In need of a more humbleness. Why condemning the Theistic position makes no sense.

[Celestine]

So, your go to explanation for my stance was clearly the notion that I held some undefined grudge against religion (not even sure how that would be possible...btw). Failing that, radio silence? The whole "grudge against religion" bit, Celestine, is just something that holymen tell their flocks in order to dodge difficult criticism, and..let's face it, as part of a job security strategy. Have I ever failed to lay out why I put forward the positions that I do in our conversations? No, I have not. So why then, do I find myself being approached from such a ludicrous (and pious) angle? If you've been reading, you -know- why I say the things that I do. I'm a wordy motherfucker - I leave very little open to wonder or interpretation when it comes to my stance on religion.

I have nothing to hold a grudge for, no source of resentment, no event or goings on to be bitter about. I've led a fortunate life. I don't have the deconversion sob story that you are desperately reaching for. I've never been a believer, and I wasn't forced to attend services by my family. Hell, I never even got diddled by a priest - but maybe I just wasn't pretty enough? Boo-hoo, woe is me, it's all religions fault - and all that jazz.....

For claiming not to be bitter your character seems to betray you, in the book 'the shepherd of hermas' there is a quote that "The bearing of a grudge worketh death"

You claim not to have a grudge and that could be true but you seem very bitter if not even able to recognize it yourself. Bitterness is a lot like a grudge except it is a knife in which we plunge into our own hearts so that they may become hollow, in this way a grudge does worketh death not of the person we hold the grudge against but our own emotional death that disconnects us from ourselves. You claim you're not bitter, and that may be so, but your character presents that you are.