A small thanks to the resident Theists..

[Esquilax]

Any god that would put me in a place absent of love (especially the love I have acquired for others) just because I refuse to take their existence on faith when the opposite is being re-enforced in the environment that that god put me in: Is inherently too unsound of a Creator being for me to subscribe belief in.

This is what I find the most baffling about christianity, both as a proposition about reality and as a supposed moral system, because there's nothing evil about a genuine failure to locate a specific piece of knowledge, and that's really all atheism is, should christianity pan out to be correct. You won't find a single atheist here who would say that no, they wouldn't believe god exists even if they had evidence for him. And yet that failure to find a single piece of information is sufficient justification for an everlasting punishment, in god's eyes?

At times it almost seems like this is a religion that takes place in a cartoon world, where anyone who doesn't believe in god is some mustache twirling supervillain, but a cursory glance around the world shows that this simply isn't true; what you have are a group of people no different from anyone else except for this one belief, being segregated and punished forever by a god who apparently thinks this is okay.

What pettiness this is! Could you even imagine a teacher or a parent punishing a child for asking a question, or having an incorrect answer without having any prior experience? Yet again, this is a topic upon which god is judged to a far more lax standard than a normal human would be.