every time people point out the degradation of our democratic institutions.

Probably not something he can legally do, but we all know that's a meaningless caveat these days.

Men have ------- because all human embryos begin with a shared, default development plan that forms mammary structures before sex chromosomes trigger differentiation into male or female around week 6-7.

Female is the default developmental pathway. Without Y chromosome gene expression to turn on testosterone production, you're female.

In other words, women come before men (with me, at least they do...).

Chalk up a big ol' L for Genesis, eh?

Aw, well, at least we now KNOW THE TRUTH!
Stalin used "militant atheism" as an excuse to wipe out at least 12 million people

Pssst nobody ever cares about militant atheism as you cluck around chirping about it every single time as if it's not a massive non sequitur.

What we do know is that countless people have gone down this road throughout history. Not a single one got it right.

This one won't either.

"Proponents"

Wait wait wait...you mean idiots who believe this superstitious crap...think it's true?!?! GTFOOH!!

Don't worry, corky, when they burn the world down to try and force their superstition into reality, the internet wont' be here for me to tell you, "I told you so."

"In the story..."

Keyword in bold.

Imagine the absurdity of being forced to watch the world burn down because a bunch of idiots believe a Bronze Age goat herder myth about a dead guy coming back to whisk them away to a fairyland place called "heaven."

We're going to be stuck (assuming we survive, of course...) sitting in the smoldering ruins of humanity and its civilization listening to these dumbf*&^s chirping "he'll be here any day now, I know it!" because they're too stupid to know its not going to happen.

#10 | Posted by fishpaw

How does it feel to be a pedo protector, pedo protector?

Now you're going to bust out the xenophobe card. So pathetic and so on brand for you.

#72 | Posted by BellRinger

Hey s*&^bag, like it or not, your willingness to accept everything that's going on and throw around the rhetoric you're throwing around simply because it's being used against immigrants is a massive supporting piece of evidence of that.

Idiot.

MAGA Pedos sure are stupid.

#31 | Posted by Sycophant

Worse, they think they're the ones who have it all figured out, too.

I'm and all of you should hope this ends quick and successful for the Iranian people and the rest of the world.

This is the line given every time Trump launches a new policy. And it never works out for the better for the average guy.

But the usuals on the left will cheer for Hamas and the rest of the evil proxies and for failure for the US.

#23 | Posted by fishpaw

Never happened and isn't happening now you stupid pile of s*&^.

So, you're in the lefty camp that her life didn't matter

I'm not even addressing this nonsense.

F*&^ you you stupid pile of s*&^.

By libbie dem logic, has a point : )

#24 | Posted by MSgt

You don't know what logic is you stupid pile of s*&^.

You get your "opinions" from social media memes. You are the epitome of stupid.

Religion is a f*&^ing disease.

Why can't people just believe their Bronze Age goat herder myths by themselves and with like minded people while leaving the rest of us out of it?

Using a dead woman as a political football and excuse for you bigoted stupidity is vile, ballwasher.

What a pathetic ghoul you've become.

What happened to land of the free because of the brave.

You're living in it, s*&^bag.

They had every right to refuse service and ask you to leave.

As usual, MAGA trash don't actually know WTF they're talking about because they think everything is for them.

Religion is a disease.

There's a lot of grifters pushing a combo of IVM and another anti-parasitic called fenbendazole.

Like every other pile of snake oil s*&^, it always seems to do exceedingly well when it's a woman's cousin's friends' boss' plumber's guy they knew posting about it on social media.

But when it's a case that's high profile enough to be seen publicly (like Scott Adams) or in actual trials, it doesn't do d*&^.