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[Paul Schmehl]

--On Monday, July 26, 2010 14:06:17 -0700 David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:

> On Mon, July 26, 2010 11:24 am, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> When this is the way one answers a simple question, I tend to believe
>> there's no genuine interest in dialog.
>
> Well, I hate to break it to you, but people who are trying to make a
> religious point aren't interested in dialog, anyway.  In fact, it's pretty
> well impossible to have a dialog with them that gets anywhere.  You can't
> have a sensible debate when the other person's fallback response is always
> "it's god's will, so it's beyond our understanding and we can't question
> it, and you're an evil person for not agreeing with me."  These people
> have been taught from a young age that logic is evil and will lead them
> down the road to hell, so logical arguments are lost on them.
>

The assumptions and bias in that statement are so broad as to defy description.

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Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not those of my employer.
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"It is as useless to argue with those who have
renounced the use of reason as to administer
medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson