You're working with a stereotype of atheists as being arrogant, strident, and so on. The empirical findings, however, as I pointed out, indicate otherwise. Whatever harsh tone new atheists may often take in arguments, chances are they know more about religion than the average religious practitioners do--which means atheists have challenged their beliefs by studying opposing ones.

In my case, your presumption is just comically misplaced (luckily I don't get offended by these things). I studied philosophy all throughout undergraduate and graduate schools and did a PhD in philosophy.

Do you know how philosophy differs from theology? Theology is all about protecting and rationalizing dogmas, whereas philosophy is about questioning everything. Every time I write a philosophical article--and again, I've written literally hundreds of them--I'm considering possible objections because that's what philosophers are trained to do.

Do you think it's particularly Christ-like to walk around with such depersonalizing stereotypes in your head?