Have you ever heard negative things about the left hand or being left-handed because the Bible refers

positively to the right hand so many times? That is a false dichotomy and an argument from silence,

and these are logical fallacies that can trip us up when it comes to understanding theology.

Today I will help us spot some classical, unbiblical

contrasts and how we can help our kids recognize these fallacies in just regular scripture reading

too. Welcome to Sheprews Faithful, the podcast to help you think biblically and live faithfully.

I'm your host, Lauren Lushak. Welcome to the show.

Hello, and thank you for joining me on the podcast today. It is always a treat to be with you,

and I am so grateful that you chose to listen to Shepu's Faithful today. I am excited about today's

episode because logical fallacies are fun and also make my brain work

extra hard and it hurts a little sometimes, you know. But I really think this episode will

provide some good, solid grounding regarding some popular false dichotomies that Christians

and non-Christians wrestle with, and even how we can

teach these things to our children, recognizing them in our conversations or when we read the Bible.

I have a fun little story about being left-handed at the end. You've probably heard the introduction

here. Like, what? Where are we going with this, Lauren, with the left hand? So that's at the end. But again, I am so glad that you are here. A few things before we jump in today. First, I don't want to brag or anything, but I'm pretty much a cat midwife. I mean, or at best or worst, I don't know, a doula, a cat dula, because our cat Prinkle,

that's right, Prinkle, not Sprinkle. My daughter named her, and she couldn't pronounce the SP

consonant blend. So Prinkle it is. Prinkle gave birth in my bathroom the other day to six cute,

adorable tiny baby kittens. And

I have to be honest, without hurting pregole's feeling, she is not the prettiest cat.

She's a wonderful cat. But I don't know what her genetic makeup is, but she looks like a tie-dye

project gone wrong with like all the wrong

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