I been thinking and I have to be honest and say I can not see anymore value of discussion or especially debate that is between people from different faith, where one person try to disprove or debunk the other persons faith or religious belief.
Is it difficult to accept that people are different and believe differently that our own belief?
I believe in acceptance of other people who believe different than me.
To me, it's better that others don't all think alike, because without the diversity -- that no 2 people see anything precisely the same way -- we'd not be unique and not have the good that comes from these all the wonderful variety of human personality flavors.
Ideally, if people could listen to each other (more than just a few select friends), they can have less debate and more discussion.
Maybe the main barrier to that fruitful discussion is that people are often told that other groups (diverse individuals that in reality don't all think the same and the grouping is just an illusion) are bad people, supporting something harmful.
If one believes the illusion that a grouping of people are all pushing a harmful agenda, then one feels justified in attacking them.
That endless
smearing of groups, that happens a lot here on RF, but also on other forums -- demonizing groups of people -- seems a part of human evil that's hard to get past.
What can we do?
I think it's helpful to try to correct the falsehoods (smears of groups). But I don't come here first or mostly to try to find smears to correct, which can be a lot like mopping a floor in a large building.
Instead, I mostly visit just looking for the chance of good discussion.
But it does happen that slanders and attacks on groups get the most attention here, and also it feels necessary to try to counter them just like it's necessary to have firefighters fight fire inside cities.
So, the level of discussion is often very low here.