I am still baffled that people, particularly so-called Christians still use ad hominem or personal attacks to discredit their opponent’s doctrine, or what they say. Even as a boy, I noticed the religious leaders doing this to Jesus (who is your father?) and politicians doing it to each other. Maybe some Christians think politicians are good examples for how to argue for the truth, and that is why they imitate them?

Just because my math teacher looks at porn, or is a glutton or steals clothes, does not mean when he teaches me 2 + 2 = 4, that it is false, and that I should not listen to him in class when he teaches math. The stupidity of a personal attack in this example is easy to see, but for some reason I see many Christians employ such arguments constantly. This is particularly the case with critiques against faith teachers. “Beware of such a person, they did “x” or in their past they did “y.”” Seriously, why would I care, in context of their teaching a doctrine? Is this supposed to be an argument against their teaching of faith from Matthew 21:21-22? I find it insulting they think I am stupid enough to think this is a good argument.

Jesus told the man that He healed at Bethesda, “do not sin, or something worse will happen.” What if the man did not stop sinning, and his sickness returned with greater force? Imagine the religious leaders finding him crawling on the ground and then using this as an example to say, “Jesus’ healings are fake,” and “Jesus is cruel for giving false hope to very sick people. Look, here is evidence God’s will is sometimes for us to be sick.” Yet, this is exactly the stupid reasoning they give to discredit the doctrine preached by the faith teachers.

Imagine a person telling their neighbor back in history, “king David committed adultery and murdered a man, and so he is a fu@#$ing hypocrite. He does not know his face from his as@#$ when talking about obeying God, therefore, do not read David’s Psalms. His Psalms are false because he did x and y. When he talks about obeying God’s commands, just ignore these commands, because David does not know or understand what he is talking about.”

Why are people so intellectually defective as to think personal attacks have any logical relevance to doctrine or truth? How can people be this insanely blind?