The insults mask a weak argument. A person confident in their position doesn't feel the need to resort to such obfuscation, unprovoked. Protip: it doesn't hide anything - it draws attention to it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'