People do take those passages seriously. We can’t and shouldn’t adjust our speech to avoid dumb people being as dumb as they were already planning to be.
Right, but if we’re already using a “Gotcha”, and it’s…not really as much of a “Gotcha” as we think it is…then i’m basically just saying we gotta have arguments that work on the people we’re talking to, not ourselves
Like if anything we’re adjusting our speech to make the argument…that is going to have people perfectly willing to latch onto it seriously.
I understand they’re being ironic, i’m pointing out that they could attract the unironic
If you know there’s people who will use Genesis 8 against climate change, you know there’s people who will take other passages seriously.
People do take those passages seriously. We can’t and shouldn’t adjust our speech to avoid dumb people being as dumb as they were already planning to be.
Right, but if we’re already using a “Gotcha”, and it’s…not really as much of a “Gotcha” as we think it is…then i’m basically just saying we gotta have arguments that work on the people we’re talking to, not ourselves
Like if anything we’re adjusting our speech to make the argument…that is going to have people perfectly willing to latch onto it seriously.