We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.
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I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary__ force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.
One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do_
Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.