There's nothing about God in the Old Testament I wouldn't defend. And as for a 'warm and fuzzy' New Testament God, I think it's the atheists here who seem not to have read it.
Drowning women and children? You'd defend that?
Maybe this is why people like you really do need religion. God (used in the colloquially sense) only knows what you'd do otherwise.
The vast majority of us go about our lives being decent, or at least not doing the wrong thing without much thought.
OK OK
Enough about you. We all want to brag about how good we are.
Ugh. It's not bragging to say that most of us, including myself, live out our daily lives not being evil. It's a basic expectation, not an accomplishment----unless you're talking about your god. Then an arbitrary rain of death and damnation is par for the course.
You're contradicting your own atheology. You don't need to postpone your decision whether or not to worship God. Look around you and see how many atheists have already decided.
Is "atheology" a word? Anyway, the rest of your sentence makes zero sense, and has nothing to do with anything.
The two rules of atheism.
Rule 1 - there's no God
Rule 2 - if there's a God I hate him
For spending so much time here, it's surprising how little you know about atheism or atheists in general.
It's not like this particular god has any wisdom not found elsewhere. Go look at the Koran;
So many religions all reporting an afterlife, the soul, Higher Beings, divine enforcement of transcendent moral law.
Hmmm.
1. So which one is right? According to yours, if you don't guess right, it's forever in torment.
2. So what if they all say there's an afterlife (and all of them do not say that)? If numbers mattered, then it would truly mean that humans create gods and not the other way around. For example, if everyone suddenly decided there was no afterlife, then the afterlife that existed just prior to that would vanish in a puff of consensus. Similarly, ancient Egyption religion and its gods must have existed for thousands of years, but then died out when people stopped believing in it. So it must follow that if a majority of people didn't believe in Jehovah/Jesus/Whatever, that he/they would disappear. But then once one more person believed in them again than did not, they'd pop back into existence.
So have fun with that idea.
Sounds like you think all gods are the same. All psychopaths?
I never said that. What you should have been able to gather is that there are many gods with many of the identical attributes as Jehovah. The same ancient wisdom that exists in the Bible exists in other religious texts. This is about uniqueness, and Jehovah is decidedly not unique.
You seem not to understand that bible-believers like God's laws - we aren't 'yoked' by them. We benefit from them.
In your case, I think it's the rest of us that benefit from your belief because it seems you wouldn't know right from wrong without your religious beliefs.
Billions of humans don't share your subjective assessment of God. How can that be? <--- rhetorical question
See the numbers argument above.
I guess ou're entitled to your opinion of what's "horrifying"
Damn right I am. Praising anything for all of eternity and calling it paradise is truly horrifying to me, as it should be to anyone who values a free mind/doesn't want to be a mindless programmed worship machine with less processing power than a cockroach.
So many anti-theists (lets be honest - they are anti-Christian) describe the religion they hate in such a way that leads me to agree that, yeah, I would also leave THAT religion.
What the fuck do you not get about not believing in the supernatural? Most of us here were raised as Christians. If not that, we were raised in a predominantly Christian nation/society. So it only makes sense that it's the religion we rail against more than any other. It is Christian supremacists who seek to change our laws in order to rule from the Bible rather than secular laws as our Constitution demands. It is they who want to push the Bible in schools. They want to take rights from us based on their religious beliefs. They want to have rights superior to ours. So we have damn good reasons to protest this oppressive, unproven, bronze-age religion.
