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A Debate About The Wisdom of Trying To Deconvert People

October 20, 2011 By Daniel Fincke 14 Comments

Jaime: So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how best to debate the existence of God with religious believers… Kelly: Why would you do that? Jaime: Do what? Kelly: Debate the existence of God with religious believers. What’s the point in that? Jaime: What do you mean, “what’s the point?” We live in the [...]

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