{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Roundhouse Kicks Now Acceptable as Debate Tactic","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e298b96f454a297457f0f0d/e7670ce23150723e471915d856f60502.jpg?height=200","description":"1. What is this?\n- This is a kid throwing a tantrum\n- This is intimidation \n\n2. How did we get to this point?\n- This is what happens when people know what they believe, or think, but have no idea why\n- Heard a statement yesterday that I think catches it pretty well, “When someone resorts to name calling, (in this case kicking you) then you have won the argument”\n- We have gotten to this point because no one thinks for themselves anymore, they merely conform to groupthink\n\n3. How do we get back to actual dialogue? \n- I don’t know fully\n- I think we have to at least do four things:\n- 1 - Stop demonizing (calling evil) the other side for having different ideas, view one another as fellow human beings and neighbors\n- 2 - Stop identifying ourselves solely based upon our political ideologies (abortion and marriage are theological disagreements) so that we stop defending “our guy” in ridiculous ways\n- 3 - Think through the opposing view point in a serious way\n- 4 - Remember the goal is discovering the truth, not “owning the libs” or “owning the cons” or protecting our “side”\n\nI think we all would benefit greatly if we just put down social media, any kind of media, and went and read through Ecclesiastes, or the historical books in the Old Testament, or at least Plato’s “The Republic” or Aristotle’s “Politics.” \n\nI think we can take a great a great lesson from God’s willingness to be patient and not shut us out. In Isaiah 1:18 God states, “Come now, let us reason together.” This is what I hope we can do as well.","author_name":"Andrew McKinney"}