good to keep in mind

The Miscreant makes a point that is good to keep in mind:

Why no progress in the “debate”?

You can’t talk to people who think they are the gods of Asgard and that you are just a frost giant or a troll in disguise trying to get past the guardian of the Bifrost Bridge.

You know it is not debate but war when one side always covers up the other side’s progress in persuading them by simply ignoring their own change of position and inventing new arguments as if these were always at issue. At one time, saying that one entered the Church by baptism was treated as dangerous. Now it is simply agreed to without any memory of anything to the contrary said so confidently before. Count on it: within the year all of this will be conceded in Wilkin’s favor and an entirely new line of attack will be implemented without any admision of a shift.

That thread he links to, is in itself an example of the point his is making.