I hate these bait-and-switch discussions.

The faither starts by asking why you don't believe. Almost immediately, he broadens it to a largely theoretical discussion in which he wants you to be making the argument that no faith of whatever kind has substance or value.

He is just biding his time, though. The moment you admit that, yes, it is not impossible for something resembling gods somewhat to exist somewhere, he says "So what about joining my church, then?"

No, sorry. Save your hypotheticals. You come in here dragging the hoary old carcass of mainstream American Christianity, you can damn well remain shackled to that rotting hulk of an ancient death-cult.