Nah, I don’t think I’d win. I’m young and inexperienced.
Still, not to point at you personally, one can still have prodigious amounts of grey matter, and it still be looney.
As for you, I think you simply have a different perspective than mine, and the two will never be reconciled. I’m alright with that. But, like you, I still think I’m right, and there’s nothing you can do to convince me otherwise.
I’d much prefer to be discussing politics, but it seems that those who would denigrate my faith are quite tenacious. What can I do but match their tenacity?
“Still, not to point at you personally, one can still have prodigious amounts of grey matter, and it still be looney.”
I wholeheartedly agree - genius magnifies insights, but also magnifies the errors. That’s why when someone questions my sanity, I offer real money in a bet to separate out the name callers. I have yet to find anyone who will take me up on it.
“As for you, I think you simply have a different perspective than mine, and the two will never be reconciled. I’m alright with that. But, like you, I still think I’m right, and there’s nothing you can do to convince me otherwise.
I’d much prefer to be discussing politics, but it seems that those who would denigrate my faith are quite tenacious. What can I do but match their tenacity?”
Morality is at the very root of politics - to deny the religious question is to found the political structure on sand. That does not imply everyone must convert to a true faith, but it does mean there are certain basic assumptions. Man as God steps over the line in so many fundamental ways that I cannot look the other way. Plus, I’ve seen the effects in real life by Mormon bullies who misuse their power.