Seems to me quite a few people don't have many nice things to say about God or religion?
Because every God has made it clear that his bad side is worse than any of us can imagine, and our bad sides is/can be justified through His(x) scripture.
Have you ever considered this, what if your wrong? I am not saying you are cause I cannot give you absolute proof anyone is right or wrong. Just suppose for a moment there really is a heaven and a hell?
What might those first moments be like after we die?
We are either going to have our first glimpse of heaven and euphoria or your first genuine experience of unrelenting horror and regret.
Either way the future is irrevocably fixed and eternally unchangeable.
Queue, cliche...What if you're wrong about the "Juju at the bottom of the sea".
I can imagine a hell, I just can't imagine who would be operating it, the devil or God. They seem to be one in the same. In the OT there was mass genocide and slaughter. All was justified by God. A few centuries later, Hitler is condemned as being the devil when he only resembled old testament texts.
Deuteronomy 12:3 I don't even need to be speaking specifically about a monotheism to say each of the Gods is jealous, vengeful, spiteful, ruthless, capricious, and
seductively evil
So then allow me to ask you the same question only posed as an atheist. Imagine you died, and there was nothing..You barely had enough time to realize your time was wasted spent on the knees waiting for resolve of the dice. Snake eyes. Which is worse?
I have seen many homes where kids were brainwashed to do nothing and be nothing. As well as I have seen homes where religion was taken to the extreme. Funny how that is.
It is not the followers that are evil or extreme (even if they are) it's the texts of procedure. Just the same, they are not happy and loving because of the texts and procedures. If you took out religion(x) from a very happy religious family and replaced it with religion (y) they'd probably still be a happy family, regardless.