{"id":7736,"date":"2010-09-01T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evangelical-fallacies"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:37:36","slug":"evangelical-fallacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/2010\/09\/01\/evangelical-fallacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelical Fallacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disambiguation and the construct of Poor Arguments<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever gotten more upset with the guy trying to argue your side than the guy arguing against you, just because your ally\u2019s arguments were so poorly backed or constructed? <\/p>\n<p>I am against poor logic\u2013in arguments, in people, in life. Correcting logical errors and fallacies just takes too much energy. I would rather someone not be persuaded of the truth, than be persuaded by the wrong argument for the wrong reasons. <\/p>\n<p>I dislike evangelical fallacies\u2013they disgust me and make tired beyond all weariness. I cannot say that evangelism is bad, or that some of the truths conveyed by it are bad, but how can I support something that has no logical foundation or reasonable substance? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cApologetical evangelism\u201d is a great relief in a world of emotion-based arguments. It\u2019s all sickening, to witness what is taking place around me and to explain.<\/p>\n<p>#2010 #Personal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disambiguation and the construct of Poor Arguments Have you ever gotten more upset with the guy trying to argue your side than the guy arguing against you, just because your ally\u2019s arguments were so poorly backed or constructed? I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[817,450],"tags":[828],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prnci","category-2015-check-ins-and-before","tag-tag-reflections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24301,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions\/24301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}