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 =Straw Man=
-Attempts to counter a position by attacking a different position than the one his opponent actually holds, one that is easier to refute.
+The basic form of a strawman argument is:
+*Person 1 holds a specific belief.
+*Person 2 restates person 1’s position in a distorted way.
+*Person 2 attacks the distorted version of Person 1's belief.
+*Therefore, Person 1's belief is false.
+Person 2 attempts to argue against a belief by attacking a different position than the one his opponent actually holds - one that is easier to refute.
+An example of a person defending the message against criticisms raised on this website:
+::“''These people attacking the message would have you believe that you should go back to the harlot… back to the denominational slop you came out of''.”
+This is not the position of any message critic that I am aware of. The truth is simply that people in the message are following a false prophet and therefore are in error.  Where they go when and if they leave the message is a matter of prayerful consideration, and is inherently individual. By the way, equating all churches with harlots and slop for the simple fact that they belong to a denomination is also fallacious - in case common sense didn’t kick in automatically, as it should.
+Some examples of specific straw man arguments that we have encountered:
+*[[The_Trinity#William Branham's Critique of the Trinity|William Branham's Critique of the Trinity]]
+*[[Is God fair?|Argument against Christianity]]
-::“''These people attacking the message would have you believe that you should go back to the harlot… back to the denominational slop you come out of''.”
-This is not the position of any message critic that I am aware of. The truth is simply that people in the message are following a false prophet and therefore are in a false system. Where they go when they leave is a matter of prayerful consideration, and is inherently individual. By the way, equating all churches with harlots and slop for the simple fact that they belong to a denomination is also fallacious, in case common sense didn’t kick in there automatically, as it should.
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