(01-05-2024, 03:51 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: Ninurta, it sounds like your methods are conservative apologetics. Even though the term apologetics is mostly applied to Christian theology, I had thought about its use in combating the Marxist commie crap I see everywhere. It is the best way to put these people in their place and make them think (hopefully). Also, I agree that the audience you want to persuade is not the loony leftist, it is everyone else who is lurking in the background.
I once read a Christian Apologetics book called "Know What You Believe", and the title seemed to be sound advice for all areas of life, not just religion.
Folks need to investigate for themselves, and think for themselves, "know what they believe". When folks DON'T really know what they believe, but are just parroting talking points handed down from higher up, it shows. When they are pressed, they get frustrated and angry, because the answers being sought by the questioner were not covered in the memo handed down from on high, so they don't really "know what they believe", and therefore cannot answer the questions.
Most Marxists are like that - they've read "Das Kapital", but never thought it through enough to know what it really says. Unfortunately, a disturbing number of Conservatives are in the same boat - they don't really know what they believe, either, and think that somehow yelling the talking points louder will cover up that deficiency of knowledge regarding the question asked. It doesn't. it just clues the listener in to the fact that they don't really know what they are talking about.
See the recent (a couple days ago) interview of Mayorkas by Brett Baier for a sterling example of just yelling talking points in an attempt to cover an inability to answer the question at hand. He looked stupid, like he didn't know what he was talking about, on national television... all because he couldn't answer the questions, and had to fall back on repeating the talking points just more loudly.
That's not a very good look in a religious OR a political discussion!
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