I think more context is needed to offer any kind of suggestion. I have friends that are theist that will say things like that. I don't take offense. I assume they have limited exposure to atheist. My goal is to break the stereotype of the Imagine in their head. But if I was at a bar and someone over heard a conversation and started jumping in with that kind of stuff... It would be a different reaction.
What will you want to do? Do you feel threatened by the diagnosis?
Bite their kid.
I don't know that it's ever been insinuated to my face that I have a mental disorder. Well, not because of my being an atheist anyways.
I've been told I am wrong and that I will come to realize that when I am burning in hell for all eternity. But, I've learned a lot of things the hard way so...
They don't have room to talk what with their imaginary friends and all.
But they do....and if you pay attention you will see they get infuriated, they insult you, call you ignorant with an intensity that grows with each fact you present to them. Their fear of being wrong takes over; the saddest part is they aren't even aware they are scared.
I let them rant...as I do with any person affected by idiocy or any other mental disease.
They think they have room to talk but they don't
Start worshiping Satan, because apparently it's a step up.