3. TIL Hitchens's Razor: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed wi...

TIL Hitchens's Razor: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence," a dictum coined by antitheist Christopher Hitchens.

Wow you suck at debate. It's like you try to win by annoying the other person and being ignorant about what's really happening. This is like talking to a child.

Somebody else made wildly irrelevant accusations. I pointed out that they were irrelevant, because no body made them. There was no debate.

ignoring actual christian teachings and replacing them with nonsense

Citation needed? Like, are you sure you meant to respond to me? What Christian teachings?

Claiming we don't know christian logic while you yourself are ignoring it as well.

What? Again, someone else, maybe? What's "Christian logic?" How did I ignore it?

Then you dismiss any rebuttal by saying you aren't interested with argument.

Rebutting WHAT!?

I made two claims -- The citation of Deuteronomy as such was absurd. (Why is made clear by my first two questions. Christians are racist because Israelites killed pagan? An indefensible non-sequitor!)

I'm not interested in arguing.

And seriously, I'm not. The humor in this, and why I replied in the first place, was this TIL thread is about how we respond to audacious claims. You claimed that Christians have a loophole by which they just ignore their holy book. No evidence provided. No example given. No inquiry as to how it's their holy book if it's ignored. Just a wild, baseless claim, which is just as quickly dismissed.

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