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Originally Posted by Vulcan
To me a lot of you are thinking too much. Everyone has their idea of what or who god is or what heaven is from the bible, other books, from others ideas, etc. and then proceed to tear it down. It must be the original straw man.
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Actually a straw man is something I create for the purposes of tearing down. If I say you say X and then tear X down, but you don't actually say X you say Y, that's a straw man.
To tear down an actual idea proposed by a book or person isn't a straw man, it's a valid logical argument.
I don't know if you could say you can overthink this issue either; according to many religious people all of eternity in damnation is at stake. Happen to get it wrong here and burn for all eternity. Those are pretty high stakes.