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You should study philosophical logic. I would highly recommend this book.

One thing you're going to have to come to terms with though is that the argument should build itself, not you building arguments based on the conclusion you are looking for. A lot of people have conclusions they want to prove, so they try to structure the argument to give the desired conclusions. This is begging the question and your conclusion will be implicitly assumed in your premises.

Another thing about logic that I see a lot of people do is that when they see an argument, they try to find the particular fallacy the debater is using and believe that invalidates the arguments. In order to properly refute an argument, you must represent the argument exactly as the person has given it to you and you must prove that either one of the premises are false or all of the premises are true and the conclusion can still be false. Simply telling them they're using a bad argument does not prove that their conclusion is false. They could be using a faulty argument and the conclusion is still true.

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>Why do you get a claim to what real logic is?

You know. Logic logic. This.

What ludichrist is practicing is a specific epistemological theory. A theory which, among Internet atheists, often gets labelled "logic" when it is no such thing.

>Just curious, where are you studying?

Oh, it's just for fun. I'm a nerd. I'm learning out of this book.

I would recommend Harry Gensler's book Introduction to Logic. He's a Jesuit Priest, and the book tackles many issues of religion and philosophy and even has a chapter on belief logic.