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Civil Persuasion

[C]ivility, which I take to be a strong virtue and not simply wimpishness, requires that we not try to cram our beliefs down anybody's throats, whether we be Christian or non-Christian. But that we all try to articulate as persuasively as we can, what it is we hope that others will be persuaded.

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