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I Don't Believe In God

James 2:17-18 "In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, 'You have faith; I have deeds.' Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds."
If deeds are a true measure of who we are, then how do God's deeds of passively standing by as so many people die and go to hell—ETERNAL suffering—say about him?
Being all powerful, a minuscule amount of his effort would save so many from so much pain. Logically, he must care even less about our misery than the amount of work on his part it would take to truly save us all out of love. He does not love everyone, for no one would passively watch their child step into a lava pit.

Why does God tell us that hating our enemies is a sin as bad as murder, yet hell, the greatest representation of hate (It's FAR worse than murder), is a place He created for His arch enemy?
Why does God place higher demands on us than he does on himself? Clearly, he is NOT a righteous father leading by example.
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KatieTreat
So do you or do you not believe in a god?
ReasonablyInsane · 26-30, M
The gods of the major religions have self contradictory properties, so no, I don't believe any of them exist. I do believe there are likely entities which we might consider to be gods out in the interuniversal space, but nothing like what our limited imaginations have created.
wolfy1992
so you accept yourself as an atheist? I'd drink to that brother. Welcome to the world of the red pill. You broke free of the continuous cycle of childhood indoctrination to come to accept that the stories that were told to you where merely stories and nothing more, full of contradictions, double standards, sexism, hypocrisy and barbarism that only self deception, delusional persons acting entirely on faith could ever accept as the source of divine intervention.

You know what I could never understand about religion and religious people? How they can KNOW that the thing they are worshipping, the thing they call "god" is not actually "satan" pretending to be god because apparently the devil is a master of deception and illusion. But you'll notice how religious people always "know" that they god they believe in is not the devil...because faith...as if that's not something a devious god-like creature would be able to use to their advantage.

God encourages and/or causes the mass killings of humans all throughout the bible, the killing of infants, the mutilation of newborn genitals and the slavery of human-kind, to me that sounds like the devil more than a god. but hey, to me, they're both one and the same. Both equally fictitious.

I would sooner pray to Odin than any god of Abraham.
ReasonablyInsane · 26-30, M
Whew! That's right! Shout that from the rooftops! We're fed a healthy dose of life truths and they stick in just enough bullshit so we don't question which is which and by the time we're capable of reasoning, their religion is rooted so deep within our minds it's just as true as touching the stove top.
Yea really, the end times are supposedly going to be full of false miracles performed by satan... Like seriously, satan is going to be kicking God's ass in Earthly participation! I'll worship him over God any day if he does that, haha.
I agree, God is totally a disgusting freak. Funny how the believers of the Bible's morality always keep up to date with the required laws of their societies, and somehow forget what the previous generations believed.
Dude, Odin is a goddamn baddass, haha. So many other awesome gods out there, why would anyone believe in the Christian God that likes to send a majority of the population to burn in hell?
wolfy1992
because they already believe that to be true and they can't be wrong....after all, they're personal friends with the creator of the universe, don't need an ego boost for that one.

science teaches modesty, religion teaches you that you're super special and the center of the universe.
wolfy1992
I mean, abrahamic religions cut the penises of little boys because god said so randomly one day, and got super pissed. That's the logic of the creator. Have males born with a foreskin, then randomly get upset one day and demand its painful removal.
ReasonablyInsane · 26-30, M
With a great demand of faith, comes an even greater promise of reward or punishment.
KatieTreat
If I believed any of it, I would surmise that the Bible must be one of Satan's most effective tools.
wolfy1992
such a shame that an all-knowing creator would have his creations abandon their wit, their logic and reasoning that he gave them in order to deceive them by telling them that they shouldn't use these tools to figure out if God is real, they should just take someone's word for it, and basically roll the dice as to where you were born and raised as to which god you would praise...okay makes sense.
wolfy1992
It would make sense, only someone as horrible as the devil would cut off a babies foreskin.
ReasonablyInsane · 26-30, M
Yup, no super intelligent entity would be afraid of curiosity because they would know the persistence truth has at always being reached when you dig deeply enough.
ReasonablyInsane · 26-30, M
Definitely... but then God would still be an assclown for not doing shit and sitting around passively letting us all believe chaotic nonsense and stabbing each other in the back.