To be moved by rational argument, a person has to be open to rational discourse.
Further, it is one thing if there was a reasoned, rational argument one could make about the dangers of Christian extremism.
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Last year, Graham Watson, Liberal Democrat MEP for the South West region, said the Spanish case owed more to "political spite" than rational argument.
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Perhaps he just gets tired of the rather forced passion play that is the lot of a democratic leader, and believes too much in the force of rational argument.
What the New Atheists share is a belief that religion should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized and exposed by rational argument wherever its influence arises.
Thought, contemplation and rational argument are at a discount.
He undervalues both free speech and rational argument.
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It's been on my mind to point out that although there may be a rational argument for placing the holding companies of Liverpool Football Club into administration, that may be technically impossible as of this moment.
And it is because he understood that people live each day within a variety of value systems that he could write a great poem about how two people could allow appetite, seemingly rational argument and love to lead them to disobey a divine command.
His argument is for what he claims is the cooler, calmer, more rational and more sophisticated view.
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"There is nothing about this case that is rational or makes any sense, " attorney Bryan Konoski told jurors in a closing argument in a trial that centers on a schizophrenic killer's state of mind.
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