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Christians think so highly of their own ideals that they have made them into a religion so they could worship them as their god. And mostly because the Christian is quite convinced that they are so special, and mostly because of their "faith," that they clearly deserve to live forever, even if nothing and no one else does. 

By turning the worship of their own human ideals into a religion, they weekly assure themselves, and labor to indoctrinate their children, that it is always better to die as a martyr than to live with the admission that such ideals are just as deeply flawed as any other, because like all ideals, they are purely human.

The Christian denies that this is what they are doing, of course, insisting instead that their "ideals" come straight from God alone, as if their mind were a radio that was, by virtue of being "Christian," finely tuned to receive such divine communications, and with little to no static.

Ask them to offer any evidence that such "ideals" are not purely their own, and they will either refuse the request, or challenge you to prove they are not. That any atheist can equally make the exact same claims, and offer the very same refusal or challenge, never causes the Christian to question the legitimacy of their claims. 

Ask them how they "know" for a fact that their "ideals" actually come from God, and they will tell you they have "faith," which is a willingness to believe something is true, not only in the absence of any evidence to support it, but in contrast to any evidence that suggests or proves it is in fact untrue. 

They also think that the fastest way to get to an eternal paradise that proves once and forever just how right they had always been, is by dying for the conviction of just how right they truly are. 

And they say that thinking this way is what makes them humble, as if to say, if it were not for their religion that convinces them all of how "right" they are about everything, they’d be of hell of a lot worse!

And when you tell them it can’t get any worse, they respond  “oh yes it can - watch this!”

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