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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ela_eluwa120" data-source="post: 10867551" data-attributes="member: 193664">Let me extract your argument from your replies.1. God is an extraordinary thing.2. Men with 80,000 years of life time are extraordinary things.3. Y2K believes in God.4. Since Y2K believes in one extraordinary item, it is opportunistic inconsistency for him to not believe in another extraordinary item.First three premisses are okay. I have no problem regarding them. However, the issue is with the inference. Given that I belive in one extraordinary item does not say anything about whether or not I am believing in another extraordinary items. I may have reasons to believe in that specific extraordinary item while not believing in other extraordinary items. Eh? Thus, I can still remain believing that extraordinary item and question others about believing "other" extraordinary items. Why? Because I am rationally justified in believing my choosen extraordinary item. However, things get different if I base my belief of that extraordinary item merely on faith. Saying that "You should believe X by faith" and saying that "You should not believe Y by faith" is opportunistic inconsistency. In addition, suppose that I argue X is wrong while I am habitually doing X. Logically speaking, it would be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque" target="_blank">tu quoque</a> to reply me as "hey! you are also doing X" However, if I charge someone for doing X while I am too doing X that would be hypocrisy. In Sinhala, that type of hypocrisy is expressed by the saying "කෝවිලේ කපුවා රුන්නට ගද නැහැලු." If you are arguing,1. Y2K has faith in one extraordinary item.2. Y2K asks us not to have faith in another extraordinary item.3. Therefore, Y2K is guilty of hypocrisy.If this is correct, Y2K falls under the saying "කෝවිලේ කපුවා රුන්නට ගද නැහැලු" . But, is this really correct? It depends on whether Y2K's belief of God is based on reason or faith. As far as I know about him by reading his posts, I think Y2K has some reasons (apart from faith) to belive in God. Whether or not his reasons are flawed is a different story.</blockquote>

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