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Talk:Mystery: Was John a Samaritan (view source)
Revision as of 08:57, October 12, 2025
, 08:57, October 12, 2025→The essay "Mystery: Was John a Samaritan" engages in elephant hurling
These arguments often rely on absence of evidence or cherry-picked details, lacking empirical support from archaeology, textual criticism, or patristic sources, making them collectively weak against the "Gulliver" scale of established evidence for John's Jewish identity."[https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNA%3D%3D_4512579b-6e87-4d02-881c-61dca6636b19] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 04:52, October 12, 2025 (EDT)
These arguments often rely on absence of evidence or cherry-picked details, lacking empirical support from archaeology, textual criticism, or patristic sources, making them collectively weak against the "Gulliver" scale of established evidence for John's Jewish identity."[https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNA%3D%3D_4512579b-6e87-4d02-881c-61dca6636b19] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 04:52, October 12, 2025 (EDT)
== The essay "Mystery: Was John a Samaritan" engages in elephant hurling ==
== The essay "Mystery: Was John a Samaritan" engages in the poor argumentation tactic of "elephant hurling" ==
"Regarding "elephant hurling" (a tactic of overwhelming with a barrage of claims to obscure weak substantiation), the essay fits this by amassing 34 points without critically evaluating their validity, interconnections, or alternative explanations. It presents them as a cumulative "mystery" but avoids addressing how they might be refuted, such as by noting Galilee's Jewish demographics or John's integration into the Jerusalem-based early church leadership (Acts 3–4, Galatians 2)."
"Regarding "elephant hurling" (a tactic of overwhelming with a barrage of claims to obscure weak substantiation), the essay fits this by amassing 34 points without critically evaluating their validity, interconnections, or alternative explanations. It presents them as a cumulative "mystery" but avoids addressing how they might be refuted, such as by noting Galilee's Jewish demographics or John's integration into the Jerusalem-based early church leadership (Acts 3–4, Galatians 2)."[https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNA%3D%3D_4512579b-6e87-4d02-881c-61dca6636b19"