The only reason I continued this communication was for the benefit of others reading the dialog. Hopefully it has planted a few seeds.
I’m a skeptic, as everyone should be. Discernment of truth from non truth is critically important. People who judge everything as black or white just haven’t developed the intellectual capacity to hold diametrically opposing ideas, pondering them for enhanced understanding of the dates of light gray to dark gray between the to positions.
Intellectual curiosity leads to greater understanding which expansion the limits of experience. Those who close their minds and hold their current knowledge like a three year old holds onto a toy, will atrophy into death without growing.
As Josh Billings was quoted by Ronald Reagan, “It ain’t ignorance causes so much trouble; it’s folks knowing so much that ain’t so.”
Ronald Reagan recycled it as: “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”