This guy responded to the newsletter I sent out recently.  I sent him my response which is below.

You still have time left! Don't give up on life by crediting everything to God and Jesus. Dedicate yourself to expanding your knowledge of science and reason, and you can find reality before it's too late!

Greetings,

Before I listened to your debate with Laura Ingraham I had never really heard of the woman, so I googled her. I must admit that I found her career resume quite impressive but she is obviously lacking when it comes to the art of argumentation. Here are just four of the diverting and idiotic tactics she used:

1 - She tried to use the work of Christian missionaries as proof that there is a god and as justification for the continuation of Christianity. In my opinion, Christian charity isn't altruistic since they're only doing it because a book tells them that they have to do it in order to make it into Heaven. If a million Christians do charity work based on what a book tells them it's still not as noble as the charity work of ten atheists who do charity work without being nudged by religiosity.

2 - She asked you if you were ever going to get a job, which was a low blow and indicative of the way that Christians will desperately lash out (I thought they weren't supposed to judge people?!) when they find themselves inevitably backed into a corner.

Greetings,

Before I listened to your debate with Laura Ingraham I had never really heard of the woman, so I googled her. I must admit that I found her career resume quite impressive but she is obviously lacking when it comes to the art of argumentation. Here are just four of the diverting and idiotic tactics she used:

1 - She tried to use the work of Christian missionaries as proof that there is a god and as justification for the continuation of Christianity. In my opinion, Christian charity isn't altruistic since they're only doing it because a book tells them that they have to do it in order to make it into Heaven. If a million Christians do charity work based on what a book tells them it's still not as noble as the charity work of ten atheists who do charity work without being nudged by religiosity.

2 - She asked you if you were ever going to get a job, which was a low blow and indicative of the way that Christians will desperately lash out (I thought they weren't supposed to judge people?!) when they find themselves inevitably backed into a corner.

I'm just curious. What are the points you recieve for every comment you make for?

I'm posting this here in hopes that students of this incompetent teacher will find it and realize, their teacher is incompetent.

Seriously, you teach a class about critical thinking?  fucking christ.

You might as well have asked: how can one eat an apple if they believe it's a vegetable?  

Your question is ridiculous, and as a teacher you should be embarrassed.  

And here are my psychic abilities:  I'd be willing to wager a lot of money that you teach at a religious school, not a secular one.  And if I'm wrong my follow up guess is that you're Christian, possibly even not a teacher.  

My response...

I'm gonna call it now, you're either not very bright, you're a theist, or you're both.

 Please, I am desperate for anybody's help.

My Husband and I have been married for almost 3 yrs. 6 months after we were married, I started finding all these little religious pamphlets and mini-books and magazines in our house.  When I confronted him about them he would blow it off, say he thought a single article was interesting, or claim that someone gave it to him and he just happened to bring it home but that it wasn't really something he was interested in.  We moved to a new home a year ago, and I had to do most of the packing while he worked.  Wanting to downsize his massive collection of books, I carefully went through them all as I packed.  I had to throw away two banana boxes FULL of Christian, Mormon and Jehovah's Witness based so-called self help books.  I even found a couple that were how to go about raising your children for Christ.  We have two little boys.

Since we began dating, he never mentioned religion in a positive way.  Being very open about my non-belief, I talked with him many many times about religion and he always agreed with me on every point we ever discussed.  We agreed at the birth of our first son that religion would be something best left out of the home and agreed that our children should be allowed to grow up religion-free and make informed choices as adults.  

I have a couple of basic questions and am hopeful that I can get some short, to-the-point responses:

1. Does The Rational Response Squad assert absolute certainty that no "god" exists now or ever? If yes, how do you justify having absolute certainty about this? If no, how do you escape the charge that you also hold a position that you cannot prove empirically? I've seen your working definitions of atheism, theism, agnosticism and reviewed much of your site but saw nothing that addresses this question adequately.

No.  What seems weird is people who spend so much time believing in something that they can't prove exists.  What seems weird is people who spend so much time believing in something that doesn't exist. 

In Rationality,

Brian Sapient
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