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I don't like infinity of any kind. I oppose it strongly, it's a kind of mysticism by my view.
BUT, until it will still be officially permitted in mathematics, I will use it to discredit. To show how problematic it really is.
Ah, that explains a thing or two. You're not trying (or at least not trying very hard) to make what you say make sense because you want it not to make sense, "to discredit", and you don't expect it to make sense because you're using concepts you think don't make sense themselves.
But the actual likely outcome is what's happening here. No one is saying (and I bet no one is thinking) "this doesn't entirely make sense -- obviously the notion of infinity is problematic" but some people are thinking "huh, Thomas seems either confused or unreasonably unwilling to clarify".
If you want to discredit something, the first step is to take it seriously.