So true.

John, thank you for sharing this. It is interesting that many simply accept this “God” as the benchmark rather than explore for themselves whether or not there might be another way to see God. Those who reject God are rejecting this benchmark, which is truly born out of spiritual ignorance. I have often thought that an atheist is simply a person who has rejected the benchmark and has not bothered to explore the alternatives. I too reject that benchmark. The ease with which I reject it indicates that I never bought it in the first place. Those who have accepted it seem to add to their rejection a kind of oath to themselves that they’ll never be taken again. They’re determined to never answer a knock at their front door because they once bought an inferior vacuum cleaner from a traveling salesman.

1. Religion’s “God” tells us to love our enemies, while he tortures his for eternity.
2.Religion’s “God” tells us not to be overcome of evil, but to overcome evil with good, while he himself does not overcome evil with good.
3.Religion’s “God” tells us to forgive others 70 x 7, while he leaves most of his creation unforgiven.
4.Religion’s “God” tells us that love never fails, while his fails to win back the majority of his creation.
5.Religion’s “God” tells us that Christ is the propitiation “for the sins of the whole world,” while holding the world’s sins against them.
6.Religion’s “God” tells us that he is the “Savior of all men” and then does not actually save all men.
7.Religion’s “God” tells us that the wages of sin is death, while changing it to be eternal conscious torment.
8.Religion’s “God” tells us that the payment for sin is eternal conscious torment, and that Christ made the payment for sin, but it was not eternal conscious torment.
9.Religion’s “God” tells us that he will be “All in all,” while he will actually only be “All in some.”
10.Religion’s “God” will somehow “reconcile all things unto Himself,” while leaving most of his creation un-reconciled.