One-Line Rebuttals: Close-Mindedness

This first One-Line Rebuttal video covers the use of "automatic win" terms like 'close-minded' or 'bigot', and demonstrates how they are a failure of intellect.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Bigot
• Close-minded
• out
• of
• context
• atheism
• atheist
• rebuttal
• debate
• arguments

[EdwardHowton]

For those wondering what the removed comments are, here's one:

Serge1965

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Freaking easy to be a bully, Kid, when hiding behind your computer screen ya moron but try this if you are a real man, insult a friend and receive the slap with gladness and turn the other cheek and get that stupid thing off of ur face!!!

[EdwardHowton]

My question is, why would insulting a friend make me a man? My friends aren't faith-headed idiots who assert how great mythical magic men are and how wonderful it is that they died for the horrible person I am.

Such myths aren't real.

Also, the fact that I wear a mask doesn't make me wrong. Thanks for being an example of close-mindedness, Serge.

[EdwardHowton]

I don't see how anything I wrote reveals my 'credulity, or lack thereof', but I'm glad you bring that up. I'm not credulous, and I couldn't be happier about it.

Credulous: "willing to believe or trust too readily, esp. without proper or adequate evidence; gullible."

Faith: "belief that is not based on proof"

PMs aren't a public forum, and yes I am aware YouTube is one, that's the point of my vids.

Do you really want to continue sticking your foot down your throat, or are you going to learn?

[EdwardHowton]

Pi is 3.141592...

I don't have to know the exact value to tell you it's not 4 or 3. I've explained this four times now.

Just like your faith, I don't have to know exactly what you decided you believe in and what you don't believe in to tell you that all of it is unfounded on any real evidence. That's the point of faith; you have it when you have no evidence to back it up. Faith is idiotic for that reason, whatever justifications you might claim to have.

You brought the discussions up, not me.

[dom198013]

How can you judge the Pi value if you don't know what it is? That's nonsense. I'm glad you posted the reply message on your comment board, because what you wrote reveals your credibility, or lack there of. And for your info, it's a public forum, and your video relates to our discussion. Hence the last message.

[EdwardHowton]

If people like me don't judge your faith to be the nonsense it is, who else will? You?

Again with the Pi example; you might believe Pi equals 4, but it's wrong, and I'm going to point that out even if I don't know the real value of it. Just like your faith. You might think it's right, but I can still point out why you and it are both wrong, and I'm going to. The fact you believe something doesn't make it right or true, far from it.

Quit being a douche by taking private discussions public.

[dom198013]

I like this line, and I may have had a wrong impression of who you are. I apologize. And I'm glad you can admit when you're wrong. I just wish you could have done the same in our discussions instead of insulting my faith, which is simply what I believe in, right OR wrong. It's not up to you or any atheist to judge if faith or religion is right or wrong. That's up to those who have faith, not those who don't. I just wish you could have seen that. Take care Edward. And all the best.

[AzmodanKijur]

Hmmm, my comment is gone. My prior one was agreeing with you, but I guess the system swallowed it. :)