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  • 00:07

    On the 23rd of April, 2007, Bill O’Reilly, on his show, The O’Reilly Factor, Interviewed

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    Richard Dawkins, and within just four minutes he committed over 7 logical fallacies and

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    made the infamous assertion that he knows that his god exists because ‘it’s true

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    for him’.

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    “Well, it’s true for me!”

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    Now, while I’m late to this party, I always knew that one day I’d have to comment on

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    it, because within it, O’Reilly was so pathetic that he made even the most exaggerated comedic

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    representations of his creed seem mild – such as this hilarious one: “Several million

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    years for a monkey to turn into a man?

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    Oh wait, that's right, monkeys don't live several million years!”

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    Haha…

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    Without further ado, this, is It’s True For Me – Debunked.

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    “In the personal story segment tonight, do you believe in God?

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    Increasingly fewer Americans do.”

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    “According to a Zuckerman study, in Sweden as many as 85% of the population are nonbelievers,

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    Japan 65%, France 54%, and in Britain 44% do not believe in God – in Great Brittan!”

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    “Wow.”

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    “With us now is a man who understands that position, Richard Dawkins, the author of the

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    mega-selling book, The God Delusion.”

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    You lucky you git, Billy, I got to shake his hand earlier this month at the Hammersmith

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    Theatre, but you got to interview him!

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    “I think it takes more faith to be like you, an atheist, than like me, a believer,

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    and it’s because of nature.”

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    Sigh… and so here’s where it begins – with literally his first sentence to Dawkins – this

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    is either an Equivocation Fallacy, or it’s utterly disingenuous.

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    He’s either equivocating a colloquial definition of the word ‘faith’ (that being one that’s

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    a synonym of ‘trust’) with the religious definition of ‘faith’ (which is belief

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    without sufficient evidence, and often in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary);

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    or, he’s implicitly asserting that atheists have faith that his god does not exist in

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    the same way that he has faith that his god does exist, which is patently absurd, and

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    simply not true…

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    “You know, I just don’t think we could have lucked out to have the tides come in,

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    the tides go out, the sun go up, the sun go down.

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    Don’t think it could have happened.”

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    And O’Reilly’s second sentence to Dawkins is a perfect Argument from Personal Incredulity.

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    Reworded, he’s asserting that because he doesn’t personally understand tidal theory

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    and heliocentrism (the tides go in, the tides go out, never a miscommunication.

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    You, can’t explain that!), both of these well-established scientific theories must

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    be wrong… which is just… pathetic!

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    Or, as Dawkins puts it: “We have a very full understanding of why the tides go in

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    and the tides go out, about why the continents drift about, of why life is there, science

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    is ever more piling on the evidence, piling on the understanding.”

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    “But it had to get there, I understand that, you know, the, uh, physiology of it, if you

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    will, but it had to come from somewhere.

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    And that is the leap of faith that you guys make.

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    That it just happened.”

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    “That is just happened.”

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    And O’Reilly’s third sentence to Dawkins is a damn Strawman Fallacy.

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    He’s deliberately misrepresenting atheism in order to make it easier to attack.

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    The truth of the matter is that because atheism only pertains to one position in relation

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    to one question, atheists do not necessarily share anything else in common – and this

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    includes their thoughts regarding the origin of the universe.

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    And as for the atheists that go under the banners of New Atheism, secularism, and humanism,

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    they too don’t believe that ‘it just happened’.

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    While they acknowledge the process of accretion for the formation of the planet, and the process

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    of natural selection for the diversity of life, when it comes to the question of where

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    exactly everything came from, their answer is ‘we don’t know’, because, we don’t

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    know, and unlike the religious, we’re not going to pretend that we do!

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    “A leap of faith?

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    You don’t actually need a leap of faith, you’re the one who needs a leap of faith,

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    because you are actually, the onus is on you to say why you believe in something.”

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    Yeah, you tell him Dawkins, the Burden of Proof is on him – because he is the one

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    making the assertion!

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    “There’s an infinite number of gods you could believe in – I take it you don’t

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    believe in Zeus or Apollo or Thor, you believe in presumably the…”

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    “Jesus!

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    Jesus was a real guy, I could see him.

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    You know, I know what he did, and so, I’m not positive that Jesus is god, but I’m

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    throwing in with Jesus rather than throwing in with you guys, because you guys can’t

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    tell me how it all got here.

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    You guys don’t know!”

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    “We’re working on it.”

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    “Well when you get it, then maybe I’ll listen.”

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    … Honestly, this really is borderline comical, isn’t it?

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    I mean, is O’Reilly really this stupid?

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    By saying that his neutral position is to believe that Jesus is god until someone can

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    prove that Jesus is not god, he’s both attempted to Shift the Burden of Proof and he’s made

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    a subtle Argument from Ignorance…

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    In essence, he’s asserted that ‘we don’t know X (which in this case is the origin of

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    the universe), therefore Y (which in this case is his very specific interpretation of

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    his very specific god).

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    It’s pathetic, and it’s the equivalent of Dawkins asserting that Zeus is god because

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    ‘you guys can’t tell me how it all got here.

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    You guys don’t know!’

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    “Well, no, I mean, if you look at the history of science over the centuries, the amount

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    that’s gained in knowledge each century is stupendous.

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    In the beginning of the 21st century, we don’t know everything, we have to be humble, we

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    have to, in humility’s sake, say that there’s a lot that we still don’t know.”

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    “You know, being humble is a Christian virtue?”

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    Haha, you should give it a go some time, Billy.

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    “Alright, well when you guys figure it out, you come back here and tell me, because until

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    that time, I’m sticking with Judeo-Christian philosophy and my religion of Roman Catholicism

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    because it helps me as a person.”

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    “Oh, that’s different, if it helps you as a person that’s great, but it doesn’t

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    mean it’s true.”

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    “Well, it’s true for me.

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    True for me.”

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    And this, ladies and gentleman, brings us to the crux of this video – the assertion

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    that O’Reilly’s god exists because it’s true for him – “It’s true for me.”

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    Now, before I take on this claim, it should be said that most of those who utter these

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    words do so as a form of rhetoric – they’re not really asserting that their god exists

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    because it’s true for them, but rather, they’re simply conveying they’re convinced

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    that their god exists, albeit in an irritatingly vague way.

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    But in the case of those who mean it literally, such as O’Reilly, I honestly think that

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    the conversation is over, and that the appropriate response as a society is to ridicule such

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    people.

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    To put it bluntly, it simply has to become deeply embarrassing to make such a vacuous

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    argument… and do you know what?

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    In pretty much every other domain of discourse, it is!

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    For example, if I was to seriously tell you that the United States was responsible for

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    the collapse of the Roman Empire because it’s true for me, you’d laugh in my face… and

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    so you should!

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    Sometimes ridicule is the answer.

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    But to adequately address the underlining essence of this assertion, something is either

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    true or it is not, and this is the case independent of our being here to witness it.

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    All of science contests to this.

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    The idea that there are as many realities as there are beings to interpret reality is

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    bollocks!

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    It’s utterly unfounded, and it’s often the result of a disingenuous semantic black

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    hole.

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    It’s the position taken by people on their last legs – it’s a last resort.

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    Or as Dawkins graciously puts it: “You mean that true for you is different from true for

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    anybody else?

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    How can something be true for you?

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    Something’s got to be true or not.”

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    “No, no, I can’t prove to you that Jesus is god, and so that truth is mine, and mine

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    alone, but you can’t prove to me that Jesus is not, so you have to stay in your little…”

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    “You can’t prove that Zeus is not.”

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    And here we have another attempt from O’Reilly to Shift the Burden of Proof.

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    He’s straight-up telling Dawkins that unless he can prove that Jesus is not god, then Jesus

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    is god.

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    Honestly, this is absurd!

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    How on earth is this man respected as a news presenter?

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    “Now, we also differ in a sense that you feel that religion has been a bane (b, a,

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    n, e) to civilisation, and I feel atheism has.”

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    Oh… here we go…

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    “And I will point to the worst mass murders in, uh, modern times.

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    Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot – all confirmed atheists.

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    All people who wanted to wipe out religion.”

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    “Now I know that you can point to the Crusades and you can point to Al Qaeda right now, it’s

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    there and it’s no question, but I say, I’m throwing in with the founding fathers of the

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    United States which saw religion and spirituality as a moderating influence – as a good thing

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    if people embrace the true tenants.”

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    Sigh… now this is a great example of someone lighting so many fires so that their opponent

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    cannot possible put them all out within their time-constrained response, but to be honest,

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    Dawkins nevertheless did an outstanding job, and so I’m simply going to play his response

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    while depicting onscreen the fallacy that O’Reilly committed.

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    “The founding fathers of the United States were secularists above all.

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    Some of them were religious, some of them were not, but they were above all secularists

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    that believed in keeping church and state separate.”

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    “They Had to because of the oppression in Europe.”

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    “As for Hitler and Stalin and so on, of course, Hitler by the way was a roman Catholic."

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    "No, he never was.

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    He was raised in that home but he rejected it early on."

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    "We can dispute that.

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    Stalin was an atheist, no question, but Stalin did the bad things he did not because he was

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    atheist, I mean, Hitler and Stalin both had moustaches, but we don’t say it was their

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    moustaches that made them evil.”

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    “Haha, I don’t think they had any moral foundation, any of those guys.”

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    “I don’t either.”

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    “I will say, your book is fascinating, congratulations on your success, thanks a lot for coming on

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    in here.”

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    “Thank you very much indeed.”

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    So, to recap, within just 4 minutes belligerent Billy committed an Equivocation Fallacy, a

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    Personal Incredulity Fallacy, a Strawman Fallacy, a Shifting of the Burden of Proof Fallacy,

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    an Argument from Ignorance Fallacy, another Shifting of the Burden of Proof Fallacy, a

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    False Cause Fallacy, and he’s made one of the most pathetic arguments for the existence

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    of a god that I’ve ever heard…

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    “Well, it’s true me!”

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    “That's right, monkeys don't live several million years!”

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    Anyhow, as always, thank you kindly for the view, an extra special thank you to my generous

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    patrons, and an even extra special thank you to Jared, who very kindly donated a quality

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    microphone and stand to the channel, and so we’ve got him to thank for the improvement

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    of my audio – on behalf of us all, cheers Jared!

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Use "nonbelievers" in a sentence | "nonbelievers" example sentences

How to use "nonbelievers" in a sentence?

  • A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
    -Robert H. Schuller-
  • We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
    -Timothy Keller-
  • Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.
    -Basilea Schlink-
  • What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
    -Seth Godin-
  • Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.
    -George Marsden-
  • If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.
    -Richard Dawkins-
  • ...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
    -Ice T-
  • We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.
    -Barack Obama-

Definition and meaning of NONBELIEVERS

What does "nonbelievers mean?"

/ˌnänbəˈlēvər/

noun
person who does not believe in particular thing.

What are synonyms of "nonbelievers"?
Some common synonyms of "nonbelievers" are:
  • skeptic,
  • doubter,
  • unbeliever,
  • disbeliever,
  • cynic,
  • nihilist,
  • atheist,
  • nontheist,
  • agnostic,
  • freethinker,
  • libertine,
  • infidel,
  • pagan,
  • heathen,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.