The first thing to do is arm yourself with knowledge. Get information from both sides. Know the apologetics, know how to combat the usual logical fallacies. You'd be amazed how interesting this stuff is.
The second thing is to try and calm down. When I first started these discourses, I would get so emotionally charged that I couldn't think.
Being an atheist doesn't necessarily mean you have to be interested in debating religious people or defending your lack of belief. You can just stick to your guns and dig your heels in. To be honest, though, that sort of makes you no better than a lot of theists who do the same thing. If you truly want to get better at this and develop an ability to defend yourself, it is like any other skill---it has to be honed.
The second thing is to try and calm down. When I first started these discourses, I would get so emotionally charged that I couldn't think.
Being an atheist doesn't necessarily mean you have to be interested in debating religious people or defending your lack of belief. You can just stick to your guns and dig your heels in. To be honest, though, that sort of makes you no better than a lot of theists who do the same thing. If you truly want to get better at this and develop an ability to defend yourself, it is like any other skill---it has to be honed.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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