I think the biggest difficulty in being an evangelical skeptic and atheist is that communicating new ideas to people who are completely resistive to them is incredibly difficult.  I try and try to get people  outside of the intellectual prison they have confined themselves to and yet they refuse to come out even though I'm holding the keys to them.  They refuse to think.

So often I encounter someone who, no matter how eloquently I explain something or no matter how well thought out my provocative questions are, simply shuts down a discussion with a snide remark or an assertion of fact without actually backing it up.

Who else feel like this?