Bite-Sized: The Merit of "Dialogue"

This one's a little abstract...

The quest for "dialogue" is something I hear about a lot. We pursue thoughtful dialogue. We want to establish dialogue. It seems that the greatest pursuit is the pursuit of tolerance through dialogue. I'm inclined to disagree. We shouldn't be asking questions just to ask questions or just to facilitate dialogue. We ask questions to receive answers. We ask questions to reach understanding and wisdom. Once we receive that wisdom, we would do well to accept and act on it. But inquiry for the sake of inquiry is toothless unless we have a burning desire for the Truth behind it. Excerpted below is a discussion between the White Spirit and the Episcopal Ghost of C.S. Lewis' Great Divorce:

EG: Ah, but we must all interpret those beautiful words [read: sacred Scripture] in our own way! For me there is no such thing as a final answer. The free wind of inquiry must always continue to blow through the mind, must it not? "Prove all things"... to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

WS: If that were true, and known to be true, how could anyone travel hopefully? There would be nothing to hope for.

EG: But you must feel yourself that there is something stifling about the idea of finality? Stagnation, my dear boy, what is more soul-destroying than stagnation?"

WS: You think that, because hitherto you have experienced truth only with the abstract intellect. I will bring you where you can taste it like honey and be embraced by it as by a bridegroom. Your thirst shall be quenched...You have gone far wrong. Thirst is made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage. 

Don't just ask questions to be trendy or "foster dialogue". Ask questions to learn the Truth. Look to the Eternal Fact, as Lewis calls Him. Look to Christ, the center and Source of all creation.