From non sequitur to God's dictatus
Two popular arguments against theism sound compelling at first but collapse under scrutiny. They fail not because they're poorly delivered, but because they're built on logical errors that no amount of wit can repair. 1. The Disagreement Fallacy (Non Sequitur) The Claim: Thousands of religions exist and contradict each other, therefore they must all be false. The Problem: This is a non sequitur. The conclusion doesn't follow from the premise. Disagreement about truth doesn't eliminate truth—it confirms that truth exists and that people are searching for it. Consider a math problem with ten different answers. Does this mean mathematics is fictional? No. It means nine people are wrong (possibly all ten). The existence of error doesn't negate the existence of correctness. This argument commits what we might call the "plurality fallacy"—assuming that because something is contested, it cannot be real. But objective truths are, by their nature, exclusive...
