A really hard question on Satan and deception.

[Captain Scarlet]

It is amazing how atheist describe Christians. We are the fools who believe in a make believe God and they don't have a clue that the god of this world Satan, the fallen one, has blinded their eyes from the truth. If God did not exist there would be no existence at all. The periodic table of the elements is not my daddy. And I am not a monkey’s uncle. All God ever does is ask me to trust him. I do and I will face my death when the time comes with high anticipation. I will never regret my decision to follow him. Not here to save anyone, just shine some light into the darkness. Godschild, together we can chase 10,000.

The brilliant Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam put the response to this abject nonsense much more eloquently than I could ever do, in the 12 century. For centuries before and after Muslims, Christians and other maniacal faiths try to convert the 'lost', despite the total lack of support for any of it. Do you think we or other atheists of the past haven't heard it all before? Do you think you have the secrets of the universe that we don't? Do you know the mind of god and are the only ones able to interpret scripture? Do you believe that scripture was inspired by a god? Do you think you are going to paradise? Over to Omar:

Look not above, there is no answer there;
Pray not, for no one listens to your prayer;
Near is as near to God as any Far,
And Here is just the same deceit as There.

And do you think that unto such as you;
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew:
God gave the secret, and denied it me?--
Well, well, what matters it! Believe that, too.

"Did God set grapes a-growing, do you think,
And at the same time make it sin to drink?
Give thanks to Him who foreordained it thus--
Surely He loves to hear the glasses clink!"