In class, somehow the subject of logical fallacies have come up - Red Herring, Ad Hominum, Slippery Slope, Straw Man, etc. I don't know who or how many people from class might read this, but if you do, or if any of my other ardent readers are interested, at about 7 minutes in this video, Peter Hitchens gives a great example, by employing the straw man. It's a straw man because he has taken it upon himself to assume that lack of religion = lack of morality, a position that his brother, Christopher Hitchens, specifically refuted in his opening statements 7 minutes before. What makes it a Straw Man is that Peter sets up this position, implying that this is the true atheist's position, and then goes, "Now can't you see this is what we don't want?"
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