Stop blaming God, we develop a character through our life . If we don't have fear of God , we feed our selfish desire and that will be our character or habit .
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Fear leads to panic & other negativity. Fear leads to believing in something without reasonable evidence. Acting out of fear usually makes things worse.
I am not afraid of anything. I did not decide to be that way & I did not make myself that way. IF there is a god which created me, THAT IS the way it created me to be. I specially cannot be afraid of something I do not know exists. IF somehow I find there is a god that wants me to be afraid of it, it obviously would not be loving or trustworthy.
The vast majority of criminals believe in god. Wife beaters, child abusers, rapists, robbers & murderers believe in god. Belief in & fear of god definitely does not necessarily result in good character.
When left to their own will, good men will do good, evil men will do evil, but it takes religion for good men to do evil.
IF there is a god, it does not want me to know or it does not care whether I know or it is not omnipotent. IF there were an omnipotent god that wants people to believe, it would SHOW ITSELF & leave no possible way to doubt instead of playing stupid mind games.
This is difficult to say without seeming to some like bragging but it needs to be said. I could put my character up against probably over 90% of people, in the USA at least, who claim to believe in god & come out ahead. I am a very good person. I treat others fairly & deal with them with patience, tolerance & understanding. Hardly a day goes by that I do not go out of my way to help someone & often helping several or many. I do things for people that most charge money for.
I catch stray animals & care for them, which I cannot well afford, until I can get them adopted. I have known people who believe in god to throw newborn kittens into a trash dumpster.
There are many I do not like but I love everyone.
It seems society needs some punishment in order to deter crime but I would never want or approve of punishing anyone just for the sake of punishment or vengeance or because they do not believe something. IF there is an afterlife & some short term karmic payup, I would not like that but it would make much better sense than eternal punishment. Eternal punishment for any or all of what a person does in their short time here is horribly sadisticly insane & utterly frigging stupid. Even worse, if possible, would be if it is not for what they do but for what they cannot believe.
You may as well say if you are not a Republican, you cannot have good character. You seem to want to think you are judging people's character but you are arrogantly assuming people cannot be of good character unless they believe what you believe. Anyone who claims to believe in & follow ancient babblings of ignorant superstitious primitives needs some improvement but I do not assume any 1 or few or all of them cannot be of good character.
There is an omnipotent god that created everything but it should not be blamed. Absolute nonsense. An omnipotent god that created life, the universe & everything would be responsible for everything. The christian bible, the koran, other religious writings & beliefs blaming puny humans rather than the omnipotent god is illogical & just plain stupid. May as well put babies in an elaborate maze & blame them for being unable to find their way out. And blame them for being born & being put into the maze. 1 thing, of many, that the religious need to get thru their thick skulls is that an omnipotent god cannot blame humans for being human.
Humans did not make themselves & did not ask to be here. IF humans were created by an omnipotent god, that god cannot justify blaming them for being what it created them to be.
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