Identify any fallacies in the following passage."That Ehrman fellow started off as a fairly fundamentalist religious person, but after all that education and study, he finally wound up being an atheist. His opinions about the scriptures are not the ones you want to listen to."

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Ad hominem.

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