Tim Cook wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>>   I wonder what this fallacy is called:
>>
>> 1) If God is good, then X.
>> 2) Clearly, not X.
>> 3) Hence there is no God.
>>
>>   Is it a non-sequitur? Deduction #3 does not follow from the other two.
>> (What would follow is "God is not good", not "there is no God".)

Is every flawed reasoning a falacy? I think this is just a flawed reasoning.

> But there's an extra, assumed step:
> 1b) God is good.

Well, it's not assumed by the article in the link. It's explicitly stated. 
Obviously the same logic doesn't hold for Satan or Zeus, for example.

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