Matt Slick
Basic Description
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<title source="title1"> <default>Matt Slick</default> </title> <image source="image1">
</image> <group> <header>Information</header> <label>Gender</label> <label>Scientific Name</label> <label>Positions</label> <label>Debating Against</label> <label>Skills</label> <label>Links</label> </group> </infobox> Matt Slick is the founder of CARM.org (Christian Apologetic Research Ministry), which is a website aggregating Matt Slick's research conducted on issues of religion from an Christian apologetic view. Matt is a well known apologetic personality with on radio, the internet, and in live debate; his debate style is characterized as more efficient rather than based on relationship building choosing to appeal to the rules of logic to make arguments rather than empathy or the human collective experience.
Matt Slick's TAG argument
Among Matt's most known subjective opinions includes an argument known as "T.A.G." In this Matt argues subjectively for the "transcendental existence for god." To reference the list of people that have successfully refuted this arguement to his face, click here: http://great-debate-community.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Members. Just start at the top and then stop when it hits the list of CCP members. There is no indication this argument has worked on anyone, but the first known public dismantling of this argument came from Russell Glasser and Don Baker on The Atheist Experience. Following, as stated above, anyone who has looked at it, has refuted it (and many, many GDC members have to his face), including being notably undressed several times by Dillahunty and then surgically amputated by Dr. Alex Malpass. Yet, he still looks at TAG as an asset, it is really one of many dead limbs on his dead tree of philosophy.
Matt Slick has no formal training in philosophy or any of its disciplines, though he refers to himself as an authority. On more than one occasion he has lied about being one who "has taught logic." Though it is true that he has done his best misleading as many people as he can about logic, you wouldn't end a conversation with Matt thinking he possessed the qualifications to teach much of anything, let alone logic. And you'd be right, because he doesn't.
Persecution Complex
Though Matt is not unique in this aspect, he has been very public when it comes to his religious desire to wihthold equal rights from certain types of people, most notably on the issue of same sex marriage. Instead of appealing to his deity to magically stop people from being gay, he'd rather bully them to stop by claiming he is a victim of the homofascist mafia. It's really only funny if you don't think about all of the actual physical harm done to and rights withheld from the LGBTQ community. Matt's tragedy is Samatha Bee's work of art.
P or Not P - (video: Skylar Fiction)
Super Powers
- Constant smugness covered by condescendence.
- Vulnerable to porn-bombing.
- Master obfuscator.
Sye Ten Atheist on Matt Slick (VERY NSFW!)
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