strawman

That is, when somone sets out to defend some position --- a religion, or a party, to take concrete examples, but just about anything I suppose --- and does that by essentially implying (or even outright stating) either a lite version of the actual position, or maybe a (partially or completely)...

From what I understand, the argument goes something like this: 1. Belief in god is a part of human nature 2. (scene missing) 3. Therefore, if you don't believe in god, you must be depressed From what I've been able to determine, 2 is supposed to be "If you are missing a part of human nature...