• tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    If you read the fallacy you’d realize that you fell into the false fallacy fallacy.

    To quote your linked article:

    No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their generalized statement from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly.[1][2][3] Rather than abandoning the falsified universal generalization or providing evidence that would disqualify the falsifying counterexample, a slightly modified generalization is constructed ad-hoc to definitionally exclude the undesirable specific case and similar counterexamples by appeal to rhetoric.

    There is plenty of countries with a christian background and still majority christian population, that wouldn’t even think to discuss such absurd policies. American nutjobs cannot be considered to be representative of christianity as a whole. Much of their nutjobbery is specific to them.

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      9 months ago

      American nutjobs cannot be considered to be representative of christianity as a whole.

      No one said they were. They aren’t. But they are Christians. That is their religion even if you don’t like that it is the same as yours.