I consider myself to be a good, moral person. I help people when I can. I don't hurt people or animals. Unless I have no choice, I'll never kill again. I don't cheat, steal, or lie. I love my wife and kids and try to be a good husband and father. But, accorfing to christianity, I am destined to burn in eternal torment. The kind of god that would do that is vengeful and cruel.
Like i've stated, I respect those who brlieve. Please respect my unbelief.
The Moral Law does not give us any grounds for thinking that God is ‘good’ in the sense of being indulgent, or soft, or sympathetic. There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.”
Our terrifying situation:
If this power is perfectly good, it can ONLY hate the less than perfect things we do.
If it accepts any of our failures, it is not good.
We can’t help but be imperfect.
If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are hopeless. But if it is, then we are making ourselves enemies to that goodness every day, and are not in the least likely to do any better tomorrow, and so our case is hopeless again.
We cannot do without it, and we cannot do with it. God is the only comfort. He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies.
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger – according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way.
It is only after you have realized that there is a Moral Law, that there is a power behind the Moral Law, that you have broken the Moral Law and put yourself at odds with this Power – only at this point does Christianity start to have meaning
