Shakes,
Given your maladapted, indeed downright warped personality and the intellectual hobbling which leaves you unable to form a coherent and reasoned argument (yet long on gullibility, as your regular religion-hopping demonstrates, and always of the authoritarian and blindly dogmatic kind), I'd say it's anything but obvious.
The curious thing about a-o is that there is an intelligence at work - he's a sort of TW with proper sentences - and he's constructed an entire worldview that clearly makes sense to him, albeit that it's batshit crazy from top to bottom for the rest of us. It makes him unreachable I think with any sort of reason - no matter what, he'll point to his faith belief as the better answer (he told me that European countries are secular because of the "Deformation" for example) - so the intrusion of any kind of reality just cannot compute.
It's an odd spectacle, and I find it a little bit unsettling seen close up.
