Wednesday 28 January 2009
I think we might have stumbled upon a new fallacy–call it argumentum ad Obamam. Here’s how it goes. Start from the premise that Obama is better than Jesus, then argue that any negative thing remotely linkable to him shows that he is not in fact the real Jesus after all–as omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent he would have stopped it!–and that maybe there is no Jesus, and that those who believed in Jesus were gullible fools, because all there exists there is evil. The NonSequitur ☀
