The quote from Sartre about antisemites is applicable here:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past

It’s the same with conservatives in general these days - they either don’t engage with these topics at all, or if they do, they do so dishonestly.

A lot of them are trained on the Bible which varies from self contradictory to batshit fruit wibble. Just like their god on earth.