Tip #45 Don't Assume Illegitimacy

I object to the moral basis displayed by many Christians of a rules-for-rules-sake morality as reductionist and bounding compassion and I get told that I just don't want to have rules at all and that's why I'm an atheist. I say that a deity with the proposed characteristics could be reasonably predicted to do X and I get told that I'm putting God in a box.

Neither of these are then followed up with any argument as to why the morality of the Christian in the conversation isn't arbitrary rules-for-rules-sake or that X isn't a reasonable prediction. They're just given a characterization and dismissed. And, that's for occasions in which I'm fairly certain the respondents were attempting something of an honest conversation.
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