So, "shut up! You should be happy I don't beat you more!"

It is wrong to lie because God cannot lie (Titus 1:2)

Wow, this is staggeringly stupid. You obviously made no attempt to comprehend what I was talking about and instead took it as an invitation to preach. If you want to actually discuss the matter in some intelligible sense, fine. More of this garage will simply be ignored.

Apparently god does NOT always answer. Um. Because he didn't. Of COURSE it's "my fault" for not properly waiting for an answer. Isn't it "god's" fault for not properly answering? Oh, right. God is perfect and doesn't make mistakes.

I'm going to start using that one.

you know what else has been on earth for thousands of years? Everything else that is alive right now. Where is the cockroach jesus? You are applying post facto causality. I believe it was Douglas Adams who proposed the analogy of the puddle. Rain falls and fills a small hole. From the water's point of view, this hole…

In fact we could've all been wiped out for our rebelliousness, starting with Eve and Adam in the garden, but he had a plan of salvation for us.

I was raised Southern Baptist, had the bible pushed on me until I was old enough to think for myself and push back. The only enlightenment I ever got from the bible was enlightenment of how gullible people can be when they seek comfort.

"To be enlightened one must honestly seek God first to ask that he reveals to them what he wants them to learn of during that time. Doubt me? Just try it, is my ONLY request."

Read this today and it sums up my ever growing distaste for all things religious.

This is just blathering. Our living status is irrelevant with regards to the moral state of this particular deity; we could simply be alive to provide more subjects on which to inflict suffering, a decidedly evil example. We provide for ourselves or die; there are no alternate possibilities. The claim that we are…

And ofcourse it's even more arrogant to claim that you know what God is, what God does or doesn't do and most of all, what God wants or which group of people on this planet actually represents God's will, if any. Yet you seem to have no problem with that part in the slightest.

If your god is a higher and perfect being then he knows these things don't make sense (to us), he knows what it looks like (to us) when he does these things (again, to us), and what's more: he knows exactly what it would take to make these things make sense, but doesn't.

"God does not make mistakes"

No, this isn't a legitimate point, despite me humoring it elsewhere on the thread. This is simply an Appeal to Ignorance, and is a fairly stupid one at that. It asserts the initial premise without any support, a premise that is self-refuting as I am currently point out in the aforementioned elsewhere.

Seriously, I'v heard people making this argument for decades now, and it still pisses me off. Every kid that dies of cancer, every hurricane that kills thousands, every plague and the same shrug of the shoulders and "His ways and works are mysterious, we are not meant to understand." It was the primary reason…

How do you know any of this? Because it says so in the Bible? How do you know what it says in the Bible is true. Because it says so in the Bible?

You make several conclusions that have no basis in a rational discussion. But I applaud your eagerness to start a fight in a comment section of a piece written on religion.

ahem

Since, by your argument, people are incapable of making moral judgements about the Abrahamic god, how then did you determine that that god is not evil?