Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Someone who gets it!/reply

(They aren't that exclusive. In answering one, you can address the other.  if your answer to 'what is a religion' includes atheism, it tells you lots about your views of religion.  That is one of the reasons I rarely debate, even with students, "what is a X".  I say, write a paper on it with your ideas, but for this class, parrot me.)

As you both have said, if you want an actually fruitful discussion about something, then you set the parameters and define things at the beginning. Doesn't mean your definitions are some how "right" in a objective way, they are just "the ones we are using here. but the second you do that, you reinforce your point, nebby, that generally there is an underlying agenda which matters more than the topic at hand.  "you are no better than me, cause you don't like religion, yet you have a religion all your own".