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“Axiomatic thinking” is a fancy way of saying “making up stuff.” So thinkers sometimes make up stuff, but how does made-up stuff look? It looks like interpretations, speculative explanations, models, theories, theologies, assumptions, or axioms. These add to what God reveals or diminish parts of what God reveals.
While circular reasoning and infinite regression are smokescreen fallacies, they aren’t the only smokescreens as we’ve mentioned. For instance, neither circular reasoning nor infinite regression includes appeal to ridicule fallacies or red herring fallacies. In fact, the trilemma missed hundreds of fallacies, but those other fallacies affect our daily lives. While the trilemma doesn’t cover all these other fallacies, the term “smokescreen” does cover them, so we’ll trim the trilemma to made-up stuff and smokescreen fallacies.
As we’ve discovered, the ungodly thinking trilemma has several problems. First, it’s too complex. Second, it doesn’t account for all the other fallacies that cause errors in thinking. Third, it begins with an assumption of naturalism or atheism. Fourth, some people work under the illusion that the trilemma affects everyone, everywhere, in every circumstance—that’s not true.
So on our journey, we move forward to a much simpler way to understand the problem. Thinkers only commit one active fallacy: making up stuff. All other fallacies are smokescreens. Smokescreens try to give the illusion that made-up stuff is real stuff.
So axiomatic thinkers are either making up stuff or defending their made-up stuff. Since this two-part fallacy only impacts ungodly thinkers, we name it “the ungodly thinking fallacy” and dispense with the trilemma going forward.
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