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"That's quite a leap in reasoning. I have a number of reasons for caring about persons other than myself..."

Ah, but every single example you have given me is from a purely selfish viewpoint...which proves my point.

I never claimed otherwise. It still disproves your assertion that lack of belief in a transcendent God leads to a lack of concern for other people and even a desire to cause them harm.

"Then there's the matter of human empathy."

If you are counting on human empathy when the chips are down, completely separate from faith in Christ, you are setting yourself up for a huge disappointment.

I never claimed that human empathy was a universal trait, only that it is a non-divine reason that humans will look after one another.

"What you've described isn't atheism, it's sociopathy."

Atheism ends in sociopathy...always has, and always will.

Unsupported generalization.

Self-worship aka selfishness is the world's oldest and perenially most popular religion. "Ye shall be as gods!"

Every religion except true Christianity (which really isn't a 'religion'), if you dig down to the core, is man-centered; and leads to futility, emptiness and darkness.

Do I expect to convince you? Nope.

Why? Because even though the evidence is all around you; in history, in nature, in reason, in the testimony of untold millions of people who have experienced the salvation described in the New Testament; you will call all of it unsupported generalizations.

But I will pray for you.