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If you want separation, you can have separation. I do find it intriguing that the complaint there by some atheists seems to be rooted in "well why didn't god make me do it, why didn't they make me be good and set me up in such a way that I couldn't do bad things" because that seems to clash with "we want perfect freedom, no more gods needed or wanted, humanity is sufficient for itself" views around atheism.
If you don't believe god exists, hell doesn't exist, death is the end - then why cry and carry on over the non-existent? It would be like me complaining I never got my share of the gold at the end of the rainbow. God is so mean! He doesn't exist, but He's still so mean! Why isn't He Santa Claus in the sky, giving me everything I want without consequences or responsibility on my part? Well when we get FairyGodmother post-Singularity AI that makes us all immortal and rich and transhuman and colonising the entire universe so we all have our own solar systems and can get anything we want for nothing with no effort on our own parts, that'll show Him!
I think this is misrepresenting the complaint (at least the one I implicitly voiced here). The problem is not along the lines of "God wants me to be good, but I'm evil and can't help it, why did God make me this way?", and I can only see this framing emerging as a Christian (mis)interpretation of a mindset that is alien to them. Rather, it takes the form that the Christian God, as described in Christianity, is evil from the Atheist's perspective, and moreover is claimed to command everyone to do evil (as understood by the non-Christian) to earn his approval. It doesn't seem to me like the Christians I interact with (actively or passively) ever have a useful response to this, only being able to say that God is definitionally good and so the degree to which His purported nature disagrees with my understanding of the Good just is prima facie evidence of the latter being mistaken.
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