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He Straw Mans His Own Straw Man! (Patreon)

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2022-06-05 12:01:01
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2022-06

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Today, we look at a video from Stand to Reason, Greg Koukl's organization, in which they respond to a version of an argument against Christianity.  We end up in a straw man-ception scenario.

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He Straw Mans His Own Straw Man!

Today, we look at a video from Stand to Reason, Greg Koukl's organization, in which they respond to a version of an argument against Christianity. We end up in a straw man-ception scenario. Sources: Church embraces pastor who admits to ‘adultery’ despite victim saying she was 16: https://bit.ly/3lTFKAH Bathing with women, sleeping with naked girls: Read about Gandhi’s ‘experiments with celibacy’: https://bit.ly/3GEvOo3 Original Video: https://bit.ly/3LUrGS3 All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com

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Anonymous

'Who' and 'whom'. I could go on for hours. But I won't. I'll just give some highlights. 'Whom' is not accusative. English does not have an accusative case. The only cases that still exist in English are the nominative (subjective) and genitive (possessive). Outside of pronouns, I can't think of any words that have case endings for the former accusative and dative cases. I don't know what occasioned the post, but I will guess that you said something like "to who", and the poster thinks it should have been "to whom". That, however, is wrong if the poster is correct that 'whom' is accusative, because 'to' takes the dative, not the accusative. Therefore, if you want to try to keep dead cases alive, you should say, "to wham", because 'wham' was the dative. According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, 'who' has been used for 'whom' since around 1300. Fowler say, "In talk <i>who</i> is constantly used for the objective case ... ." As any linguist will tell you, real languages are spoken; written languages are fossils, preserving long-dead relics of past usage. Fowler asks, "Is the upshot that case is moribund, that our remaining case-forms are doomed to extinction, ... and the right policy is to let the memory of case fade away ...?" He answers his own question, "Possibly". I would say, "Absolutely." There is no reason at all to preserve 'whom', any more than there is reason to preserve 'wham'. They have already disappeared from the spoken language; let them go from the written language as well.

Anonymous

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