Please dont kill me for this.
This is a list of my own observations of why the modern God is bullshit.
1. In the Bible it states in MANY areas, that if you pray to God, your prayer WILL be answered, and yet, how many prayers are ACTUALLY answered? Is there a rulebook somewhere on how to pray properly that no one has seen? Does God pick favourites? Why is it that when I pray for cancer to be gone, absolutely NOTHING happens? I dont know anyone who is a cancer patient, so it isn’t a selfish wish; I’m SURE hundreds of people have wished for the same thing, so why does cancer still exist? I’m sure that of ALL PEOPLE, GOD would have the power to do that sort of thing.
2. If “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is the golden rule of Christianity, why are there so many holy wars? What was the crusades? Islam has the same God, it says the same thing, why are there SO MANY religious wars, if NO ONE IS FOLLOWING THE RULES OF THE RELIGION? Sure, spread the word of God, whatever, but it seems kind of counter productive if “saving people” involves breaking one of the key guidelines of the religion you’re spreading. You arent setting a very good example for future converts. If murder is a sin that can get you sent to hell, then why would you risk your eternal soul saving people who dont want to be “saved” in the first place?
3. The followers of Christ are Christians. Christianity is the most prominant religion on the planet with as many sects, as the chinese language has characters. Christianity is THE religion. If you arent Christian, you’re sent to hell. Jesus Christ was jewish. Did jesus get sent to hell? I seriously doubt it. Jews arent Christian, but they follow the same God as Christians do. Muslims follow the same God as Christians do, and yet according to all the Christians, they get sent to hell. If Christians are the followers of CHRIST who was a JEWISH prophet, wouldn’t that make all Christians Jewish? I digress. Regardless, Christianity didn’t arise until after Jesus was dead. Did every single human being before the year 33 AD go to hell for not believing that Jesus was our savior? Was that THEIR fault? Jesus didn’t exist until then, and he only existed for 33 years in the middle east. Surely the Jews that were there BEFORE Jesus were saved, right? They DID follow God, and God can’t just turn his back on the Jewish faith just because he added a new factor, that would be WAY too human for a surpreme being such as Him. Therefore Jews AND Christians are saved. But What about Muslims? They believe that Jesus was a powerful holy man. THEY follow God. Don’t THEY get saved as well? If God is All Loving and All Knowing, why would He “create” a person with love, if he knew that they were not going to believe in Him? If he knew that they were not going to believe in his Son as well? Why would he condemn all of his creations to Hell just because they don’t believe he exists. Is he angry at them? Is it THEIR FAULT for not believing in Him? Maybe he could show himself, but he only did THAT a handful of times, to a handful of people who already believed in him in the first place, or knew of him anyways. What about the ancient egyptians? They had never even HEARD of God before. Were THEY all sent to hell? Surely if God were the single surpreme God, and He created the universe and everything within it, he would have come into known existance WAY before the rise of Judaism.
4. In the Bible it says that men are created in the likliness of God. Men are weak and easily killed. I understand that we have a different mentality than God, but God himself from what we have heard seems weak himself. Vengeful, Jealous, Conditional, Violent, Bloodthirsty, Untrusting, Strict. And if our bodies are similar to the body of God, why are we so easily broken and struck down? If God is all loving then why did he create people who live such harsh lives? I understand that it makes them humble, makes them stronger, but what about homosexuals? Homosexuality, it has been said, is a MORTAL SIN OF LUST. But He created them that way. He KNEW they would be that way. So why would he do that? Maybe they do become humbled by the harshness of their lives. Maybe they are devout Christians, who submit to God completely. They are still mortal sinners. They can not be saved. Why would he create so many conditions, so much black and white to be acchieved by someone who is unable to reach such strict standards? Someone HE CREATED for a purpose. Was their purpose to be sent to Hell? To be seen as entertainment to God, just as a dying bird is seen as entertainment to a cruel child? Is God nothing more than a cruel child? How then, can he be the Loving, Forgiving, God that he is portrayed as being in the Bible?
5. Watching MANY programs on the Catholic channel, on the History channel, religious scholors, and nuns, and priests, they all agree that in order to be loved by God the way all humans should be, that we must rid ourselves of our own thoughts, our own opinions, our WILLS. How can the God who created us as we are, expect us to give away the very things that make us HUMAN? Our world STRIVES for individuality. It encourages open minds, and opinions, and free thinking, yet God can not love us completely if we are who we are, if we are human. Why would he create so many UNACHIEVABLE rules, expectations, and conditions. Why would he love us if he knew how weak we are? Why would he create us as something he hates, if not to simply watch us try and suffer? I do not disagree that this God is a higher being. That there has been some evidence of His existance. But he is far too human to be the creator of the universe. He is too cruel and childish to have created us with “love”. Our God is young. He is cocky, arrogent. He is too focused on the faith of his followers, to have created the entire human race, who did not believe in his existance until THOUSANDS of years after humans sprung into being. God looks at us, as we look at the gladiator fighting for his life, fighting for our eternal soul. Are we truely “loved” by this God? Or are we merely entertainment to be had until He grows bored and another god takes his place?