Yes! Half the time it’s more about the 3rd parties. Often you will notice in an video like this the other faces in the room, they neither agree or disagree, but they seem to accept that this is a very valid point. Time, some pondering, may lead to changes that stick.

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Also a huge lesson I've learned: even if you can't convince the person you're talking to - maybe you can if you're El-Sayed lol - even if you can't, there's almost always other people in the room who are listening. It pays to make your case to them.

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Implicit in Tommy's answers is the longstanding idea that Christianity is "neutral" or the default, while other faiths are merely allowed or tolerated. It's the "correct" faith, as it were.

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He took Tommy seriously. Tommy was not remotely prepared to be accountable for his own words. Instead, Tommy disgraced himself in front of hundreds, then millions, of witnesses.

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Quite a lot of rhetorical skill in that reply, though: He debunked the presumption behind the question - while deconstructing the questioner’s thinking. A speech act one does not see every day.

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