Wait, I just had a brilliant idea! Because there is no evidence for the god I believe in, perhaps I could instead criticize atheists as individuals, such as saying they are arrogant, fanatics, fat, do not shower, and whatever else comes to mind, in order to divert attention away from the fact that I do not have evidence for my god, and it will also make me look persecuted. This will all create the illusion that I have credible claims for my god's existence.
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"
