A “Made-up Deity”...?

Where do unbelievers come up with the audacity to claim that the God of Christianity is a “made up deity”? I imagine they believe they are being 'scientific' about it. After all, they have been led to believe that science teaches that no one can rise from the dead, no one can perform miracles, and that there is no God. Never mind that science teaches us none of these things. (In fact, science tells us that there are things it cannot measure because some things cannot be measured by the scientific method.)

People who don't believe talk about science as if it is a worldview or a philosophy for life. (That is actually not science at all, but the modern paganism for our age.) However, what these people forget is that science is actually a method for the empirical study of matter and records. This method came to science from the techniques used my theologians of the Protestant Reformation such as Luther and Calvin. And while this method might not help us as much with ontological questions such as "Is there a God?", it can help us in other areas about the God of Christianity since He has left his physical footprint (literally) upon our world. The birth, life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is not a pagan myth or a secular superstition (cloaked in the language of scientism), but is a historical fact that exists and is verifiable on the same proofs as Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, the repeal of the Corn Laws in Great Britain, or Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House. There are plenty of scholarly books that have been published over the last 10 years on this, and I would be happy to recommend some of them (such as some of the recent books by New Testament scholar N.T. Wright). However, the evidence for Jesus Christ and what he did has been an unquestioned actuality since for nearly 2000 years. In light of this, why does it have to be Christians who are making up some deity to make themselves feel better? Maybe it is the God-deniers of our era who are making up conspiracy theories (cloaked carefully in language that sounds scientific to the uneducated or overconfident mind) so that they might believe what they want rather than believe what they ought.