Yeah. I do like to persuade people. Often you encounter such things. Yet you never persuade someone if you don't make the attempt. :) I like to be persuaded too. It happens sometimes. Not so much with religion it is hard for me to look at written religions and not shake my head. Some of the things people can believe and still claim to know science. A big one for me... I loved Noah's Ark as a story as a child. Was probably my favorite bible story, and I had toys of it, and coloring books, and all of that jazz. Then I get older learn science, learn about gene pools, how many friggin animals exist, and the fact that two of anything is insufficient for a gene pool to survive, let alone the space would need to be far more massive than that design. I kind of look at everything that way now. Religions feel like human simplistic writing to me now. The ideas feel simple, and not very well thought out. Of course it is hard to even start thinking that way until I stopped listening to appeals to authority. "Why is XYZ?" "You need to have faith", or "God wants it that way" just don't work once you no longer have an appeal to authority and you view asking questions as a positive thing.
So I get it... I do. I am willing to talk to people, and I do realize some people are not. That is fine and a choice each person should be able to make.