On "Scholarly Consensus"

[Anomalocaris]

Rationality isn't normally in their vocabulary, but it never hurts to try. Calling them loons may hurt feelings, but it keeps one from beating around the bush for too long.

The fact that I was rational when I was a theist was what allowed me to critically examine my beliefs and realize that what I thought was justification wasn't such. Calling them loons and idiots from the word go and repeatedly is entirely counter productive.

You would not have been very rational when you were a theist if being called a loon and and an idiot for being the theist deterred you from realizing that you were being a loon and idiot for being a theist.