MatthiasGould
Alhamdulillah!
Haha, I was thinking the same thing.
Same here, only without Islam (again).
Are you my Muslim doppelgänger?
Haha that made me laugh!
A lot of anti-theists seem to have a very rudimentary knowledge of religions. Some of them may know a certain religious text quite well {from my experience, this is disappointingly rare, to the point where I've heard people say embarassingly stupid things}, but only seem to have knowledge of the surface of the text. Not so good when it comes to mysticism, metaphor, allegory, or anything of the like.
This seems to be an issue I come across time and time again, which is further complicated by the fact that my particular holy text is in Arabic, a language that my debater will likely not understand, whilst I do, and so some of my points will likely be lost on the majority as it draws particular attention to specific meanings of Arabic words or word order or grammar.
What disappoints me is, any time I've tried to explain the way they're looking at things is too simple, or not quite right, I've been told to "quit preaching". Although they can go on a tirade against religions, painting with a broad brush for ages. There's even atheists who think you can't be a fundy atheist.
Thankfully though, the majority of atheists I've bumped into have been nice enough, even if they don't believe it.
Same here.