The Role of Persuasion Rather than Arguments With Brainwashed People
If brain studies mean anything people are persuaded into thinking differently. They aren't just reasoned into it. Persuasion. So in the interests of persuading people rather than continually following up on what seems to me to be a dead end with my opponents I simply try a different tact. People can claim what they want to about how I roll. It's just that I can better persuade my opponents by using several different ways of seeing the same truth rather than following them down the rabbit hole where we will not agree in the end anyway.
We see things differently. I know this. Others don't seem to. That's the difference with me. For me it's not always about more detailed arguments and time consuming reasoning. It's about helping those who disagree with me see things my way. It takes a conversion, a new way of seeing the evidence, much like a lawyer who becomes a prosecutor in the midst of the same trial.
That's the genius of what I do, although for this I am railed against in places. Still I know what I'm doing and I'm making a difference. The facts are the facts. Kick against these goads all you want to. I have a properly basic belief that God doesn't exist. The only thing left is to persuade. ;-)
Or, someone could tell me how to reach brainwashed people. You cannot reason with them for the most part at all. They are impervious to reasoning. They always have an escape clause much like the guy who thought he was dead, was convinced dead men don't bleed, then upon being cut with a knife concluded dead men do bleed after all! All I'm doing is treating the patient in ways appropriate to his illness.
Christians don't like this. I understand that. But then I'm not here to win friends. I've come to the conclusion that many of them cannot be reasoned out of their faith because they were never reasoned into it in the first place.
Sometimes all one can do is be that person in the crowd who yells out, "Hey he doesn't have any clothes on." This is the level at which some Christians are in my judgment. At that point I am no longer interested in arguing with them but in persuading them, challenging them, provoking them to see things differently, to see things my way.
We see things differently. I know this. Others don't seem to. That's the difference with me. For me it's not always about more detailed arguments and time consuming reasoning. It's about helping those who disagree with me see things my way. It takes a conversion, a new way of seeing the evidence, much like a lawyer who becomes a prosecutor in the midst of the same trial.
That's the genius of what I do, although for this I am railed against in places. Still I know what I'm doing and I'm making a difference. The facts are the facts. Kick against these goads all you want to. I have a properly basic belief that God doesn't exist. The only thing left is to persuade. ;-)
Or, someone could tell me how to reach brainwashed people. You cannot reason with them for the most part at all. They are impervious to reasoning. They always have an escape clause much like the guy who thought he was dead, was convinced dead men don't bleed, then upon being cut with a knife concluded dead men do bleed after all! All I'm doing is treating the patient in ways appropriate to his illness.
Christians don't like this. I understand that. But then I'm not here to win friends. I've come to the conclusion that many of them cannot be reasoned out of their faith because they were never reasoned into it in the first place.
Sometimes all one can do is be that person in the crowd who yells out, "Hey he doesn't have any clothes on." This is the level at which some Christians are in my judgment. At that point I am no longer interested in arguing with them but in persuading them, challenging them, provoking them to see things differently, to see things my way.