in God merely because they cannot handle  the reality of death and seek solace in  

the concept of an afterlife"  represents a strawman fallacy.

This fallacy arises from the oversimplification  

and misrepresentation of the complex  reasons behind Christian belief in God.

The atheist's argument does not acknowledge  the array of philosophical, theological,  

and personal motivations that Christians  often cite as the foundation of their faith.

Instead, it reduces their belief to a  simplistic and not universally applicable  

explanation centered around fear of death  and the need for afterlife assurance.

This approach effectively creates a  distorted version of Christian beliefs,  

which is easier to discredit, but  fails to engage with the actual,  

nuanced reasons that many  Christians offer for their faith.