Previously I made a post<\/a> which examined the logic (or lack thereof) in a post made on parabiodox<\/a>. Today I see there has been a follow up post<\/a> that addresses some of the “issues” I made, so I think it is only fair that I (in turn) address some of the new comments.<\/p>\n

First off, I have to say “thank you” to parabiodox for his reasonable, and generally kind comments. I am flattered. The blog post begins:<\/p>\n

This is a very readable, calm and intelligent response to a rather bombastic blog entry from me.
\nOf course the only reason I wrote it was I was hoping that someone would come along and write the kind of response that Why Dont You Blog?<\/a> has provided.
\nMyself I do indulge in a bit of calm and measured article writing once in a while, but what’s wrong with a bit of mud-slinging as well ? Variety is the spice of life I think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I couldn’t agree with the sentiment here more. There is nothing wrong with a bit of mud-slinging and, to me, the reason people blog is to get issues of their chest. At least this way no one gets hurt (unless they are very thin skinned..). Blogs would be boring places indeed if people did not rant, rave and froth every now and then.<\/p>\n

Talking of mud-slinging I did detect a bit of it in the article Theistic Logic<\/a>, the implication being that this is the way all theists think, of course as I know only too well it definately isn’t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This, I am not to sure about. Where ever possible I try to avoid stereotyping people into a particular school of thought, and I certainly pounce on it when people try to do it to me, so I hope this is an interpretation issue more than anything else. Looking back on the previous post<\/a>, the closest example I can find is when I begin “Sadly this is an infuriating example of the theistic line\u00c2\u00a0of logic.”<\/p>\n

Now, that was never intended to mean it was the way all<\/strong> “theists” think – but it is a common fallacy which is used in many, many, blog posts where theists refer to atheists. Parabiodox continues:<\/p>\n

The blog entry was parabiodox thinking, and there’s only one member of that particular philosophy to date.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While that is reassuring, ( \ud83d\ude42 ) it is not completely accurate. IMHO most blog posts only speak for the line of thought adopted by the person who made the post, however this is a line of thought which is echoed across dozens of blogs (and is often found in the comments section on atheist blogs). While parabiodox does indeed seem to follow a unique philosophy, the fallacies in this particular post are reasonably common.<\/p>\n

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