The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action." [Albert Einstein]
On the one hand, the lack of evidence to support the myth of Christianity requires an inordinate amount of energy and time constructing elaborate arguments, most or all of which are built on one fallacy of argument or another. That time and energy would be better served in finding solutions to all of life's problems - especially the problem of a religion that claims we are designed to be dependent upon a church - rather than arguing about an infinite abstraction. Arguing about an infinite immaterial God is like arguing who has counted nearest to infinity.
On the other hand, those who claim they truly know more about what the word "God" means than you do, and use this claim to support why they and their ideas must be accepted as the basis of morality, never accepted the arguments made by others who make the same claims, even as they demand that their own arguments are enough to prove they are right.
In truth, their arguments only prove to themselves they are right, even if they do not do so to anyone else. And as they see it, if they are convinced by such arguments, then that is all you should require to accept their claims. And anyone who fails to see the logic of their arguments as superior to everyone else making the same arguments, so the Christian will assure you, deserves to be tortured forever for failing to "believe" the Christian claims, regardless of how immoral Christians often behave and how chalked full of logical fallacies the Christian arguments are.
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