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Give me an example of a sophistry rl.
That's to easy, it can be summed up in just one word. "spendius"
That's too easy rl. It is sophistry in its crudest form. Not only is it fallacious but it can only be aimed for its plausibility at the very lowest of intelligences. Which reveals something about you in case you don't know. And the company you keep. My statements are not only not fallacious but they are implausible and as sophistry is the rendering of fallacious arguments in a plausible form I fail the test on both counts.
How can my arguments be plausible when nobody accepts them? You must not know what sophistry is. You just use the word as an all purpose insult for when you are stumped because you're frightened of being stumped because it proves you're not as intelligent as you might have thought and that is a simple fact you are not ready to face up to yet. Maybe never will be. We can but try. On behalf of your companions I mean.
You are insulting A2K. As if the sort of discourse you are obviously addicted to will pass muster on a site catering for so many intelligent members as A2K does. Like you think you are talking to the feeble-minded.
Give me a reason why you expend so much emotional energy on attacking the Church which has nothing to do with sex and your personal needs and conveniences in regard to sex.
The vestments maybe. The incense. The display of dignity of human movement. (No small matter when there's so much undignified human movement). The music and what music it is. The architecture. You only need look at a good cathedral to see that there's an Apollo mission on the end of it. The paintings and statues. The receipts from tourism and from the millions of superstitious diddicos who voluntarily hand over their hard-earned money to help preserve the institution. The high-life styles of the dignitaries. Any of those reasons?
You can forget diddling little lads because the Church condemns it as much as anybody else. I think the Pope visited the US to sort the problem out. And you can forget the wars as well. Everybody does that to defend their mission and bringing peace to the earth is a mission worth fighting for unlike a mission to make fat-cat Americans a bit better off.
Even the jolly old Church of England, on announcing that it will allow homosexual bishops, after much debate lasting years, has insisted that any such bishops remain celibate. Obviously I laughed.
The nation has gone -- "Oh yeah!! Pull the other one squire!"
It's a higher level sophistry than you can manage though. Not by a lot mind you. It represents an admission that sexually active homosexuals remain prohibited and the simple fact that the C of E can't police them in their beds or on Clapham Common is where the plausibility falls down. I wasn't the only one who laughed. Which is understandable as it is so funny. Like you, they think they are addressing the kiddie-winks because they think they are themselves intelligent.
