You and Arty were here, though.
After more than a year for him and more than two years for me, and more than that for almost everyone else. You know this.
OR, maybe, no one has an answer, because the only answer is to concede that I'm right.
I know that's what you believe. Unfortunately what you believe isn't true.
Yes, it comes mostly from the black community.
No it doesn't. A little fact-checking on your part would show you something different.
Like the white American citizen who just killed and wounded schoolchildren as young as 6 years old in a church in Minneapolis today.
The idea that as debaters continue to add more points or evidence to support a claim, the effectiveness of each attempt may decrease to the point that additional points or evidence diminishes and can even take away from the original claim.
As I've quoted before:
"A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.
We have all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the convinced person has some investment in his belief. We are familiar with the variety of ingenious defenses with which people protect their convictions, managing to keep them unscathed through the most devastating attacks.
But man’s resourcefulness goes beyond simply protecting a belief. Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief, that he has taken irrevocable actions because of it; finally, suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before. Indeed, he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting other people to his view."
You're right. I want our nation to be as Christian as possible, because it has the greatest chance of protecting life, and of bringing people to Christ, the Source of Life.
I want our nation to be as Constitutionally free as possible. That means adhering to the Establishment Clause.
There was a reason the Catholic Church in America began their own parochial school system, because Protestant Christianity and anti-Catholic bias was being forced on Catholic children in the public school systems of the mid 1800's.
