Because if something is true today, it doesn\u2019t have to be true tomorrow. \u00a0Likewise, there is no problem with saying something is true only insofar as it helps me win an argument. \u00a0I learned this yesterday on my last day at Friendly Atheist, when atheists ran about insisting that atheists never say religious people are bad or do bad things as part of their arguments. \u00a0I mean, really? \u00a0That\u2019s like Limbaugh saying he\u2019s never criticized Obama. \u00a0Which he wouldn\u2019t say, but so often those on the Left would. \u00a0Prize for the best exposition of this phenomenon goes to Dennis Miller,
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