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To: Mr Rogers
The "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
8 posted on 08/18/2009 6:41:25 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
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To: steve-b

Wrong. Being an evangelical is ALL about what you believe, and who you believe in.

It also has a different start date than birth - so one friend of mine who divorced twice before becoming a Christian would be counted as a ‘twice-divorced evangelical’.

Being a Scot only involves where you were born.


18 posted on 08/18/2009 7:00:24 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
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To: steve-b

Thanks. As a 50% true Scotsman I appreciated that link.


27 posted on 08/18/2009 7:38:05 AM PDT by ColoCdn (Neco eos omnes, Deus suos agnoset)
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To: steve-b

I can’t see how “No True Scotsman” applies.

Is a pedophile priest a “true” priest ? Not hardly, he’s breaking several solemn vows. Hardly “true”, at least to his word.

Is a “Mormon” governor who supports abortion and homosexual “marriage” a “true” Mormon ? Not hardly, as his church teaches that both those things are abominations - the first, murder, and the second, a grievous sin.

I wouldn’t call the first a Catholic, or the second a Mormon. If I call myself a car, that doesn’t make it true.


28 posted on 08/18/2009 7:47:52 AM PDT by jimt
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