It says it all when Religious books state God made man in his own image-if that's not narcisstic, I don't know what is!-this may explain why a lot of people are two faced,hypocrits etc-cause they're the image of God!

My position is I do not know one way or another that there is a god..... as a matter of fact I really do not care..but have to agree with you and @LeighShelton if there is one he is assholiness...

Who does this god sound like? Someone who craves authority, demands respect and appreciation. Yet he doesn't produce. Still wants to be worshipped by others? Why its tRUMP !

Sooo scripture tells us we are all god's creation and he loves each and every one of us. so how would he find his creation not worthy of him? And if he made you why didn't he endow you with faith in him? And if god is real he is a misogynist, and a truly mean SOB. Visit a children's cancer ward and tell me god loves them.... Anyone who allows small children to suffer is not someone I want in my life. Starving children, children who live in war torn regions, children with diseases why would anyone allow that? If god is all powerful how does evil exist?

This idea that god will ignore your pleas for help if you don't believe pisses me off. Imagine you're near the ocean; you hear cries for help and rush in the direction of the cries. Someone is yelling "I'm drowning and there's no one around to hear my cries and save me!" He doesn't know that you're nearby and that you can see him. Do you stop in your tracks and say, "well, I was going to save him, but he doesn't believe I'm here." What kind of stupid bullshit is that?!

I heard someone say once "you'll see it when you believe it," and the other person thought that was just super clever! She thought it was a deep and profound play on words. But it kind of pissed me off. This is the exact opposite of critical thinking, I thought! It's this idea that if you believe first, THEN you'll start seeing the evidence. That's why you're not "feeling" god's presence...you have to believe first, then any time the wind hits you funny, that's god.

If our not believing in a God/god(s) can affect an entity that is supposedly all loving, omnipresent, omniscient, and eternal negatively, then, YES, I don't want to praise, pray to, or worship such a neurotic being.

he is some kind of asshole not that there is one

If we are to look at it form a global perspective, we have to ask which GOD? Individuals with in many cultures created GOD’s which were based on cultural, historical and social conditions of the times which they lived in, the focus is not the characteristics of GOD, but the minds of storytellers who created a GOD, to scare the majority. Their ability of unexpected action (fear); being the core of the identity of most God’s.

people assume god must be good or righteous, but there is no reason why god is in fact evil

If God is real, he still would not be worth worshipping. Anybody that can do such a petty thing such as create a Devil and demons then set them free on the earth to trick his creations to lead them to Hell is far worthy of praise!!! About the elderly women saying what she said: Christians always have to find a way to defend their God and make it out to be always the person’s fault. Christians are like an abused man or woman, who always defends their abuser. Just look at how God treated his most faithful in the Bible.

Often thought this. IF God is real, and it is only a conditional, I still wouldn't worship such a heartless miserable incompetent deity. Again even if does exist, he doesn't intervene (except in G.W Bush's life) because he believes in the religionists' old favorite - Free Will. Not much point praying to a God to do something if he gave us free will - an interventionist God isn't consistent with the principle of free will, but don't tell religionists that. One atheist humorist (I forget who) once said that maybe our God is learner God, not very good at his job, and a bit of a dunce. Works for me.

@pnm98 you are banging up against your family members who have taken Pascal's wager. You, on the other hand, and most of us on this site, prefer to read the Daily Racing Form before taking the bet; a wise precaution. But you can challenge your family to a simple test.

You and all of your "elder" family members must faithfully promise that every time you see a panhandler, you give him or her two bucks. And if the person isn't raving, you take some time to hear their story. All entries must be logged with full descriptions.

So, over the course of a year or so, you may have been paid a visit by something divine. Or your family members may get tired of passing out money to skells who are just going to buy booze with it. Or you may have earned enough karma points to move up a notch when you reincarnate. Or some combination of the above. But I guarantee you that if you collect everyone's logs and edit them, you'll have a publishable book. If you blog the logs weekly, you'll have a million people buy the book. And you will have the satisfaction that you have relied on reason and hypothesis testing w/r/t your original position.

I can't take your poll... I don't believe in god..period. I don't like religion. I believe that a list of moral instructions from a list of scholars would be better than instructions from a higher power ...
(a God). Sorry... George Carlin put it clear to me.

If an individual had the personality traits of a God that most people worship you would despise it .

Hmm, sounds an awful lot like Trump

If there is a benevolent God, who still observes us and who still has influence, then I believe that being would be contented with us trying to do good things and avoiding doing bad ones. I don't think such a being would need our worship or even our belief. They would just reward good deeds and punish bad ones. Something which there seems to be a total absence of, in the way that the world currently works.

In such a system, a lot of non-believers who have lived ethical lives but never prayed in their lives would go to heaven, and a lot of devout Christians, who have preached hate towards others for not sharing their beliefs, would be going straight into the fiery pit.

"I prayed for a bike, but I didn't get one. So I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness." It's supposed to be a joke, but some people actually seem to believe that the world works like that.

Even when l was a kid l thought he was a dick. Flooding, Hellfiring, turning folks into salt, talk about over reaction. Maybe a few anger management sessions are in order.

The god character in the bible is a real piece of shit. Jealous, murderous, perverted bitch.

who says 'God' is male? Doesn't it make more sense if we are the physical embodiment of God that God is both male and female?

I was watching a film today called "Clash of the Titans" and the Greek king and queen were rebelling against the gods and claiming they were the new gods,thye were refusing to worship the gods as a sign of protest claiming that the gods needed their worship more than mortals needed the gods.

Made me chuckle ,what a novel thought,striking against the gods by witholding your prayer ,whatever would they do?

See now I think you are looking at this conundrum the wrong way round. God/creator is not expecting you to worship him without question just because he is god/creator.He is has given you the tools to think and discover who you are yourself ,is all .Some find him and some don't, it doesnt matter other than if you do find him you will be a lot happier in general. It is a personal enlightment far as I believe it and that is reward enough in itself.

God doesn't Love people. God is Love. God isn't powerful, God is power. God isn't omniscient, God is omniscience. God isn't omnipotent, God is omnipotence. God is not kind, God is kindness. Never "worship" anything but your own better nature, that is how you "worship" God. God is not an individual entity with human characteristics. People give human characteristics to God, but the power that created everything has no human characteristics only humans do and these characteristics have evolved over time and will continue to. But the God Principle never does.

It would depend on the god you worship. Personally I would pick Ma'at, the goddess of justice and order. Plus a lot of other things.

It should be noted that you are speaking primarily of the Christian conception of god. And yes, there are logical proofs that say this very thing in much fewer words.
(e.g.1. If an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent god exists, then evil does not.
2. There is evil in the world.
3. Therefore, an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent god does not exist.)

If the douchebag God of Abraham is real... ugh. That's actually tough. I disagree with a lot (probably the majority) of what was said and done in the past, but would it not be the ultimate hubris to tell the creator of everything to kindly fuck off?