Ethics

Dumbest Analogy Ever?

By Ed Brayton

The perpetually ridiculous Vox Day offers this little gem, which I reprint for your amusement, in an article about how atheism leads to slaughters and massacres:

Atheists such as Richard Dawkins inevitably attempt to defend their non-faith, if not the actions of their historical predecessors, by claiming that historical actions such as the Vendée massacres were not committed in the name of atheism. But this is an absurd and inept attempt at a defense. Any thinking individual would laugh at a similarly illogical claim that Marlboro's can't cause cancer because no smoker lights up in the name of Marlboro.

That may be the single most idiotic analogy I've ever seen. Then he writes this:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 01, 2009 (boomark / email).