“Idiotic strawmen. Go buy yourself a clue”
Alright, I will buy a clue. Are you the strawman I should buy it from?
And by the way, claiming an argument is a strawman argument is not the same as SHOWING it to be so. I remain unimpressed, you present no proof, just innuendo.
Very well.
The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern:
Person A has position X. [Religious attacks have no place in this News/Activism forum]
Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X). [FC: "Truthfully, I think everyone who believes religion has NO place in politics should be banned, don’t you?"]
Person B attacks position Y [ FC: "Wouldn’t that be a de facto way of turning Free Republic into an atheist site?"].
Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed. [FC: "Or is that what you want?"]