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Andrew Sullivan often infuriates me, but when he's on, he's very on.

After a series of posts responding to some of his evangelical readers, another reader wrote the following:

As an atheist, should I be compelled to tell every Evangelical I meet that their God doesn't exist just so that I can feel better about myself?

Andrew's response is priceless:

Yes, you should, if you want to save their mind if not their soul. But I'd rather you just left them alone. For some reason, I have never felt it incumbent to tell anyone what their view of existence should be. Maybe it's the Catholic in me, but this is something I remember believing - and arguing with my mother about - when I was barely out of elementary school: I've always found evangelism to be unspeakably rude. That's my only problem with Mormons. Knocking on my door and interrupting my life to save my soul is an act of astonishing presumption and poor manners. I respond in kind.

"Unspeakably rude." That's brilliant!