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I don't tend to react to satire, or sarcasm or irony, I pretty much say what I mean and that is what I react to the most... I do know people and love people who believe...who are Christians and who have belief and who believe this stuff strongly, and as much as I want to argue with them, I don't want to show them disrespect. And I will say that that is a ****ing stupid...argument, but that's not disrespect<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gofaKoCGrDk Penn Point - Conservapedia or Troll Site? - Penn Point]</ref>}}
I don't tend to react to satire, or sarcasm or irony, I pretty much say what I mean and that is what I react to the most... I do know people and love people who believe...who are Christians and who have belief and who believe this stuff strongly, and as much as I want to argue with them, I don't want to show them disrespect. And I will say that that is a ****ing stupid...argument, but that's not disrespect<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gofaKoCGrDk Penn Point - Conservapedia or Troll Site? - Penn Point]</ref>}}
After refusing to debate the Christian apologist [[Sye Ten Bruggencate]], Penn Jillette said, “I’m not trained in debate. It’s turning conversation into competition."<ref>[http://debunkingatheists.blogspot.com/2011/09/penn-jillettes-greatest-disappearing.html Penn Jillete's greatest disappearing act yet!]</ref> See also: [[Atheism and cowardice]] and [[Atheist hypocrisy]]
A [[National Public Radio]] reviewer of one of atheist [[Penn Jillette]]'s books found the book "showy and assaultive" in terms of its use of [[profanity]].<ref>[http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/08/16/139669958/penn-jillettes-god-no-an-atheist-libertarian-on-tricks-bacon-and-the-tsa National Public Radio [NPR) review of the book ''God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales'' by Penn Jillette]</ref> See: [[Atheism and profanity]]
== Freethinker moniker ==
== Freethinker moniker ==