You have not assented to my very reasonable conditions in order to continue; any reasonable person will see that you fall firmly within one or more of the four categories mentioned in my previous e-mail.

Of the ten clauses in your miniature inquisition, I denied only two, and both denials were conditioned on terminological clarifications that you here don't even dispute. It's laughably obvious who here is being reasonable and who isn't.  Since your every substantive criticism of my writings has been rebutted, I remain happy to let my record of reasonableness in this discussion speak for itself.

P.S.  The most arrogant of the arrogant will never admit to being arrogant, no matter what the level of proof (barring a miraculous change of heart).

"Arrogant adj. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance".

It's increasingly clear to me why I'm sometimes called "arrogant" by people who disagree with my positions but are frustrated by their lack of good arguments against them.  They sense that I highly value the ideas constituting the worldview to which I subscribe, and they apparently confuse my esteem for those ideas with esteem for myself. Certain Christians may be especially susceptible to this confusion because of their belief that fundamental value and truth can only be created on the whim of one immensely important being. They do not agree with me that fundamental value and truth can be generated by any rational being through a process subject to repetition and verification. When I assert what I see as fundamental values and truths, and do so with a confidence forged by the rigorousness of that process, they apparently think that I'm assuming a godlike status for myself. (Or maybe they just think that using big words or writing a lot is the same as arrogance. Who knows? It's hard to tell, since they're never willing to discuss it.)

In fact, I'm just a very small man who stands on the shoulders of giants.  My only pride is in my courage to open my eyes and test my beliefs.  Only a few humans who have ever lived can take credit for any fundamental scientific or philosophical insights, but each of us has the challenge and opportunity of facing the evidence and choosing a defensible worldview.

God Bless

I'm not sure what your incantation here is supposed to accomplish. If you think that your blessing could possibly change the actions or judgment of your deity toward me, then your deity is shockingly fickle. If you think that your blessing might possibly affect my beliefs about Christianity, you're quite naive. If this incantation is just an attempt to demonstrate (to yourself?) that you harbor no animosity toward me, then perhaps you should examine why you might feel the need to so vouch.

Since my value system already makes it clear whether I wish my fellow beings well, I'll make explicit just one caveat to the general enlightenment that one might justifiably surmise I wish for you. Your conscious existence will be but a blink compared to the eternity you claim to believe awaits you. If indeed you are determined to squander most of that precious and fleeting existence under the delusion that your mind is immortal, then I hope that any doubt or realization to the contrary comes either early or not at all. No well-intentioned being deserves to have as his final thought the realization that his fleeting gift of consciousness was squandered on vain hopes of immortality.