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Genetic Fallacy - Response

Updated: Mar 4, 2021

You have to have "truth" or science, history, or anything we think we know disolves, including your statements. We couldn't make sense of right, wrong, good, or bad without truth. We all know that to say there is no truth is a self-defeating statement, because you're making a truth claim. Just like, to say there is no God is a truth claim. To convince anyone, you've got to offer arguments superior to those being debated. We could both be wrong, but I do my best to stay open-minded to the facts, and can agree to disagree. And, I personally don't think that reality is illusory. I believe that we can know certain things, even if they're just properly basic things. For example, "It's really, objectively morally wrong to commit murder." It's morally wrong regardless of what you were taught or society believes. It's objectively morally wrong because there is a moral lawgiver. Just saying it's a social contract is too subjectively weak in it's explanitory power and scope.

And we can have evidence for other things that help us form our beliefs. At bottom, how someone learns something or holds something as true is different than whether it's actually true or not. What you said is either true or false or has true and/or false parts. I have no good reasons for being an atheist, but many for believing in God. I've found nothing that you've said to be good evidence or compeling, so superior reasons compels me to believe in God.


That doesn't mean I think you're a bad person, I just think you have false beliefs. What I believe isn't based on how I came about believing it. It was true before I knew and the evidence lead me there. It could have been a cumulation of evidence: social, properly basic, conscience, spritual, and natural theology that brought me to my knowledge. The evidence is what weighs in favor of something being true or false, but it being true or false has no bearing on where or how you learned it.


That's the genetic fallacy.



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