Systematically Dismantling Atheism

[Asmodee]

Then read what people write to you next time.
(happens to us all, btw, sure as hell been there myself)

I can see I'll have to get used to your personality. It seems abrasive one sentence and downright friendly the next. Frankly I have no idea how to take you, but I'm starting to think that you are not what I at first assumed (a massive cock), but something else entirely (kind of a dick, but in a fun way?) That last sentence, by the way, was playful. Insulting, yes, but in a fun way.

When I feel you're being condescending or rude it puts me on the defensive, making me not want to read what you write, this time or next. Why would I want to read past the sentence which, from my perspective, says, "You're an idiot"? Once I get to a sentence which is rude what incentive to I have to read on? What reason do I have at that point for even wanting to learn your perspective? I don't like getting into arguments. I like enlightening debate. And frankly, I don't care if I lose most of the time. The one who loses a debate is the one who learned something (except in the case of "believers", in which case they don't even know they lost the debate and are generally incapable of actual learning by choice, not mental capacity). But once the conversation gets personal, all that is out the door. It's no longer "a conversation" or "a debate". It's now "an argument" and there's nothing to be learned by losing "an argument" except how bad you are at arguing, which is completely pointless, as is an argument.