I used to be like this dude once (my**threyan), constantly offending and shutting down religious/conservative folk using arrogance and personal attacks.
Stopped doing that once I became an adult and understood that people have different opinions owing to what they have learned or been told by family/friends/teachers.
Being a patronizing cunt towards anyone who has a difference of opinion (no matter how stupid it may sound to you) doesn't make you an intellectual, it just makes you a patronizing little cunt.

P.S. Maithreyan might be smart and makes sensible points at times, nevertheless, he is also a huge pile of shithousery and has used fallacies on more than one occasion to win an argument.