Progressive Christians often decry the use of the “slippery slope” argument
when it suits them. One example here. On the one hand, I
see their point. I recall the old line
from my early days that one drink necessarily leads to alcoholism or one rock
and roll riff leads inevitably to Satan worship.
There is a problem with such arguments that progressives would be correct
in opposing if they stated the problem correctly. It is fallacious to say that because some who
have taken step A wind up at point Z, it is true that taking step A will always
and inevitably lead to step Z. Of
course that is not the case, but I don’t think anybody ever said it was.
