User talk:SouthWriter/sandbox/An atheist's objections/@comment-1593341-20100707073431

And here is an honest question, I'll try to bring up my comment from earlier in a much more civilized manner.

God is omnipotent and omniscient. He is all knowing and all powerful. He knows that when he creates Adam and Eve, they will defy him and be cast from the garden. He knows this before he creates them. Rather than instead creating a stronger willed being that can more easily see through the serpent's manipulation, he continues to create the flawed creation, then when they defy him he punishes not only them, but all of mankind. So now there is a taint put on humanity by god in punishment for something that by his actions were his doing. (if you throw something into traffic knowing that someone will hit it and crash, you don't blame the guy who hit it for not driving better, is my point here). So now fast forward to Jesus. He brings about a method to get out of the punishment he bestowed on humanity for his own actions, all you have to do is accept Jesus as lord and repent and you're good. If you don't you continue being punished. This is basically a protection racket. You have to pay your protectors otherwise they won't protect you from themselves.

This is basically my biggest beef with christianity. If there is a god, why would I want to follow one like that? I'm not of the opinion that you should love your creator simply because he's your creator. If my parents beat and abused me my entire life I wouldn't love them simply because they're my parents. Love must be earned. And trust is the assumption of future behaviour based on prior behaviour, so if prior behaviour is negative, why would I trust in god to be positive?

I hope I got that out without being offensive.