Cousin Ricky <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
> are evil monsters.  Alas, Christian logic doesn't work that way.  Since Hitler
> was a monster, he must surely have been an atheist.  This piece of backward
> reasoning is so slick that most Christians aren't aware that they're doing it.

  The classical "no true scotsman" fallacy.

  And bonus points for circular argumentation on top of it: "Hitler must have
been an atheist because he was so evil. Because atheist *are* evil. How do you
know? Well, look at Hitler: He was an atheist and very evil. QED."

    while(true) std::cout << "circular logic works because ";

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