Debating Theists is entirely pointless
I do not mean this in the sense that it doesn't do any good, I think these debates do show how dishonest and rediculous apologists of religion can be. I am more talking about debating people for the purpose of convincing them, mostly in the private sense, with a family member for example.
Apologists for various religions frequently fall back on the idea that god is not provable with science. That no evidence exists because it is not there. They say things like: "Due to gods nature as an all powerful being he exists outside of time", or something like that. The same applies when questioning god's perfection and allegedly all-good nature: "How can you know what God has planned? He is incomprehensibly smarter than you".
They don't seem to understand that these arguments are void. It's a circular argument and literally anyone can make up a similarly realistic god: "If you don't sacrifice a cat for the slipper-man each night you will go to slipper hell where you will be beaten with spiked slippers forever. You see, thats a bad punishment, so maybe pray to him just in case he is real.".
So whats my proof slipper man is real? Literally nothing. People have this weird respect for religion, but there is absolutely no evidence of any god at all, none. Modern versions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam are the result of a millenia old religions that evolved from an earlier (completely different compared to what is it now) religion and have had thousands of people dedicating their life to being professional mental gymnastics experts behind them. You can make up any rediculous story and then argue that the story justifies itself in an unprovable way. There is a chance that a god-like figure exists, but there is also technically a chance a planet populated by unicorns will conquer earth soon, so.
Is it really so hard to accept that we just don't have all the answers? I'm kind of sick of seeing debates on religion, why is it that we have to pretend like it's not a delusion like any other, like as though these two ideas are comparable in their quality and equally valid? Why is it such a taboo to tell people that their imaginary friend telling everyone what to do is weird and bad?