My biggest issue with theists

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I agree, and we see similar kinds of reactions from many theists here. They take criticism or mockery of ideas as an attack on them as a person. In contrast, I wouldn't take personally the mockery of any idea I held to be true or important. I also wouldn't care, especially when the mockery held no merit.

The prevailing theory I have seen is that "gods" are an idealized projection of the self; so a criticism of god is automatically internalized. It's easy to see that this is the case, and it also destroys the idea of a single god pretty easily: god agrees with every theist (about morality and its desires), while they disagree with each other.