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Shoesmith, who normally appears on Gallups program to complain about women, insisted that it was no coincidence that Hawking died just weeks after Billy Graham passed away, explaining that Grahams ministry really kicked off in 1942, which prompted the devil to use Hawking, who was born in 1942, to counter Grahams preaching.
[Graham] is a hundred percent devoted, Shoesmith said. The Lord sees his heart, gives him a tremendous ministry, and who do you think is sitting in the background going, I have to do something about this, this guy is sold out, I have to do something? Who do you think is sitting in the background doing that? The devil, right?
So, in 1942, that is when Billy Grahams ministry really takes off, and who do you think was born in 1942? he continued. Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking comes from a long line of atheistshis father and all these peopleso I believe the devil said, OK, this guy was just born and Im going to use this guy. This guy is already primed to accept my message that there is no God. He is already primed for it, he is going to be awash, immersed in atheism all his years as a child, Im going to take over this guys life.'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mike-shoesmith-i-believe-stephen-hawking-was-kept-alive-by-demonic-forces/
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)But it is not...
mvd
(65,148 posts)Boy there is a lot of crazy out there.
malaise
(267,823 posts)unless...
Initech
(99,915 posts)underpants
(182,279 posts)Iggo
(47,489 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Yeah there's people worse than that!
dalton99a
(81,070 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)PSHAW!
Insanity! Fucking, bonkers insanity!
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Sort of ad hoc ergo propter hoc, but not quite.
Mariana
(14,849 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)How ever will we be able to defend against them?
Mariana
(14,849 posts)It's the only explanation.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Anything that does not relate directly relate to evangelical interpretation of the bible is a "Daemonium Fallacy".
But since students have difficulty with Latin terms, we can substitute "Evangelical 'Splainin' Fallacy".
Initech
(99,915 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)For instance, if I say that Shoesmith is a fucking insult to all intelligent life in the universe, that is an ad hominem. But if Shoesmith proves my assertion to be absolutely true through his mad ravings, then doesn't the ad ignoramus cancel out my own logical fallacy?
Also, isn't a desperate exercise in futility to discuss "logic" in the context of RWNJs?
Initech
(99,915 posts)But yes trying to decipher the logic of right wing nut jobs would certainly make one's head explode!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Made up fallacies are the only ones applicable to weird RWNJ pseudo chrisitan (but more like Marllyn Manson acid trip) conspiracy stories.
CelticWinter
(1,399 posts)if they only knew how stupid they sound.
Celtic