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You might enjoy reading this, by Stefan Molyneux.
It’s also on YouTube

Against the Gods? A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism

Interesting read. That sort of line of argument is just the sort of thing that tends to get the backs of the religious up, though, so I don’t bother using them. I may be convinced that religion is false, and possibly even harmful (while conceding that it does have its benefits, too), but the faithful don’t and won’t see it that way. You can’t argue them out of their faith (and I have no particular interest in doing so), so I just don’t go down that road.

I do believe that the declared atheists of the world still have a lot more to fear from the faithful than the other way around. I’m not particularly bothered by what other people choose to believe (at least as long as they don’t use it to justify interfering with my rights, which they often do), but it seems to drive the religious crazy that there are those of us who don’t buy into their faith, and they ascribe all sorts of attributes to us to try to explain it to themselves (or intimidate us into believing with them).