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KJV-Only Fallacies: Special pleading
http://kjvonly-fallacies.blogspot.com/2011/06/special-pleading.html
There's a KJV-onlyist born every minute. Monday, June 27, 2011. Is an informal fallacy, in which the author attempts to exempt his own arguments from standards to which he holds his opponents. This may take various forms: for example, appealing to some irrelevant difference between his own arguments and his opponent's, or dismissing arguments or evidence that weakens his case. On May 21, 2011) and reinterpreted the evidence to maintain that he was right all along. Of course, not every exemption from the ...
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KJV-Only Fallacies: Ad Hominem (Tu Quoques)
http://kjvonly-fallacies.blogspot.com/2010/12/ad-hominem-tu-quoques.html
There's a KJV-onlyist born every minute. Saturday, December 4, 2010. Arguments are those that are directed against the person, rather than his points. We've already seen the most blatant form of ad hominem. Abuse Nearly as blatant is the tu quoques. Is Latin for "you're another." This fallacy dismisses another person's argument on the grounds that since he does the very thing he is arguing against. On the Bible Versions Discussion Board. Poster "DocCas" once posted the following:. The original discussion...
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KJV-Only Fallacies: Proof by "Monkey See, Monkey Do"
http://kjvonly-fallacies.blogspot.com/2011/07/proof-by-monkey-see-monkey-do.html
There's a KJV-onlyist born every minute. Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Proof by "Monkey See, Monkey Do". This is one of my favourite "goofy proofs" for KJV-onlyism (probably second only to proof by time travel. Because you see it fairly often, and it's almost always a source of fine unintentional comedy. Here's one of my favourite examples of "monkey see, monkey do." Several years ago on the BaptistBoard, a poster named "Swordsman" began a thread titled " Is the KJV of God or man? From heaven, or of men?
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KJV-Only Fallacies: Fallacy of Equivocation
http://kjvonly-fallacies.blogspot.com/2011/01/fallacy-of-equivocation.html
There's a KJV-onlyist born every minute. Wednesday, January 5, 2011. An author commits the. When he uses two or more definitions of a word interchangeably, as though they were identical. In syllogistic logic, the equivalent fallacy would be the. Fallacy of four terms. Puns work because they are deliberate uses of equivocation. In. Means either "serious" (in contrast to Mercutio's usual levity) or "burial plot" (because Mercutio will soon be dead). Known as "the Bible": the anthology of Jewish and Christi...
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KJV-Only Fallacies: Poisoning the well
http://kjvonly-fallacies.blogspot.com/2012/12/poisoning-well.html
There's a KJV-onlyist born every minute. Monday, December 10, 2012. The poisoning the well. Fallacy is a form of ad hominem. Argument: that is, it is directed against the person, rather than his arguments. Poisoning the well occurs when a debater attempts to bias the audience against his opponent by presenting negative, and probably unrelated, information about him. I frequent the conservative news/chat forum Free Republic. The Urban Legends Reference Pages; inevitably, someone. Do you have so little res...
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KJV-Only Fallacies: Proof by Theft
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There's a KJV-onlyist born every minute. Saturday, July 30, 2011. New Age religion is nothing, if not syncretistic! Obviously, this concept of "the Christ" is a far cry from the Jewish doctrine of Yahweh's anointed one, the Messiah ("Christ" is simply the Greek synonym for "Messiah"), or the Christian doctrine of Jesus Christ as Yahweh himself clothed in human flesh from his conception. New Ageism is full of "stolen" Christian jargon, repurposed to present Eastern pantheism to a Western audience. Ripling...
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KJV-Only Fallacies: Proof by Time Travel
http://kjvonly-fallacies.blogspot.com/2010/12/proof-by-time-travel.html
There's a KJV-onlyist born every minute. Friday, December 10, 2010. Proof by Time Travel. A few years ago, I started collecting a form of argument I called "Goofy Proofs": arguments that might "preach well" in the amen corner of a KJV-onlyist church, where you might find it repeated ad nauseam. But so obviously fragile that it falls apart at the slightest touch of critical examination. These are so plain silly, that they don't even rise to the level of logical fallacy. Be considered the Word of God.
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KJV-Only Fallacies: Doggedness
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There's a KJV-onlyist born every minute. Monday, July 18, 2011. But I am not stubborn in. Way, I hope: the bullheaded refusal to accept facts that militate against a position I hold. I would like to think I am intellectually honest enough to change my opinion when it is clear it has become untenable in light of the facts. Unfortunately, this is not so for everyone. Fact and an empirically testable one. When NASA engineers send probes to Mars, their calculations assume a heliocentric (i.e. sun...I see a s...
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KJV-Only Fallacies: Luke 2:33
http://kjvonly-fallacies.blogspot.com/2010/12/luke-233.html
There's a KJV-onlyist born every minute. Friday, December 31, 2010. Today I'm starting a new category on this blog: "inept exegesis." I'll be using this category to discuss the legion of biblical passages that are abused by KJV-only advocates to prove that modern versions are corrupted and guilty of teaching false doctrine. (Sometime in the future I'll be starting a related category, "eisegesis," to cover texts abused. The KJV to prove that KJV-onlyism is actually taught in the Bible.). There, you see?
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KJV-Only Fallacies: Quote mining
http://kjvonly-fallacies.blogspot.com/2011/07/quote-mining.html
There's a KJV-onlyist born every minute. Saturday, July 23, 2011. Or the fallacy of quoting out of context, occurs when an author selectively quotes a passage, in such a way that he distorts its original meaning to create an authority favourable to his argument. Quote mining might result in a number of fallacies:. Because they can misrepresent an argument the author is opposed to;. Because they give the false impression that a secondary source agrees with the author when he may not; or. After mature refl...
