Um, no. There is no fallacy, as the poster was merely trying to make a point about the fact that the Bible, as you admit, as not an encyclopaedic reference. The poster never said the Bible said masturbation was wrong, either, so the onus isn’t on the poster.
Not a fallacy? “Merely attempting” to make a point doesn’t have any bearing on whether someone commits a fallacy or not, fallacies are errors in logic and it can occur whether they are merely stating this, or merely stating that.
Not to mention it is also a complete contradiction because either the Bible is against it or not, so obviously both cannot be validated at the same time rendering the Bible true simultaneously.
Your personal opinion isn’t relevant. What the Church teachings - what God commands - is relevant.
Your opinion of my opinion isn’t relevant either. Like I said, it was my opinion, and since this is a forum I can post it as such as much as you can, this nit-picking is what is frankly irrelevant and probably shows that you’re attempting to instigate a reprisal because there’s nothing else you can apparently seem to attack.
Relevancy about Church teachings is in the eye of the beholder, it’s not an absolute, so frankly your statement is an opinion, therefore your personal opinion in regards to that isn’t relevant. We can do this back-and-forth if you wish, I have no problem in playing these games.
And now it’s your turn to commit a fallacy. “Speaking to many Priests” huh? Yeah, right. Firstly, this is simply the old “scientists say…” rubbish re-hashed in a Christian context. I would bet my savings you’ve actually not spoken to any Priests about this. “Hey Father, so, masturbation, gimme your opinion!”. Yeah right. Even if you have spoken to a Priest, I doubt you’ve spoken to many as you claim. But even if we accept your claim, so what? Some Priests say some very unusual things, some even say heretical things.
I suppose you are trying to pigeon-hole me and claim that I’m appealing to authority here when I’ve done no such thing. I never said “Because so many priests said this, this must be true” - it is also your turn to commit a fallacy here by constructing a strawman, since you can’t possibly know whether or not I’ve spoken to priests, or many for that matter, you constructing a false scenario based on your assumption is a strawman, and a fallacy. Well done! Talk about hypocrisy, and irony.
My actual point here was instead of having to listen to every pious Tom, Dick and Harry here on the forums, and listening to people claiming souls are going to hell for masturbating, it would set the record straight if people went and talked to priest(s) in real life, so that we don’t have to wade through this garble of **** reminiscing doomsday prophecies. Yes, priests have their own opinions too, and no one has to take what I said as true, they might have had different experiences, but that is by far the responses I’ve gotten when I’ve asked them, and in fact I’ve seen other forum members here posting that their priests have said this and that.
The beauty of the Church, and morality, is that opinions are of no consequence. You seem to think that following Church teaching makes one a “psuedo-Cardinal”. How ridiculous, and an ad hominem fallacy.
Another strawman, I never said anything of the sort. I said people here who take on the role of philosopher for everyone is akin to pseudo-Cardinals. Oh, it’s an “Ad-hominem” is it? Let me give you a crash course in a philosophy lesson. An ad-hominem would be a direct instigation in an argument towards an accused. Such as “you’re a moron, therefore you are wrong” - what I did, was rhetoric towards a large group of people in general, not specifically targeting anyone.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but your own statement regarding the “beauty of the church…rant, rant, rant” is a fallacy; appeal to authority, of course, whilst scrutinizing my post and trying to make fallacies that didn’t exist, appear, perhaps you should’ve be more careful of what you post. There’s no problem in following the Church, there is a problem when you hold an authority at one level and claim opinions are no consequence, it’s these kind of fallacious thoughts that eventually have led to the separation of Church and state, because you can’t be trusted, O.K?
Before you try and claim it’s not a fallacy, take note, your statement is the same as saying Church teachings are absolute, the Church made a teaching, therefore it’s correct. Which is a fallacy, the only way to render it as true is to prove Church teachings are absolute, considering this is not in the realm of empirical proof, this remains as it always has been in the realm of subjectivity.
Using your train of thought your entire post would be an ad-hominem, and it’s probably been closer to that than me claiming people are pseudo-Cardinals were.
Hey guys, insisting that 1+1=2 makes me a “psuedo-Mathematics PhD Professor” - but don’t worry, because it’s only my opinion!
What is this? Is this an attempt to make a joke? Could this be an “ad-hominem fallacy”? Could it also be ignoratio-elenchi a.k.a a red herring, perhaps it’s poisoning the well? I’ll let you work that one out.
I think this thread is a troll thread looking at the responses by the OP. I might be wrong, though.
Who cares, your personal opinion doesn’t matter, for all you know, you might be accusing the OP without any merit.
Lastly, if my opinion doesn’t matter, and if this is a troll-thread, then just stay clear, why bother matching your vast intellect with trolls and pseudo-mathematicians?
Yes, now accuse me of an ad-hominem.
Fail somewhere else.
since, well, the Bible was only composed after his death, and only settled as Canon (by so called fallible men!) almost 400 years after his death. Jesus left no writings or “Bible”. He left a Church.
- philosophy fail. I will continue to educate you if you don’t understand the distinction.