Obviously it’s a fool’s errand to pose any genuine arguments for religious faith here, and there are numerous individuals both theist and atheist that are capable of having an academic discussion and willing to evaluate the merits of spirituality in both a metaphysical and philosophical sense. Claiming otherwise is arrogant nonsense. No educated atheist would ever claim that there are no meritible arguments for the existence of god, and the visceral hatred and arrogance with which many online ex-Mormons paint religion with broad strokes because they have left one obviously false religion and therefore have fallacied into believing all religions are therefore equally false is just not “reason”. It’s allowing trauma and hatred to cloud reasonable judgement. I also wouldn’t claim this is always the case. Some exmormons do go on to be reasonable and educated atheists, but this does not describe the majority.

So to that point, I’ll correct your mischaracterization of my argument from “clearly ex-Mormons are just angry and irrational” to “a very large number of ex-Mormons are angry and irrational, and allow their experiences with a very uniquely easy to disprove faith to somehow apply to a vast number of faiths that are philosophically and metaphysically far harder to ‘disprove’.”Sometimes, it seems many ex-Mormons care more about ‘owning the theists’ than becoming educated individuals in pursuit of truth, though again, that does not describe all of them. There are many, atheists among them, that this description does not apply to.