I never suggested that people should be threatened by the God idea. I simply believe it's better to hear out a person and their claims if they are open enough to share them without insulting them personally.
The God believer likewise feels threatened when their whole lives are considered phoney, or ridiculous when they actually are sincere about it.
In an open discussion you are merely exchanging ideas in the spirit of trying to understand each other. Debate is another matter entirely.
I do not want someone threatening me with either world view myself.
Okay --- open discussion.
I've heard the "God idea" all my life, and for all of my life it simply made no sense, said nothing of interest, and therefore for me, it was something I could simply ignore as having no relevance to my life.
Lot's of people have told me why I should pay more attention -- you know, for reasons like, "you could go to hell and burn for eternity" and like that. But lacking any belief in God, that's always seemed like just an idle threat to me. Nobody in existence can produce a single example of a "soul in eternal hell." Just like I can't produce any evidence of a pink unicorn. You don't believe in the pink unicorn without evidence, why do you suppose I should believe in eternal torment in hell without evidence?
And I'll tell you why -- because you were taught it, you read it in a book that you were conditioned to believe was somehow really special, and really extraordinary. But not for any reason that you have ever personally experienced. You cannot, and you will not, ever show me a "soul burning in hell."
Now let's go the other way -- let's look at the more positive promises. Christians have been promised in the New Testament that if you believe enough, and if you pray enough, then you'll get what you really need. John 16: 23-24 "truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full."
And --- it doesn't happen. Christians pray every day, every hour, every minute, for the deepest desires of their hearts -- that their husband, wife, child may not die of this cancer or that disease. Then they die, because that's the way the world works. And they have no joy.
And what do they do then? They try to find a reason in their own fault why their prayers were not answered. But there is no hint in John 16 that fault could deny the answering of a prayer, is there?
So there you go -- open discussion: I see what I see, you think there's something else -- tell me what it is and what makes you think it's real.