Thanks. Agreed. He's trying to save face now. He came on with assumed expertise, arrogance, and condescension but bellied up quickly when challenged on his hostility toward unbelievers. He was called out for a series of comments revealing his atheophobic bigotry and chose to ignore them all by instead deflecting away from his comments and my critique of them.
The modern religious apologist is disoriented by the modern skeptic's confidence. When I was born in the middle of the last century, theists were accustomed to silencing those critics foolish enough to challenge their cultural hegemony. Atheists were declared immoral, and it was accepted. They were deemed unfit to teach, adopt, coach, serve on juries or give expert testimony, and many considered an atheist marrying into the family worse than any other marginalized, law-abiding group including homosexuals and Muslims.
That's almost all gone now, although many still see atheists as unfit to hold public office. And with the rise of the best-selling atheist writers and the Internet, atheists have a voice and are respectable outside of church circles. It's the church that gets no respect now. Look at how it's treated in the entertainment media. When are priests or pastors shown as moral leaders, or the church as a force for good in movies and television?
This video from a hugely popular nineties sitcom says it all, and it's actually a little more balanced than most, with some semi-positive comments about God and the religious:
This one's pretty funny as well:
What's the message in those? Is it that the church is respectable or the opposite? And it's hammered into the culture 24/7 now. That can only lead to one outcome, and the rise of the "nones" confirms it.
But the believer isn't watching those shows. He's going to church, where things as are they were a half a century ago, where everybody still respects the pastor and nobody gives him back talk. Then he encounters modern secular culture as is the case here on RF, and he's surprised.
And this isn't his only cultural crisis. People are getting darker and gayer and coming up with new pronouns to offend and confound him. Women want to be treated as equals and not fondled at work. He's having more trouble hiring wage slaves. People are openly calling him bigot, and he really doesn't like that. His advantages all seem to be slipping away, and he is afraid of "being replaced." He can only take comfort by reporting to us that it is all foretold and part of God's plan.