This is something that's been bothering me for a couple weeks. I got a call from a family member I haven't seen in over 20 years. He's my senior by 30+ years. We hung out for a few hours one afternoon. On the drive home, he suddenly became a little hesitant before he spat out, "So, I'm not sure how to say this, but..." and I immediately knew where this question was going, because it's the exact same formula used by all thumpers. And he asked me about my godlessness and how an intelligent creator was the only way the creation of the world made any sense and on and on. And he asked me what proof I have of my position (because he hadn't done any research himself, and expected me to spoon feed it to him). I explained that the burden of proof is on him. He's the one claiming that a (Christian) god exists, so the burden of proof is on him. I even used an example of a unicorn; if I claim unicorns exist, then it's on me to prove that unicorns exist. But that made him mad. And I asked him, isn't it curious that you're a Christian, and you were born in the USA? Whereas if you'd been born in Pakistan or Somalia or Denmark it'd be a different story? And he wasn't willing to discuss that. So only after he took the privilege of saying everything he wanted to say, and simultaneously cutting short my reasonable rebuttals, he felt gracious enough to say, "Well, you're over 21 now, you have the right to your own opinion." Are you kidding me?? I haven't been able to stop thinking about how condescending, smug, and disrespectful this was to say to me. What do you think my response should have been? I was so angry and irritated at this point (I hate arguing) that I couldn't even think of a good comeback.