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My argument is not to do with belief in God, but more to do with other beliefs that surround it like creationism and other theories which are just nonsense and i believe can often quite easily be countered by scientific arguments.
When the religious people reject science because it goes against a 2000 year old book of questionable origin it just strengthens my non-belief but this is why I have more respect for some of the philosophical systems like Confucianism and Buddhism because they do not refute science in any way however I don't think they promote the idea of a specific God entity either.

Another intriguing fact about the Christian God is that without any form of hell he wouldn't exist. While Heaven is offered as the reward for living a virtuous life, hell is the penalty for being bad and the organized religions mainly use fear tactics to keep people returning each week and putting money in the offering plate. Without the penatly of hell people would put a lot less money in the plate each week.