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Oh, pooh. Jesus did it all the time!
Well yes, but he didn't necessarily do it to make his points more clear.

Besides, Jesus was teaching, not debating. I've been finding (just in general, not necessarily here) that when I make an analogy the conversation spends more time off track debating the analogy than actualy discussing the real issue.

A friend of mine who's a debate coach confirmed this when I told him I was trying to cut back on analogies. He had this problem with his debate students all of the time. He'd say "say I gave you a box. . . " and his kids would immediately start saying "why would you give us a box?" "what kind of box is it?" "Are you going to give us a present". Whatever he was trying to illustrate got completely lost. I've started to realize this is true in most debating conversations, though illustrations are great for teaching mature audiences.

Or at least that's what I think.
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-Jeff
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.