If you debate religion and theism with believers, why do you do it and what (if anything) do you hope to achieve? Is it really pointless to try and de-convert people through logical arguments and critical analyses of religious doctrine? That seems to be the case, at least in most situations.
You can't reason someone out of a position they never reasoned themselves into in the first place and most people were essentially indoctrinated into religious belief from their earliest years — they were taught that it was empirically correct and even morally necessary to believe certain things long before they ever acquired the tools necessary for basic critical analysis and skepticism.
You can't reason someone out of a position they never reasoned themselves into in the first place and most people were essentially indoctrinated into religious belief from their earliest years — they were taught that it was empirically correct and even morally necessary to believe certain things long before they ever acquired the tools necessary for basic critical analysis and skepticism.
