251. Why debate dogma?

Comment #93123 by AtheistJon on December 2, 2007 at 9:01 am

One interesting old quote about the religious that might be relevant to this blog:

"You can't reason someone out of something he or she never reasoned themselves into in the first place."

Not sure who said that first. This is of course assuming that during a debate the point of the endeavor is making arguments rather than just arguing... which often seems to be the case in some of these debates with Dinesh, since there seems to be a lot of ignoring the other sides arguments and spinning off in another direction (perhaps as a deflective tactic) rather than focusing on a single point and a single argument at a time... with affirmative and negative positions.