Dreamer, honey, don’t you think you’re being just a tad–well, unfortunately, the only word that comes to mind is “arrogant”, but that’s not really the word I want. What I mean is, aren’t you speaking a little bit too soon, in deciding that this thread was somehow a failure? You stated your position, so big deal, now everybody knows where you stand. That’s a bad thing? Not necessarily. And who are you to say that God can’t work through seeming “failure”? Look at Peter–a failure. Look at David–screwed up. Eh?
And anyway…
What did you expect to happen? That hordes of Dopers would suddenly get saved and post, “Thank you for opening my eyes to Jesus”? If that was what you expected to happen, then yeah, I guess it’s a failure.
But look, honey, all this thread was, it was just a conversation. I dunno how much time you spend on message boards in general, and on the SDMB in particular, but the important thing is, every thread is what amounts to a simple conversation–not a life-changing experience, not a voice-from-out-the-burning-bush epiphany. Just a few minutes of idle chitchat. Sometimes it’s chitchat about religion, sometimes it’s chitchat about Britney Spears. That’s the way message boards work.
So big deal, you stopped by and had a conversation with a few people on the SDMB about your religion, and you didn’t convert anybody, and some of them were rude, and some of them actually made fun of you, but that’s okay. You’re telling me you never witnessed to anybody before and had them make fun of you, and had to break off the conversation and go about your business without actually converting him? Happens all the time in the real world, sweetie. If you’re expecting to go even 1 for 20 in your real-life witnessing, then you’re just being unrealistic. You can go on witnessing for years without actually converting anybody, or even getting a fair hearing.
But the important thing is that when someone tunes you out while you’re trying to witness to him, that you don’t get all huffy and say, “Oh, well, all right then, I’ll go away now.”
Well, do you?
Anyway, trying to witness on a message board is very different from face-to-face witnessing because there’s no personal element, and people here feel much freer to be rude and confrontational than they would if they knew you IRL.
Witnessing here in GD has even less success than real life witnessing. Other people before you have tried, and failed, most notably FriendofGod. Pay close attention to Tucker’s response to his “farewell”. Point taken? 
Also, I dunno how you were taught to do witnessing, but I was taught that you choose your quarry carefully, so to speak. That is, you decide who you’re going to witness to, and you pray for that specific person for a while before you actually broach the subject. This gives the Holy Spirit time to work. But here, obviously, you couldn’t do that, because there are hundreds of people here, and they’re all totally anonymous.
So if there’s a lesson to learn here, it’s that you just went about your witnessing wrong, is all. You jumped in with both feet, went off half-cocked, whatever, and–surprise, surprise!–it didn’t work. So what else is new? [shrug]
But, anyway, I hope you’ll knock off the “I guess I’ll go eat worms” stuff and stick around. There are other things to talk about here besides Christianity, you know. Not every subject has to have a religous “take” on it. We all have a good time shooting the breeze about all kinds of secular subjects, and I for one never feel obliged to weigh in with a “well, the Bible says…” on each and every thread. I solve the problem of “debating whether God is good or evil” by simply staying out of those threads. I don’t see that God commands me to take up the cudgels every time some atheist says Bad Stuff about Him. He’s a big boy, He can take care of Himself, been doing it for a lonnnng time now. 
And while at first an Internet message board may have seemed like a heaven-sent opportunity for mass witnessing, now you know that when the face-to-face element is missing, it’s doomed to failure.
Relax, enjoy yourself, let go of the “religion” stuff. People here can be really very nice, as long as you’re not preachin’ at 'em all the time. Nobody here hates you, I guarantee it. The people who were rude don’t hate you, they’re just giving you a sort of medium-sized " :rolleyes: " and getting on with their lives. They’ve seen lots of this “religious fanatic” stuff before in GD, and they know they’ll see it again. They’re used to it. They reserve their true annoyance for those who post merely out of bigotry and ignorance, and who waste their time, especially with the slow server, with poorly thought-out, illogical, stupid OPs. I don’t think anybody would say this thread was a waste of time, because if they had, they’d have said so. Loudly. And you’d have had a Pit thread started in your honor.
Which you haven’t. So don’t think you’re SDMB Public Enemy #1–don’t flatter yourself. You have to be a lot more annoying than this to get a Pit thread.