I agree that trying to tear someones faith apart in such places as a fair is cruel. Personally when I was an active member and I was challenged by an inillectual in public I would back off rapidly. Some people just are not cut out to have a religious debate in public. Many people I know would just panic. But I know of people that could challenge a challenger as good as any man.
I have a dear friend who many years ago was serving a building mission for the church. He tells a nice story of when he was digging a huge hole, infact he was down the hole when he noticed it got dark suddenly. He happened to look up and noticed he was totally surrounded by a mob of anti's. They gave him a hard time and he as a new convert seriously struggled in his answers. This mob was getting rather agressive at his lack of knowledge and all he could think of was to bare his testmony. The mob was unable to challenge this and dispersed.
So i guess thats a good way of avoiding a debate.
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