Role Models

[Spongebob]

1) They're not all cults. That's narrow-minded.

2) God must play favorites, because some people get to be happy, while others don't. But I see nothing wrong with this.

1)  No, that's my opinion of all religious modalities.  They all are center around worshiping invisible entities.  Religion; cult, same difference to me.  Major religions define it differently, but it's just a matter of degree.  If you have a few hundred or few thousand people, they call you a cult.  If you have millions, you're a religion.  Of course that's not universally true.  Many Evangelicals consider Mormons to be a cult and certainly Scientologists.  And you can't really include things like abusive treatment either because almost all Christian religions have used abusive treatment of one kind or another.

I should have also mentioned that all of those Catholics don't consider everyone who calls themselves a Christian to be one, either.

2)  Again, that's you speaking and you imagining what a god would think; there's nothing objective about it.  I could do that, too.  To me, god would not play favorites but would want all of its creations to flourish and would do everything possible to make that happen.  In fact, the Christian god claims just that, to love all his creations the same.  The reality is that not only is god the result of human imagination, each individual creates his/her own god.