In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes:

I do it in self preservation. It can be hard to resist responding to either
one of them when they make such idiotic statements.

Translation: "I can't make a valid counter-argument to them so I will call
them names and attack their character instead."

I'd rather use my time in talking to more rational people.

Translation: "I want to be among My Kind and those who Believe what
I Believe."