Miracles and Anti-supernaturalism

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Ok! No is my simple answer.

Because God is: forgiving, merciful and loving. And that would be my answer back to Him. and if that damned my soul... sobeit!

The question lurking here is "Is God good or evil?" God is loving to the point of rejection, so I follow Him. If He turned out not to be loving--an evil god--I would not follow him. But that's the difference between you atheists and me. You believe that if God exists, he would be evil. I know that He is good. If we keep using the word "atrocity", we talk at each other with two definitions, one with the "atrocity" done for judgmental reasons, and another with "atrocity" done for malicious reasons. We must be careful when replacing God's moral code with our own. We have a tendency to be bias. If the whole world was in anarchy and we had each killed at least one person, we would be less likely to prosecute a murderer. God is good or evil quite apart from His deeds. And our labeling a deed "atrocious" is bias from the start. So ronedee gave the correct answer: that if God did something atrocious, or "undeservingly cruel" as the definition goes, he would stop following God. But let's put the real question on the table: is said deed really cruel/atrocious, or is it deserved?

Atheists generally don't care if god is good or evil, we care if his followers are good or evil. You can go on and on about why killing millions in painful ways are actually good in god's eyes, that isn't a reflection of god's morals, that's a reflection of yours. To an atheist, every time you justify god's actions, you're endorsing the act, and god is not in the picture for us. I do have some allowances for theists though, because I know having god in the picture warps your worldview.

Sorry if I misspoke for some atheists here.