Q: Why can an atheist be a "better person" than a Christian? Because humans have free will. But our standard for "good person" is skewed — we judge by how someone treats us, ignoring whether they love God. Rejecting the Creator is a massive moral failure regardless of philanthropy. We evaluate select pockets while ignoring what matters most to God.

Free will explains why anyone can behave kindly regardless of beliefs. But "good person" judgments are biased toward how people treat us, not toward God. Loving God is the greatest commandment — an atheist rejecting the Creator fails the most important moral test. We see pockets of behavior and wrongly extrapolate total goodness.