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Having traveled from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First Century A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.

Dear Socrates,

In your last column you argued that you were not antagonistic to religion but only to bad religious argumentation. You claimed to welcome religion into the dialectical fold, asking only that it be prepared to defend its premises like any good philosophical interlocutor. But I think you were being disingenuous, Socrates. It is no more possible for religion to defend its fundamental assumptions than for you to defend yours. There simply is not time enough to conduct such a dialogue.

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