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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 11/20/2005 : 10:52:38
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I always hate the massive ammount of nonsensical answers and flawed logic that gets dumped on your lap (or thrown in your face) whenever you try to have a conversation with a TrueBeliever(tm).
I'm sure you all know what I mean, the endless number of fallacious arguments, the blatant contradictions, the crazy apologetics...
Well, I was trying to think of a single word that could be used to describe all of this, without having to try and stop to explain the various fallacies and broken arguments to those who use them.
I may have come up with one.
A brief google search, before making this post, shows zero hits when searching for my new word. But maybe it has been used somewhere before, hard to say.
Anyway, on to the new word.
The next time you are faced with some crazed Hovindesque creationist argument, or obviously fallacious bit of logic in defense of some religious point of view, you all have permission to use my new word (if it is indeed a totally new word, and I have any actual say in it's use).
re-lig`-i-log-ic: 1. Any of the voluminous fallacies of logic used by religious people to defend, or apologize for, their insane beliefs.
ex- Thats a catchy bit of religilogic you have going there Mr Hovind.
ex- How does your religilogic explain the 100 known major meteorite impacts, none of which have occured in written human history, if the world is only 6000 years old?
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2005 : 10:57:36 [Permalink]
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| Good word!!!! |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2005 : 11:20:13 [Permalink]
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| Yay, another word to my vocabulary. Religilogic. Dig it. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2005 : 11:24:43 [Permalink]
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Variations of the word:
Religilogicosity
Example:
He seemed to wallow in his religilogicosity.
Religilogicism
Example:
He defended his position with a plethora of religilogicisms.
Religilogicized
Example:
Hovind has religilogicized every bit of science that has come his way.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2005 : 11:58:55 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Kil
Variations of the word:
Religilogicosity
Example:
He seemed to wallow in his religilogicosity.
Religilogicism
Example:
He defended his position with a plethora of religilogicisms.
Religilogicized
Example:
Hovind has religilogicized every bit of science that has come his way.
 Just carrying on the fun....
Religilogicist
The doofus is a practicing religilogicist.
Religilogicbator
The doofus is a streetside religilogicbator.
Religilogicfest
What one encounters at any house of worship.
Antidisestablishreligilogicism
What these dillusional people need is to learn antidisestablishreligilogicism (simple skepticism). |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2005 : 15:41:27 [Permalink]
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religisturbation: Deriving way too much pleasure from practicing one's religion.
religidiocy: As in "Hovind took religidiocy to new levels."
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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