I get your point. It's just that I'm loath to let him keep the tool that allows him to write off any objections to his claims as "you refuse to see the truth because you're being purposely obtuse". I'm trying to nail his trousers to the mast - then he can't climb down.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'