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=Straw Man=
=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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