Theist trope: "Is life just a game?", what's the best way to rerpond?

[Alex K]

No, because games are miniature realities in which skills and behavior can be tested and trained. Their whole point is that they are not life but a simulation. (not taking into account gambling or pro sports where results of games are designed on purpose to affect real life.)

Thanks for that. I'll have to mention that. Thing is, the people have the slogan "is life just a game?" do say that life is where we are tested and trained in preparation for, as they call it, "the day of judgement". So I don't know how helpful mentioning that is, though I suppose it adds credence to the idea that it's the Theist who thinks that life is a game.

Yes, exactly. Don't we observe this kind of absurd projection all the time in conversations with believers?

"We believers are humble, while you atheists think you are God! You atheists think you can do whatever you want! Atheism is just a religion anyways. You atheists think life is just a game! You don't have any moral standards!"
To which the answer is of course - 1. No, we don't think we are God, because we don't believe in gods. But you believe the creator of the whole universe's made it just for you, cares where you touch yourself and helps your football team win, but it is us who need to learn humility? 2. No, you can sin and then ask for forgiveness with Jesus afterwards, we have to live with the consequences of our actions 3. So, you are saying religions are a bad thing, then? 4. No, we only have one life to live, while you think it's just a test run for eternity. 5. Well, we have to work hard to get our ethics right, you just do what you're told and think that's moral (or so you like to claim although you don't really). That's not moral, that's blind obedience to a sky dictator.

The list surely goes on, but there's a pattern. Believers take the most problematic aspects of their faith and accuse nonbelievers of the same thing. I'm at a loss what the mechanism behind that is.