Skeptics Should Argue with Theists

According to Dictionary.com [http://dictionary.reference.com...][http://dictionary.reference.com...] verb (used without object), ar·gued, ar·gu·ing. 1. to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment. 2. to contend in oral disagreement; dispute: The senator argued with the president about the new tax bill. verb (used with object), ar·gued, ar·gu·ing. 3. to state the reasons for or against: The lawyers argued the case. 4. to maintain in reasoning: to argue that the news report must be wrong. 5. to persuade, drive, etc., by reasoning: to argue someone out of a plan. 6. to show; prove; imply; indicate: His clothes argue poverty. verb (used with object), per·suad·ed, per·suad·ing. 1. to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait. 2. to induce to believe by appealing to reason or understanding; convince: to persuade the judge of the prisoner's innocence.As can be seen, only one of the 6 definitions of 'argue' involves persuasion. This is because they are linked but not synonymous. Arguing is actively tearing an opponent's case apart for the sake of furthering one's own in an aggressive manner. Persuasion, on the other hand, has the objective of advising and urging one to follow one's own viewpoint without necessarily tearing their own apart. It is about inducing one to believe in your own case as opposed to destroying their case to entertain an audience.My opponent gives anecdotal evidence of being persuaded by the 'arguments' of skeptics. They claimed to already be open minded to change their viewpoint and thus they were never Theistic to begin with. Theists truly believe in God and uphold God as flawless and omnipotent. There is nothing that can fight an omnipotent being, and nothing can come in its way. No matter how illogical their view, attacking the logic does heir views, as even my opponent concedes to this. The only thing it can ever achieve is to make atheists more atheistic and Theists more hostile towards atheists.My opponent thinks that converting Theists can be done by argument but it only offends their personal beliefs. Their core values and faith is being taunted and ridiculed, it would be like thinking that a mother who sees children taunting her son for being ugly is going to suddenly convert to the group of people that think her son is ugly. This will never happen. Whether or not her son is ugly cannot ever be known outside of one's individual per, the same as God. Arguing to the mother how her son is objectively less attractive than most children will only further her hostility towards the notion. It doesn't do anything to attack an emotionally valuable entity in the mind of an individual if you wish to convert them to that outlook.In regards to politics, abortion has actually been legalized in many nations where there are more Theists than atheists, as has gay marriage. This was only made possible by the atheists not arguing with Theists but instead by persuading them that these laws should be acceptable to them is they wish their own view to be untouched. The main reason that a lot of Theists are okay with these laws is because they realize that the mutual respect of not arguing is superior to the one where they argue their viewpoint and others argue their own.