bellrunner

This is just an anecdote from a random redditor, but a friend of mine had some run ins with religious rehab centers. He was in and out of the hospital and various rehab centers for substance abuse.

Long story short, he was straight up given an exorcism. Tied to the bet, "power of Christ compels you," 'holy' water spritzed at him, the whole deal. It was performed by the rehab director, to boot, not some random crazy nurse. This happened in California

You have to counter the gish gallop by literally calling attention to and criticizing their method of debate itself. As soon as you engage with what they're saying, you're defending and they're attacking, and they "win" by default.

They'll never defend any positions anyways, so there's basically no point in trying to answer their claims.

If you want to cancel out the debate entirely, you pick one particularly egregious claim and hammer the fuck out of it, sprinkle in some personal attacks and stretch statements about their character, if they can believe something this stupid/evil, and then the debate descends into yelling insults and nobody wins.

Oof, night terrors are nasty. I had a single one when I was I was a kid and I still remember it vividly 20 years later.

Well, that and post-combat suicides, which have been on a sharp rise. PTSD and our piss-poor veteran care does more damage than the combat does.

True, but who could have foreseen Hitler turning on Stalin in the middle of the war? WWII would have been a whole different beast if he hadn't made some massive tactical mistakes.