Comments on: TIA Tuesday: Government is the root of all evil http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/09/30/tia-tuesday-government-is-the-root-of-all-evil/ The theology of Reality Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:15:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Common Sense Atheism » The Irrational Atheist (notes in the margin, index) http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/09/30/tia-tuesday-government-is-the-root-of-all-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-16291 Common Sense Atheism » The Irrational Atheist (notes in the margin, index) Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:59:59 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=459#comment-16291 [...] 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, [...] [...] 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, [...]

]]> By: » TIA Tuesday: A maze of twisty passages, all alike Evangelical Realism http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/09/30/tia-tuesday-government-is-the-root-of-all-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-3738 » TIA Tuesday: A maze of twisty passages, all alike Evangelical Realism Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:21:48 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=459#comment-3738 [...] TIA Tuesday: Government is the root of all evil [...] [...] TIA Tuesday: Government is the root of all evil [...]

]]> By: Galloway http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/09/30/tia-tuesday-government-is-the-root-of-all-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-3371 Galloway Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:35:00 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=459#comment-3371 " The Unholy Trinity makes no effort to provide any evidence of a causal relationship between religion and the various evils they cite as proof of religion’s historically deadly and venomous nature." By definition, we can't win this one. When a Christian does something evil (i.e. church deacon and sunday school teacher: BTK Killer), their side simply defines themselves away from any culpability by saying, "If he did those things, he really wasn't a Christian." So, they are never guilty. . . of anything. ” The Unholy Trinity makes no effort to provide any evidence of a causal relationship between religion and the various evils they cite as proof of religion’s historically deadly and venomous nature.”

By definition, we can’t win this one. When a Christian does something evil (i.e. church deacon and sunday school teacher: BTK Killer), their side simply defines themselves away from any culpability by saying, “If he did those things, he really wasn’t a Christian.” So, they are never guilty. . . of anything.

]]> By: Dominic Saltarelli http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/09/30/tia-tuesday-government-is-the-root-of-all-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-3345 Dominic Saltarelli Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:25:48 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=459#comment-3345 I read TIA myself some months back, and the thing that jumped out at me most was after finishing this particular chapter, Vox neatly eviscerated his previous point about the combination of man's will to power along with atheism being the true culprit behind mass murder, given that his argument is that it doesn't matter what people believe, as mass murder simply happens regardless whenever goverment finds itself in a 'just so' position. Regardless of the merits of each argument from Chapters 11 and 12 as they stand on their own, this is a pretty glaring contradiction in its own right. I read TIA myself some months back, and the thing that jumped out at me most was after finishing this particular chapter, Vox neatly eviscerated his previous point about the combination of man’s will to power along with atheism being the true culprit behind mass murder, given that his argument is that it doesn’t matter what people believe, as mass murder simply happens regardless whenever goverment finds itself in a ‘just so’ position.

Regardless of the merits of each argument from Chapters 11 and 12 as they stand on their own, this is a pretty glaring contradiction in its own right.

]]> By: valdemar http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/09/30/tia-tuesday-government-is-the-root-of-all-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-3339 valdemar Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:16:02 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=459#comment-3339 Well done, DD, for dealing with what amounts to an apologist's version of the Big Lie. It appears in many forms, but the Vox version seems particularly poisonous. I'm currently reading God Is Not Great, incidentally, and finding it pretty good - funny, erudite, perceptive and extremely well written. Confronted by someone world-class like Hitchens, poor little Voxy must feel terribly inadequate as a writer - though of course he'd never admit to envy as a motive for writing his screeds. Well done, DD, for dealing with what amounts to an apologist’s version of the Big Lie. It appears in many forms, but the Vox version seems particularly poisonous.

I’m currently reading God Is Not Great, incidentally, and finding it pretty good – funny, erudite, perceptive and extremely well written. Confronted by someone world-class like Hitchens, poor little Voxy must feel terribly inadequate as a writer – though of course he’d never admit to envy as a motive for writing his screeds.

]]> By: Ric http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/09/30/tia-tuesday-government-is-the-root-of-all-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-3338 Ric Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:13:43 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=459#comment-3338 "you’re probably dealing with someone who is unreasonably biased in favor of objective truth, and you shouldn’t waste your time trying to convince them." I love it. It belongs on a t-shirt or something. “you’re probably dealing with someone who is unreasonably biased in favor of objective truth, and you shouldn’t waste your time trying to convince them.”

I love it. It belongs on a t-shirt or something.

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