You're going about it incorrectly. Knowledge only comes from experience (empiricism). Faith is not a path to truth. It is the quickest way to accumulate false and unfalsifiable beliefs.
That's a strange depiction of what atheists believe about themselves. Most of us are atheistic humanists, meaning we seek truth through the application of reason to evidence and moral excellence by applying reason to the dictates of the conscience, which for most is that which promotes the greatest well-being of the greatest number as they define it (utilitarianism, Golden Rule).
What an ugly form of your religion it is that teaches you to think that way. It's really disgusting that it would scapegoats the ones who reject it and can say why to promote itself on their backs. Where would Christianity be without its defamations, its lies to children and to as many of their parents that it can keep in that juvenile state (look at your words here), and the swords of the Roman Empire, the crusaders, and the conquistadores?
We reject your religion and its standards. Of course you frame it that way. That's what your Bible teaches in multiple defamatory statements about unbelievers. Look at how ugly this is:
[1] "The fool says in his heart,'There is no God.' They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good" - Psalm 14:1
[2] "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." - Revelation 21:8
[3]"Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?"- 2 Corinthians 6:14
[4] Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ." - 1 John 2:22
[5] "Whoever is not with me is against me" - Luke 11:23
[6] "They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity." - Ephesians 4:18-24
Altogether, your book depicts unbelievers as corrupt, vile, wicked, abominable, godless vessels of darkness in the service of evil, not one of which does any good, all greedy to practice every kind of impurity, to be shunned, fit to be burned alive forever as enemies of a good god, and the moral equivalent of murderers and whoremongers.
And you call this a religion of love. No thanks. I can do better.
Your version of accountability and mine aren't alike, and you are correct that I will not be told what to do by an ancient book written by people who had no problem with slavery or autocracy and who didn't know where the rain came from or where the sun went at night. What do such people have to teach a self-actualized, autonomous humanist who is comfortable without gods and religions about anything?
The god you worship is a moral and intellectual failure as your book describes it. I have a better understanding of love, truth, and rectitude than that book offers or its rendition as the church in contemporary life. This religion has nothing to offer me. You have nothing to offer me.
I leave that gloomy worldview to people willing to believe it. How about you and they worry about sin and hell and the devil for me? How about you live in a world that you have been convinced is lost and getting worse while I live in a world free of all of that. My world is actually a very good one, but maybe that's because I've avoided the extremely negative indoctrination of your religion.
Recently, I was visited by the Jehovah's Witnesses. The visit began by assuming as you do that the world was a terrible place, getting worse. They seemed to assume that I agreed with that. I did not.
I explained that although many live difficult lives, the world is also a wonderful place for many, and that I was happy being in it. That was literally the end of the discussion. They said thank you and moved along, which surprised me. Why did they give up so quickly and easily? Were they unprepared for and stymied by my answer? That didn't seem possible, but what else could it be? My point is that if I didn't see the world as going to hell in a bucket, it seems that they thought they had nothing to say to me. And they were correct.
How gloomy is their world and yours? How many believers have stated that their beliefs are what gives their life meaning. They see the atheist's life as hopeless and empty, because that's what they think their lives would be if they lost their faith. What kind of existence is that? Who did that to them?
Here's a verse from Dylan's Desolation Row which I believe captures that emptiness and poverty of spirit:
Ophelia, she's 'neath the window; for her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday she already is an old maid
To her, death is quite romantic; she wears an iron vest
Her profession's her religion, her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah's great rainbow
She spends her time peeking into Desolation Row
That's right on the money. Poor Ophelia, already a shell of a person at 22, a professional, lifeless religious zealot, whose gaze is fixed on Noah's great rainbow (the hope for salvation) and experiencing her world around her as desolation.