Why Young Christians are Leaving the Church

What fallacy is it when the wrongful use of a word by a large group of people is taken as the proper meaning?

What fallacy is it to take the words of someone who is passingly informed about a subject to one who is a doctor of that subject?

As I said, saying The Truth doesn't exist is a stupid and self defeating position, and that is what atheism toward my God means.

"capitalized : the supreme or ultimate reality"

That's not what you mean because you know it makes your position stupid.

So what do you do? You debate people who don't really understand theology and shrink away when someone who does tells you that you've been debating superstition of God rather than God.

You are committing the fallacy of appeal to motive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_motive

Critical thinking alone will get you to truth about as well as tying a bunch of bottle rockets together to construct a space shuttle to the moon.

Critical thinking without a love of the truth will simply lead you to reject everything, which actually takes about as much intelligence and thought as believing eveything.

I think you are confusing critical thinking with skepticism. Critical thinking is a method for evaluating information in order to make rational, objective judgements about what to believe.

But the actual number of Christians in the world is growing, not declining.

“Learning about evolution when I went away to college”

“Religion is the opiate of the people”

“Rational thought makes religion go out the window”

“Lack of any sort of scientific or specific evidence of a creator”

“I just realized somewhere along the line that I didn’t really believe it”

“I’m doing a lot more learning, studying and kind of making decisions myself rather than listening to someone else.”

Do you think that clear standards of evidence and skepticism are prerequisite to what you call critical thinking?

Also, do you really believe that humans can make "objective judgments"?

“I’m doing a lot more learning, studying and kind of making decisions myself rather than listening to someone else.”

Exactly. It is just a crying shame the mopacs of the world can't force themselves to do the same.

Do you think that clear standards of evidence and skepticism are prerequisite to what you call critical thinking?

I wouldn't call them prerequisites. Components, rather.

Also, do you really believe that humans can make "objective judgments"?

Yes.

I don't mean to suggest that people are able to be truly objective. But, by applying logic and reason, one can make the same judgement that would be made if one were truly objective.

How do you quantify the gap between a sort-of-objective statement and a "truly objective" statement?

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