Theism vs. atheism

An idea came to me while digesting the recent debate I watched between an atheist and a Christian. The Christian is Dinesh D'Souza. You can watch the debate by going to King's College news site and looking for the "Watch the debate" link.
http://www.tkc.edu/advancement/media/newsrelease.asp?id=55

Also Dinesh spoke at our church "Dinesh D’Souza on What’s So Great about Christianity?"
http://cedarpark.org/resources/media/

The idea is, that while debating atheists, to defend Theism instead of religion. And what I mean by that distinction is to consider the aspects of religion that are man made, and to limit or eliminate them from what is defended. And to consider the aspects of what it means that there is a God and why it is important to investigate who and what God is, and the rules He has made for us. Possibly this could thwart some arguments by atheists that put down Christianity - you can surprise them by agreeing with them that religion (how to best observe God) is man made, but that you disagree on the point of the existence of God, and therefore the legitimacy of investigating His existence and what His rules are. I think a healthy part of that does include
how religion has positively impacted civilization, although not perfectly, because it is not ultimately from God. Religion is just our way of studying who He is and in fact is a science as well as an art. And from there, it can flow that Christianity has made the best contributions to civilization, as well as having it's mistakes, because it has identified God, but it is still man made, so is admittedly flawed. Of course this conclusion of which religion has best identified God would not need to be part of the base debate of atheism vs theism. Using this distinction between theism and religion, could possibly reveal that the whole argument,"that atrocities committed by Christianity indicate that we have a flawed belief and therefore there is no God" is pointless, if you agree with the atheist that the religion of Christianity is man made in its final form. And then add, "Just as their atheism is man made."

God (Christ) made us with the ability to reason and choose, we chose to deny Him. Every denial and deviation from Christ - every man made understanding - including every form of religion, including every practiced form of christianity, has resulted in some amount of injustice. Atheism is far removed from Christ, and therefore you see many more atrocities like Stalin, Hitler, Mao etc. If we can discover who God is and live by the rules and laws that He has created, we will no longer have injustice. (Side note: one of His laws is that now that we are fallen, we can not get back up on our own, we need his atonement for ourselves, and His ultimate return and rule, to have the justice we seek.)

Jesus, please forgive all my sins and be my Lord, Amen.