An infinitely wise and perfect, loving being does not need me to worship him. More importantly, I do not deny Him. I deny the people that wrote of him. If God came to me personally, that would be the evidence that I need. But God never did that.
God apparently has this important message for all of mankind, yet he only shows himself to one person at a time, and we're supposed to take their word for it. That is not a faith in God... That is simply trusting, without evidence, that the extravagant claims those people made weren't lies. We are trusting that the person who heard voices or spoke to a burning bush wasn't just a liar or crazy. We're trusting them with the most important question mankind has ever faced, and taking their word as an answer for it. And their answer may have very well been based on nothing more than their imaginations.
But this is beside the point I am trying to make right now.
You claim I will be tormented by demons because I denied God's existence. But I do not deny his existence. I merely state that the evidence for God is insufficient, and therefor I doubt his existence.
Doubt and deny are not synonymous.
But even if he did exist, and gave me undeniable proof that he did, I would not worship him.
God is, as I have said several times in this thread, a monster.
If God is all powerful, as I assume you believe, he has the power to pull his children out of hell and spare them the eternal torture and torment that will be inflicted on them there.
Any god that will let his children be tortured for eternity is a god that is content to let his children be tortured for eternity.
I can not worship something that is morally inferior to myself. And yes, I am saying that I am morally superior to God. And so are you.
You may not have children, but lets assume that you do.
Is there anything in this world that they could do that would, in your mind, allow you to lock them in the basement and torture them in the most unimaginably painful ways, and not weigh on your conscience at all?
Another question:
God allows children to be raped and murdered.
Sure, you can say that he doesn't stop it because he does not want to intrude upon our free will.
And yes, the rapist does have free will, but does the freedom of the rapist take precedence over the freedom of the child?
Does the rapist wanting to rape the child mean more to God than the child not wanting to be raped?
In your belief system, God just sits back and watches, essentially saying to the rapist "When you're done, I'm going to punish you."
If I saw someone attempting to rape a child, I would try to stop them. That is the difference between me and your god.
The entire reason I started this Thread is to ask people to demonstrate that their faith is true, with evidence that is not based on personal experience. Nobody has been able to provide that, and I am still giving you the benefit of the doubt and now operating under the assumption that God is real... What I ask now is that you demonstrate that God deserves to be praised, loved, and worshiped.
Prove to me that he is a God of love, and not a God of callous aggression and injustice.
And again. I am not mad at God. I don't believe that he exists. I can't be mad at a fictional character. But I am mad at how people ignore the countless atrocities that God commits or allows others to commit, and people still call him a God of love. It's absurd.
I take the good and the bad, and I weigh them together, and the bad severely outweighs the good. God has killed more people in the Bible than Lucifer, and some of Lucifer's kills were sanctioned by God over bets and wagers.
Really?
And God orders Abraham to kill his son?
Yes, I know he stopped him at the last second, and it was merely a test of faith... But what kind of cruel god comes up with a test like that?
And if God really is all knowing, wouldn't he have known that Abraham would passed the test in advance, therefor making the test meaningless?
How is this a God worth worshiping?
