RE: Someone debate me
August 27, 2012 at 2:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2012 at 2:08 pm by Mystic.)
(August 27, 2012 at 2:02 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(July 16, 2012 at 11:28 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It takes time. Let him debate, let him vent his frustration against what he fears (leaving his religion), let him try to prove he is being rational...
It takes years sometimes. You have to give people time.
I don't think it's possible for a presuppositionalist to ever become rational on the topic their presupposing. It's a rabbithole that doesn't allow escape. I'd like to be wrong about that, but although I've met many former theists and am one, I've never met a former presuppositionalist, no matter what flavor of Christianity or Islam they espoused. Once you buy that presupposing something is actually an argument, you've given up any tools that would have allowed you to reason your way out of it.
Hmm...but doesn't this negate free-will? Can't we always chose to be more rational?
Why do we blame people for their irrationality, if they have no way to chose to become rational?
