Category: Critical thinking

Fallacies 1: The sharpshooter fallacy

The Sharpshooter fallacy is a favourite of psychic con-artists, mediums, faith-healers, religious scammers and many more. Those who knowingly employ this fallacious argument cannot be trusted.

The God free guide is about critical thinking as well as counter-apologetics. This short video is the first of a series outlining logical fallacies. This one is the Sharpshooter fallacy (AKA Cherry picking). It’s a favourite of psychic scammers, mediums, faith-healers, religious scammers and many more. It works because we’re evolved to be pattern-seekers. The sharpshooter fallacy takes advantage of that and those who knowingly employ this fallacious argument cannot be trusted.

Fallacies 1: The sharpshooter fallacy

Challenging the ‘Cumbria preacher’

Dale is a street preacher from my hometown. He’s the man who threatened a 13 year old autistic boy with damnation to Hell!
This video contains my challenge to Dale, If you’re so sure of yourself then come and debate me.

Dale is a street preacher from my hometown. He’s the man who threatened a 13 year old autistic boy with damnation to Hell! This video contains my challenge to Dale, If you’re so sure of yourself then come and debate me. We can both record it and both reserve the right to publish it unedited. We both get to speak through a microphone – not just one of us – and we both get to speak without our voices being drowned out by the other.person.

I’ll be linking this video in the comments there so he sees my challenge.

Dale, you can reach me via a YouTube comment or by commenting on my blog at http://www.TheGodFreeGuide.com

Ego, ethno, exo

This immature, egocentric, childish God craves constant attention. It needs constant praise and perpetual worship as reassurance that it is loved.

It’s possible to understand an individual’s maturity by their attitude towards others. Babies are egocentric, children adolescents, xenophobes and racists are ethnocentric and truly mature individuals are exocentric.

The immature, egocentric child craves constant attention. It needs constant praise and perpetual reassurance that it is loved.

Thou shalt have no other Gods before me!

Thou shalt love the Lord, your God with all your heart!

The God of Abraham, of Jews, Christians and Muslims is an immature child. It is less mature in its morality, its ethics and its perception of others than the warmongering, bronze age nomads who invented it.

Blasphemous shorts: The problem with faith

There’s a real problem with #faith in #Christianity but that’s not the only issue. Self-censorship is the underlying problem.

There’s a real problem with #faith in #Christianity but that’s not the only issue. Self-censorship is the underlying problem.

Chicken or egg?

Come on then, Col… Let’s ‘ave yer!

An old mate of mine challenged me yesterday to make a video which, I think I correctly discerned was a challenge to evolutionary theory. It’s difficult to be sure because all he said was “chicken or egg” in a thread that had nothing to do with evolution and when I suggested that’s what he meant he replied only “do it”.

I’m pretty sure he’s just trolling. I suspect he’s not really a creationist but hey ho, I may be wrong. The deal is we debate it next Sunday.

My suggestion is via zoom with both recording it and both free to publish, unedited wherever we like. 6pm OK for you, Col?

Chicken or egg?

Mark Spence’s Trans travesty

This isn’t just a dishonest argument, it’s fundamentally idiotic!

Mark Spence is part of Ray “Banana man” Comfort’s ‘Living Waters’ ministry. And like the big banana himself, Spence is no stranger to non-sequitors and false equivocation. In truth, it’s hard to list the deceptive strategies Spence uses in this awful expose of his own bigotry. But, in the time-honoured tradition of response videos everywhere, I’ll giver it a go.

A Stoic guide for mental health

This video summarizes the basics without any need for ghosts, Gods or ghoulies!

Christianity promised to teach me how to be contented in any circumstance. The church, its people and its mythical God broke that promise.

I’ve spent decades since working out how to live peacefully, happily and well. This video summarizes the basics without any need for ghosts, Gods or ghoulies!

Enjoy

You’re irrational… and so am I

All humans are irrational. We evolved that way.

All humans are irrational. We evolved that way.

If we hadn’t developed these tendencies to be irrational it’s doubtful that our species would ever have made it off the African Savannah. Actually it’s doubtful that we’d have evolved beyond some earlier species of quadruped, let alone primate or hominid.

But if we’re irrational, what on earth can we do about it? Click the link to find out!

Why The God free guide?

40 years ago I was approached by Christians. It was an unhappy time for me – I was 17 and had just split up with my first real love. I was desperate to feel a sense of belonging. In other words, I was ripe for harvest. The bastards got me.

Ten years later, having accepted young earth creationism, the inferiority of women and the bigotry of Christian homophobia to name just three of the travesties I accepted, I found myself reviewing it all. And once I allowed myself to think critically again the whole thing came crashing down – and so did my sense of self.

Christianity promised me a better life but all it really did was screw me up. This channel aims to help others avoid that trap with a blend of counter-apologetics, critical thinking skills and an alternative set of principles for a happy life – ones that actually work this time.

This stuff has been 30 years in the making so far. I hope you find it helpful.

Subscribe to the video channel or find my blog at http://www.TheGodfreeguide.com