Post by Cepha on May 31, 2008 9:43:53 GMT -5
What probably isn't known here is that while I set up this board to be a debate forum for those that couldn't debate elsewhere because of their extremes in beliefs, I also had planned for a place of Christian Fellowship.
Why I pushed for the aggressive atmosphere of debating was to get all of the dirt out of the way first and to have a history of text established on the board for matters of reference to help avoid repetative topics.
In short, before an anti-anybody comes here ready to "school" any of us here, once they peek and see what's already been debated, they get 2nd thoughts and flee. They see that their rhetoric will have no success here...in short, whatever questions they come here ready with from their tracts have all pretty much been addressed already completely disarming them leaving them with their bible in their hand and nothing else and without their tracts, they'd be forced to argue their points from only their bibles. Again, this disarms them.
It's like a man planning to rob a campsite. He plans to wait until they are asleep and thinks he can overpower them, but when he goes that night, there are guards posted at the perimeter of the camp and he quickly reconsiders his ill-conceived plan and retreats.
As you can see, this has worked well...you don't see anti-Christians here (of any denomination).
So, what's the point?
Why I pushed for the aggressive atmosphere of debating was to get all of the dirt out of the way first and to have a history of text established on the board for matters of reference to help avoid repetative topics.
In short, before an anti-anybody comes here ready to "school" any of us here, once they peek and see what's already been debated, they get 2nd thoughts and flee. They see that their rhetoric will have no success here...in short, whatever questions they come here ready with from their tracts have all pretty much been addressed already completely disarming them leaving them with their bible in their hand and nothing else and without their tracts, they'd be forced to argue their points from only their bibles. Again, this disarms them.
It's like a man planning to rob a campsite. He plans to wait until they are asleep and thinks he can overpower them, but when he goes that night, there are guards posted at the perimeter of the camp and he quickly reconsiders his ill-conceived plan and retreats.
As you can see, this has worked well...you don't see anti-Christians here (of any denomination).
So, what's the point?
