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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
LOL. A bom apologist lecturing me about "methodology." The old big word dropping tactic. Personally, I don't know if religious people are more immoral than non-religious people. I have read studies that say the answer is at best inconclusive, and much depends on how you categorize Stalin and Hitler, as practicing secularism or a type of dogma and hence religion. I was simply resonding to Indy's clear insinuation that atheists used natural selection as a rationale to disclaim God with an ulterior motive, and citing a famously religious person (apparenlty often quoted in GC) to make the point that the case is not at all open and shut in favor of religious people. I simply employed a common rhetorical device, and unlike your FARMSy friends have never engaged in a pretense of being scientific or systematic.
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And here is his methodology. "You believe in the book of Mormon, ergo, your statements are not credible. Hitler and Stalin had religions, too, after all."