The main thing theists do is a diversion. When you start explaining them how something in their faith/ religion doesn't make sense they quickly start diverting conversation on you personally, usually by writing personal insults at you. Or start writing about something completely off topic and usually conspiracies and more precisely the Moon landing.
And this is something that I noticed use theists who take their scripture more literally (aka creationists) and this is something that I deal mostly with theists outside this forum.
While those theists that like to see themselves as more "sophisticated" aren't that much better. While they don't go on you personally that much, they also use usual fallacies to avoid talking about the subject and/ or completely ignore when you show their beliefs to be absurd.
And when they're totally beaten down, they pull the "feelings" card: how God is all about feelings.
And this is something that I noticed use theists who take their scripture more literally (aka creationists) and this is something that I deal mostly with theists outside this forum.
While those theists that like to see themselves as more "sophisticated" aren't that much better. While they don't go on you personally that much, they also use usual fallacies to avoid talking about the subject and/ or completely ignore when you show their beliefs to be absurd.
And when they're totally beaten down, they pull the "feelings" card: how God is all about feelings.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
