Christian ideology suggests that every person's sins can be forgiven so long as they accept, believe in, and worship the Christian god in the approved manor. (Specific details of that accepting, believing, and worshiping differ from sect to sect, but perhaps that is a different reason for not bothering with the god.) So it doesn't really matter what other sins, atrocities, evils, murders, rapes, child molesting, thievery, etc., etc., one might have committed, the only real thing that can land you in hell to be tortured for all eternity by a loving god is that you don't love and worship the god in the approved manor. He isn't really offended if I rape you child, sell your wife into slavery, and burn you at the stake after stealing everything you own, so long as I love Him and kneel at His feet.
Any being that demands love and worship and backs that demand with a threat of torture and brutality, isn't a being worthy of being worshiped. Any being that accepts the worship of a killing, raping, child molester and gives him a free pass to heaven in exchange isn't much to boast of either. (The current Islamic god is a real loser when it comes to this one.) For me such isn't a being that can be worshiped even if it does exist and even if it intends to torture me forever. The fact that It also tolerates / ignores / or facilitates endless evil acts every day doesn't make it any more attractive.
All of the various sects of the Abrahamic religions suffer this same moral morass, for the god itself is inherently evil. It seems all of the other gods invented by human kind are similar though its hard to say that for sure, since literally thousands of them have been imagined over the generations. It seems to me that any reasonably discriminating person with a basic human morality should find any of the gods as they are described, as too flawed to bother with.
Any being that demands love and worship and backs that demand with a threat of torture and brutality, isn't a being worthy of being worshiped. Any being that accepts the worship of a killing, raping, child molester and gives him a free pass to heaven in exchange isn't much to boast of either. (The current Islamic god is a real loser when it comes to this one.) For me such isn't a being that can be worshiped even if it does exist and even if it intends to torture me forever. The fact that It also tolerates / ignores / or facilitates endless evil acts every day doesn't make it any more attractive.
All of the various sects of the Abrahamic religions suffer this same moral morass, for the god itself is inherently evil. It seems all of the other gods invented by human kind are similar though its hard to say that for sure, since literally thousands of them have been imagined over the generations. It seems to me that any reasonably discriminating person with a basic human morality should find any of the gods as they are described, as too flawed to bother with.
