Category:Initialized arguments
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- According to biblical accounts, God is jealous and can get angry.
- According to the Bible, man alone possesses free will, and with it the ability to do evil.
- According to the verses, the earth is permanent (Ecclesiastes 1:4) or will perish in flames (Peter 3:10).
- All human rights NGOs point to the existence of a racist double standard, so it's hard to deny in good faith
- Among those co-responsible for the migratory crisis is a certain Vincent Bolloré.
- An argument from authority is not proof
- Animals undergo suffering other than devouring without human intervention.
- Anti-racist activists are also anti-capitalists
- Argument test 2
- Argumentative mille-feuille
- Arguments in favor of the existence of God are just as much in favor of the existence of parody religions.
- As long as we're not personally affected, we're not going to change anything.
- Assertion without argument
- At no point does the flood story explain why God destroys all the animals not on the ark, when it's only man he's after.
- Atheists claim that the universe before the Planck Wall is impossible to describe, not that it came out of "nothing".
- Atheists have never claimed that the laws of physics are self-forming or that energy needs no incidental cause.
- Atonement for a sin has always been the motive for massacring the innocent
- Austerity requires
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- Can God create a stone he can't lift?
- Capitalism is responsible for the misery, violence and instability of the so-called "Third World".
- Capitalism was built on slavery, child labor, theft and pillage
- Capitalism was built on the blood and sweat of millions of enslaved Africans
- Chance is a complex set of causes, so it's not improbable.
- Concern about problematic aspects of Islam is a front for Islamophobic attacks
- Consciousness is not clearly defined
- Considering paranormal phenomena as real does not prove the existence of God
- Content demonizing anti-immigrants is increasingly marginalized
- Creationists denied the existence of dinosaurs for a long time, then turned around when they became fashionable.
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- Dating methods are far more reliable than a mythological story written by men and distorted by successive translations and rewritings.
- Defenders of far-right ideology include former right-wing parties, which are inherently pro-bourgeois.
- Defining right and wrong are the pillars of religious belief
- Demographic decline is good for ecology
- Denial of chance is a cognitive bias
- Depending on the verse, God advocates human sacrifice (Judges 11:30-31 and Judges 11:29-34) or prohibition (Leviticus 18:21).
- Depending on the verse, God is either all-powerful (Matthew 19:26) or not (Judges 1:19).
- Depending on the verse, God's face was seen by someone (Genesis 32:30) or by no one (John 1:18).
- Depending on the verse, there is a holy day (Exodus 20:8) or no day to be considered superior to others (Romans 14:5).
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- Europe does not have a monopoly on racism
- Europe tends to curb immigration, even if it means collaborating with tyrants
- Europe's aberrant and suicidal economic policies
- Even if matter is no longer represented as it was in the classical age, this does not mean that it was created by God.
- Even if migrant unemployment is high, it's not high enough to offset the benefits.
- Even if the phenomenon has a divine origin, the deities to whom these transcendences are attributed vary.
- Every religion has a different explanation for the origin of life
- Evil can lead to the worst horrors
- Expressing ourselves on social networks can be enough to put us in mortal danger
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- Facebook is complicit in genocide
- Faith is just a cognitive mechanism
- False dilemma
- Far-right populists condone anti-migrant violence
- Fdesouche does cherry picking
- Fdesouche is far from being the only source of information for the ultra-right.
- Fear of God's judgment is the cornerstone of Christian morality
- Fear of losing one's culture is a breeding ground for racism
- Femonationalists claim to defend women, but spit on all measures to combat sexism
- Femonationalists have no problem with Western sexism
- Forbidden to buy directly
- France has kept the Chadian dictator Idriss Déby in place to safeguard its interests there.
- France has no problem trampling on the ECHR out of pure Islamophobia
- Fulfilled" prophecies are merely reinterpretations of prophecies in the light of current events.
- Fulfilled" prophecies only reflect our cognitive biases
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- Generalization
- Given the dimensions indicated in the flood account, it is highly unlikely that the ark could have floated.
- Given the living conditions inside the ark, the animals wouldn't have survived very long.
- God considers Noah to be "just and honest", even though the 10 Commandments - or Christian morality - do not yet exist.
- God doesn't give people the freedom not to believe, since he punishes unbelievers.
- God is described as all-powerful, but paradoxically endowed with typically human flaws.
- God is precisely defined by the being that is by itself, and is therefore its own cause: existence itself.
- God is supposed to be omnipotent
- God is supposed to be omniscient
- God is supposed to be the creator of all things, which contradicts human freedom.
- God is used to deny the evolution of species, so he can't be the cause.
- God's alleged incomprehensibility is just a way of dealing with the incoherence of religious explanations.
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- He seizes full power
- High immigration will always drive the electorate into the arms of populism
- Homonationalists have no problem with the homophobia of non-Muslims
- How to prove something that doesn't exist
- Human freedom" as we observe it can perfectly well be seen as the result of biological and social forces alone.
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- If all religions said the same thing, there would be no point in having multiple religions.
- If taxes are too high, only the rich can fly
- If Trump had really been ousted for ideological reasons, his ouster would have come much sooner
- IMEs show the existence of an invisible reality in our ordinary state
- Immigration issues are big sellers, so it's in the media's interest to propagate them as much as possible.
- Impossible, that presupposes a god in two times: that of creation and that of profit, but god is not in time.
- In essence, existence implies temporality
- In felines, coitus is torture for the female
- In some species, biting without necessarily killing is a means of dominance.
- In the end
- In the historical sciences, assertions are based on evidence, not on hypotheses based on empty space.
- Insufficient understanding of a phenomenon
- Intentionality bias
- Inventing a new interpretation of an expression to maintain a semblance of coherence in an argument is a post-hoc argument.
- It just proves a universal need to believe in a higher entity, not its existence.
- It was thanks to the USA that Pinochet seized power in a coup d'état that killed the democratically elected leader.
- It's all too easy to twist biblical accounts to cover up inconsistencies.
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- Made-up stories
- Man's self-determination contradicts God's omniscience
- Many animals appeared or disappeared long before man appeared on earth, which contradicts the argument of aesthetic utility for man.
- Many children also report IMEs, so we can't accuse them of trying to "sell" something.
- Many cosmological models postulate that the universe did not have an absolute beginning, and was therefore not created by God.
- Many renowned scientists confess their perplexity and tend towards a spiritualist vision of the universe in the face of contemporary discoveries.
- Mathematics was created to describe reality, hence its coincidence
- Migrant aid associations report discriminatory treatment
- Migrants are only treated well when they come from Ukraine
- Morality independent of men does not prove the existence of God (Appeal to ignorance)
- Morals may differ among followers of the same religion
- Most Christians do not believe in reincarnation
- Most experimenters have tucked away their experience for years and haven't benefited from it.
- Muslims tend to become radicalized and violent in their religious intolerance
- Mysterious God
- Mystical experiences are misinterpretations of what we perceive.
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- National identity is a dangerous populist fantasy
- NATO allowed the semi-authoritarian Greece of 1952 to become the dictatorship of the colonels between 1967 and 1974.
- NATO countries supported Putin when his actions served their interests
- NATO's "democracies" had no problem with Putin's dictatorial methods when they served their interests.
- Nature is merely the product of physical and biochemical mechanisms
- Nature is too well-made not to have been created by God
- News stories about assaults by people of foreign origin sell well, so it's in the interests of the mainstream media to highlight them.
- Non sequitur
- Normalizes flying, in an insufficient response to climate emergency
- Nothing can exist outside space and time
- Nothing makes these people credible: they may be mistaken, or even lie.
- Nothing shows that a god exists
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- Official history
- On the contrary, scientific experiments on the subject contradict certain testimonies.
- Other systems than Air Quotas like taxes and traffic caps also incentivise ailines to reduce CO2 emissions
- Out-of-body people don't see anything they didn't see in their conscious state.
- Out-of-body" experiences are caused by brain damage
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- Parapsychology laboratories are contested in the scientific community
- Police are fascists
- Police protect citizens
- Police violence is not a blunder but a normal part of police work.
- Population growth no longer necessary
- Presenting the ultra-right as anti-capitalist and anti-globalist is a sham
- Prone to fraud
- Putin was the main sponsor of MLP's election campaigns
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- Sade's hypothesis is more provocative than theologically validated
- Sartre's existentialists believe in freedom and deny the existence of God
- Science has never claimed to have all the answers.
- Share the sky
- Signs" are merely anodyne events interpreted in hindsight as warnings.
- Since God is all-powerful, there's no reason why he can't be evil and unjust.
- Since God is seen as proof of the non-existence of evolution, he cannot serve as an explanation for it.
- Some believers think they have proof of God's existence
- Some biblical accounts mention unjust animal suffering
- Some civilizations have never known religion
- Some religions say that our fate after death is independent of what we did while we were alive.
- Some religions, such as Buddhism, have no deities.
- Some things that were once thought to be beyond scientific explanation have become so.
- Sovereignism is a front for nationalists who don't take responsibility for themselves
- Species are more the result of tinkering than perfection
- Speculative science is not real science
- Studies purporting to prove the existence of the paranormal are biased, even fraudulent
- Subjective term
- Such concepts have more to do with new-age belief than scientific rigor.
- Sudden conversions are simply a product of our emotional state.
- Suppressing emigration doesn't prevent migration
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- Taxes can be effective in reducing air traffic if they are high enough
- That Noah and his family built the ark in such a short space of time is just as unlikely as the fact that they called on additional manpower.
- The "missing link" myth stems from a misunderstanding of evolutionism
- The 6% annual reduction in the carbon money distributed to Europeans ensures that airlines cannot exceed this constantly shrinking volume
- The argument is circular, because to be perfect, you have to be
- The biblical accounts are consistent with the paucity of human knowledge at the time they were written.
- The bourgeoisie is a historic ally of identitarians
- The Canal group is owned by a billionaire and relays the anti-migrant rhetoric of the far right.
- The concept of a single God is recent on the scale of human history.
- The concepts of omniscience and omnipotence are mutually incompatible
- The content of sacred texts varies enormously from one religion to another
- The contents of sacred texts have varied over time
- The criminalization of migration fuels human trafficking
- The criteria for defining a biased argument are defined by zetetics, which is the science of critical thinking.
- The definition of God in this debate implies no morality (Straw Man)
- The dominant media discourse is anti-immigration
- The economic benefits of immigration can be measured in GDP
- The effects of a belief do not distort it.
- The employers tend to demonize immigration in order to divert attention from anti-social measures.
- The European Union wages war on migrants
- The exact nature of the animals to be loaded into the ark varies from verse to verse.
- The fact that a prayer is followed by effect in no way proves that it is responsible.
- The fact that everything has a reason to exist doesn't prove that God is that same reason.
- The far right exaggerates the media importance of its opponents in order to victimize itself.
- The far right has no interest in tackling the causes of migration
- The far right is itself partly responsible for the migration crisis
- The far-right's proposals to curb immigration are cruel and ineffective, and therefore racist.
- The fight against the extreme right is often misused as a useful tool for globalization.
- The financing of the Democratic Party by the money powers is a blight on Democratic voters themselves.
- The First Cause is the Hindu Brahman, self-conscious and indifferent to humans.