Are Atheists using Intellectually Dishonest Arguments?

[vorlon13]

Seems realistic enough to me.  Christians have fashioned themselves a new golden calf in the form of magic book.  They'd spite god himself in favor of the jots and tittles.

I'm talking about more immediately than that... not about how Christianity has developed over time, but in the face of witnessing an awe-inspiring miracle... to then figuratively the next day go out and start worshiping something else doesn't make much sense.

What was it they found so uninspiring with the plagues Moses had inflicted on Egypt ??

Egypt was a shithole anyhow, (hence their desire to leave) and the plagues weren't that much of an incremental deterioration in the conditions there ??