Category: Fallacy

  • The Christian Sabbath and an Example of the Lexical Fallacy – Acts 20:7

    I was sad to see someone engaging in a classical lexical fallacy over at the PuritanBoard (link). I don’t know whether the moderators there will leave it up (they have been diligent in the past about eliminating misleading posts), so let me summarize the argument the person posting uses: 1) Acts 20:7 is translated in…

  • Long on Fallacies – Short on Rebuttal

    Mr. Bellisario (editor of Catholic Champion) has provided a response (link) to my earlier article (link) exposing the errors in his video (link). Logical Fallacies a) Ad Hominem MB describes me as “the man who is afraid to use his real name.” This is about the only ad hominem that can be applied to an…

  • Where’s the Catholic Church?

    Richard (aka “Mary’s Son”) provides us with an example of two logical fallacies in one (source): Richard writes: “You can say Roman all you want to try to confuse the term Catholic; but go out on any street in the world and ask for directions to the nearest Catholic church: you’re not going to end…