Atheists are mentally ill

[Sword of Christ]

Eeeww.

Your definition of evidence differs from mine, and your definition of god is just creepy.

You can compare it to a romantic relationship, see the Song of Songs in the Old Testament. Mystics throughout the ages have seen that as an allegory for the love you can experience toward God in a relationship with him or her he doesn't have a specific gender as such, or you could say he has both masculine and feminine aspects.

And perhaps your evidence consists of a bunch of atheist books and scientific books written from the atheists perspective. What you want is evidence from a different source.

Christianity invented not a single one of these moral elements. It is accurate to say that I share moral qualities which are (in theory if rarely in practice) Christian. Let us also not forget that Christianity is derivative of a religion which espouses many of the opposite traits, calling for death, slavery and persecution in many forms, and does not repudiate any of those teachings.

I didn't say it did I'm saying Christianity is from God (as are the other religions to certain degree) and these are objective standards that come from God not inventions of the human mind or cultural fabrications but a reality of some kind. And we of course have the independent freewill to accept or reject this standard.

Morality (and human civilization, which could not exist without moral concepts) predates your God by millennia.

God was always there he didn't just suddenly appear one day the day Christianity arrived on the scene. People perception of him was imperfect and there was a tendency to worship idols and this is what Bible/Christ corrects.

I resent the arrogance you have every time you dismiss the east. I assure you plenty of people live outside of your country. I grew up in asia, in a muslim country, went to a chinese school and was taught chinese philosophy's idea of morality. Plenty of people live there. Your god isn't a big deal there. Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism are the big religions in my region. Christianity is big is some countries, sure, but not mine. Are we without morals? Do we not exist?

You will find God in the other religions I just think you will find more of God in Christianity. What Jesus taught was certainly very very close to the Eastern Masters. Islam is a close cousin to Christianity though I would see it as a slight corruption of what it ought to be, it's focus is more on worldly state controlled authoritarian rule. Jesus never taught anything of that sort.