"incessant attacks on Christianity ... sneers at Christianity ... slandering Christians ... vitriolic sneers at Christianity ... strong antireligious prejudices

"incessant attacks on Christianity ... sneers at Christianity ... slandering Christians ... vitriolic sneers at Christianity ... strong antireligious prejudices" Sheesh. His main point is a reasonable one, but this sort of righteous fury against the infidels is off-putting. Good rule of effective rhetoric: make it seem you're being totally fair to the other guy. Then the neutrals might listen to you, rather than instantly pattern-matching you as an obvious partisan.