This is the point of my entire train of thought. You don't know where that path leads, but that doesn't mean you can assume it isn't a path or that it goes nowhere.

Here is the core of this entire trap they've set. As long as you believe that giving up your god leads straight to no reasoning basis for any moral code it is terrifying. You can't leave, what if you go become a pedophile or murderer or whatever type of "sinner" scares you most.

Really reflect and ask yourself how a Christian afraid of hell compares to an atheist who does the right thing simply because it is right with no existential threat? If you awoke tomorrow 100% convinced there was no god, other than not attending church what changes? I have raped and murdered everyone that I want to, have you?

I'm not trying to convince you there is no god. I'm just placing a path for intellectual retreat. I doubt you've ever had a safe place to consider the question without feeling fear. I have been an atheist 20 years now and I am not 20. I know all to well what traps have been set to keep you from even asking the question honestly. I remember how long and terrifying that journey out was.