Tuesday, April 24, 2018

The Ugly Coded Critique of Chick-Fil-A's Christianity Stephen L. Carter 4

  A New Yorker wrote an article in response to Chick-fill A's building restaurants in New York as 'creepy Christianity"  Stephen L. Carter responded by claiming that to call Christianity creepy was in
de facto calling black women creepy.  He concluded that since black women are more likely to be Christian than any other segment of society that to insult Christianity is insulting them.  He explained that since 60% of blacks that are Christian are women then black women make up the largest segment of believers.
  That rezoning  reminds me of the test questions that goes like this:  If A is true and B is true then C has to be true,  To conclude that that formula is always true is not the result of good logic.  Mr. Carter made the following application:  If women are more likely to be Christian and black women make up a higher percentage of the black population that call themselves Christian then Christianity is a black women religion.. 
   Mr. Carter ignored the fact that blacks make of 15% of the population so if there is a population of 100 women then only 15 black women.  If 60%  are Christian than that means 9 out of 100 Christian women are black.  If only 20% of the remaining women called themselves Christian we still have the fact that 17 Christian women would not be black or almost twice as many non-black Christian women as white Christian women.
  I'm assuming Mr. Carter didn't do well on the math and logic parts of his college board or  IQ tests in general.
   But the biggest error I want to point out in Mr. Carter's article is that insulting Christianity is insulting Christ not his followers.

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