It is better to live as a Christian than to live as an atheist.

I understand the points perfectly and deduced that the only logical explanation I could come up with on why an atheist would convert is through fear. Now in this case fear is a very bold and harsh statement, that's why I broke down what I meant by this "fear". You have totally misinterpreted my notion of "fear". I mean fear in the sense that they are afraid of living an atheistic life because e. g there is a lot more self-dependence needed so they turn to Christianity because many of it's teachings and ideology sounds sweet. I mentioned all this in the previous round and simply said that this was a poor reason to convert. Again you are misinterpreting me. I never said that Christians DON'T question faith, I merely said that they don't HAVE to question faith, which according to Christian teachings is true because there is already a supposedly good explanation for everything. Please don't mince my words. I believe you actually agree with me on this point: "it's true enough that God does not command me to study cosmology (for example). So, I suppose in a sense of speaking, my opponent is correct if he wants to say that Christians don't "have" to think about the origins of the universe. " However you also say that nobody has to think about such things. Yes this is true however the reason Christians don't have to think about it is because Christianity doesn't project it. As you say, God doesn't command it. However this is a solely religious reasoning. The only atheistic reasoning is either from a lack of interest or ignorance. Christianity claims that an explanation already exists therefore this is seen as a good enough reason for the majority of Christians not to question such things. Which I feel shows a certain degree of gullibility and ignorance as there is much too be learned from Science about such things if people would bother give it interest. Granted some Christians are interested in such things but many are not as they feel the answers are all laid out for them. Again I do not feel that it is worthwhile to go through life banking on what someone else tells you and just taking that for granted. "my younger atheist friends don't know the first thing about the origins of the universe. All they know is that God doesn't exist" are you saying you do know about such things? Or just that you believe you know about such things? Name one example of an atheist regime who have been happy to kill gays. Name one atheist who has had no problem sending children on to the afterlife. You are stereotyping atheists as being all pro abortion. There is no logical reason why an atheists would be more pro abortion that the average person. If you are saying that an atheist would be pro abortion just because a lot of religious people are anti-abortion then that is ridiculous. An atheists view on abortion, just like anyone Else's is based on personal opinion and reasoning. Whether or not God has the authority to judge or not is irrelevant as I have already shown why I think his judgement is ultimately immoral. I feel he is a wicked person to worship and again, I have said why in my previous argument. But of course we are not debating God's morality vs his immorality. We are debating Christian life vs Atheist life. Therefore I don't see how worshipping a cruel, immoral and unjust being is a better life than simply just worshipping life itself. Also since when was the idea of God having the authority to judge and be in charge a FACT? "Bringing up the so called "problem of evil" does not obscure the fact that my opponent was blatantly wrong in his characterization of God as a being who desires to do nothing but engage in judgement and wrath. " How would your contrary belief to this be any more right than mine? "As an aside on this last point, he accuses Christians of cherry picking the bible. That is rich criticism coming from someone who has done nothing but present a one-sided view of God's actions" Well actually pal I acknowledged the fact that an argument can be made that God, if exists, does moral things as well as immoral things however I argued that he is an overall immoral being as the idea that he has the ability to do moral things all the time yet doesn't, often with tragic, horrific implications shows an immorality on an even greater scale. Again you have minced my words. The idea that he has the capacity to help people yet at the same time is taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every day and allowing such horrific events to occur worldwide is the essence of a malevolent bully. People would have the right to say things like "God why can you take my newborn baby away who couldn't have possibly committed any immorality in their short lifetime yet you can allow a mass serial killer away with it? ". If a man beats a young child to death yet that same day saved a child from getting beaten to death do you think he would be forgiven? No of course not he would be thrown in prison, or worse . Although people would certainly question why he would commit such a horrible, cruel, immoral act when he is capable of doing a good act. How is God any different? Why should we make him an exception to cruelty and immorality. This is where the problem with Christianity lies, it teaches that it's okay that God can do such horrible things because he is God and nothing else. I feel I have already responded to your last two points several times and because I am running out of space I will keep my summary brief. Advantages atheism has over Christianity 1) Living your life without need to defer to someone's interpretation of their god's rules. 2) Living your life knowing that you are ultimately responsible for your actions. 3) Living a finite life requires you to prioritize the activities in your life. 4) Living a finite life makes you want to leave a positive legacy. 5) Living your life practically and pragmatically, without need to refer to the supernatural. 6) Living life without cognitive dissonance. No need to believe in things that are not there.