Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians"
snooggums@piefed.world 3 days agoOh look, you had AI vomit out your incorrect position for you.
The "no true scotsman" fallacy is about changing your argument into a non-falsifiable tautology.
That is what you do when you say "They aren't real Christians because they do X." It is the poster child of the no true Scotsman fallacy.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ok, let me put it in a way that you might understand:
You: “No true Scotsman! Anyone who calls themselves an Atheist is an Atheist, no matter if they believe in God.”
Do you see how this makes no sense?
An Atheist is a person who doesn’t believe in God, not a person who calls themselves an Atheist. And saying you aren’t an Atheist if you don’t believe in God isn’t a fallacy but just purely the definition of the term.
Here’s the Wikipedia definition of a Christian:
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christians)
So someone who does not follow or adhere a religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ is not a Christian. Not by fallacy, but by definition.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 days ago
What you are doing is saying they are not really Christians because they do or don't do X and that is exactly what the fallacy is.
Are priests who molest children not real Christians?
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Again: “They are no true Atheists because they believe in God.”
No true scotsman or not?
snooggums@piefed.world 2 days ago
Not.
An atheist who believes in god is like a vegan who regularly and knowingly eats bacon, they are using the wrong labels. Those both have narrow and clear definitions, unlike religion where there are a ton of things that vary between local practices and traditions that can be used to say that they aren't really X religion.