Yes Mark, for Christians they are a matter of bait and switch: argue in a reasonable way until backed into a corner; then claim the authority of faith; and then slip back over into reason when the coast is clear. And note, too, the hyperbolic use of logicians’ jargon–as if the semblance of vast erudition will reinforce claims that otherwise depend upon the marginality of all such efforts. What really matters, for a Christian, is that private little experience in one’s own heart, and the smug certainty that “nobody is really in a position to say I’m wrong about my own revelation.”

Saul’s experience on the road to Damascus was not a deathbed conversion, though.