Given the context, I understood you to be saying that way to persuade theists was to demonstrate that atheists have higher social status.

I said something kind of similar to that so I'll accept it for the sake of the argument without implying any endorsement of the claim.

Regardless of the sociological truth of that assertion, we both know that "high-status" is not correlated with "correct beliefs."

I actually doubt this is true, that is there probably is such a correlation---the world is unfair like that. But putting that aside even if I assume the claims you make in the parent are true it still doesn't mean I had any particular premise (or conclusion) about the sanity line.

Did I misunderstand you?

I think you resolved the ambiguous 'this' in palladias's comment in a different direction.