David Klinghoffer, in one of many gobsmackingly stupid essays:
…[W]hen Muslims today commit mass slaughter in the name of their religion, or when Christians once did so, it becomes reasonable on that basis to ask probing questions about the truth of Islam or Christianity.
NO. IT. DOESN’T. YOU. FUCKING. IDIOT. Presumably, someone with a background in theology has at least a peripheral background in rhetoric and exposition, and would be rather familiar the fallacious nature of appeals to unwanted consequences. The truth of Christianity, or Islam, or any field of natural, social or formal science depends on the discernible accuracy of the statements made within the theory. The difficulty Klinghoffer has is simply that he cannot see how description is semantically non-isomorphic to prescription. He harbors religious certainty because of his personal comfort with its logical consequences, not because such certainty is compelled by objective reasoning. Like his IDeological compadre Leroy, he simply assumes everyone else must do the same.
