Gods supposed perfection

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Often we want God to be how we want Him to be, act how we want Him to act, so as to serve our wills. We want to create a God in our image. This is the perspective of humanism interpreting scripture, namely "It should be all about ME, all for MY benefit." Well, who are you oh man that you should.....

I am so fucking tired of hearing this passive aggressive "oh, you just want god to behave like you want him to, you want to tell god what to do!" That's not, usually, the argument being made, but it's what it gets twisted into because it's easier to make the opponent out to be arrogant and prideful rather than to address the issue, which is that god as he is described in the bible does not match up with the claims made about him.

This isn't about selfishly reinventing god to suit our purposes, unsurprisingly you've got this completely backwards. It's about comparing the actions of god to his purported characteristics- infallibility, omnibenevolence, etc etc- and finding that the two don't match up. Kindly stop with this stupid strawman; it is offensive to the intelligence of everyone in the thread, and if you honestly believe that it is what is being said, then you need some serious help with your reading comprehension.

This isn't us demanding that god works in certain ways; what you're seeing is our refusal to do what you yourself are doing, namely retrofitting god's actions into the presuppositions about his nature that you already have and refuse to relinquish.

This is the conundrum I face in speaking with atheists. On the one hand, God's punishment is unfair, it's too much. On the other hand, not punishing is unfair, it's not enough.

And are you honestly saying here that you can't see the huge, huge expanses of possible punishment between "no punishment at all," and "eternal, constant, inhumane torture"? You really can't see any other alternative?

Oh, and you can't see the difference between an elected official and a dictator either?