Religion

[Ghieri]

@Dogfood:
1. All human advancements have been our doing. We've improved ourselves. If you argue for creationism, then you're pretty much accepting that we were created into a cold, ruthless world. God could have created a utopia, and then set about a constitution and democracy and all that good stuff from the very beginning, but he didn't. We were set up to suffer = malevolence.

2. Suffering to get a reward? That logically doesn't exist? With a rulebook that contradicts itself? Sounds like a gameshow where everyone is screwed. Also the reward itself is a bit awkward. Living forever under the Authoritarian rule of a guy that designed us to suffer, and basically spending all of your time praising him? That sounds like hell to me.

3. People call god merciful for not making their lives worse or destroying them outright. That's not mercy, that's narcissism. We only exist to praise and worship god, because he compulsively needs praise. Sure he'll throw us a bone every now and then but he'll also destroy our entire family(job) tell us to kill our family and then jerk us back by saying "Oh no, don't do that bro!"(Abraham) wipe out the entire population and then repopulate it with the same species that pissed him off the first time(noah) And finally when judgement comes he'll basically kill/torture anyone and everyone who's ever pissed him off. Including, but certainly not limited to: Non-christians, gay people, murderers(Unless you did it in the name of Jesus!), Adulterers(Almost everyone alive today), Biologists, rape victims, people who like shellfish, people who've worn cotton and polyester on the same day, Women who spoke in church or took on jobs for themselves, etc. Everyone else will instantly lose their freewill and independence and become tape recorders that play "Praise god" on loop for the rest of existence.

And Satan's supposed to be the bad guy, even though the only thing he really did was introduce us to knowledge, which was apparently our biggest sin.