Quote Originally Posted by holybandit
See: 7 plagues of Egypt, noah's flood, the massacre of the various tribes that had conflicts with the ancient hebrews.

If the christrian/jewish god was to be compared with a parent, its the kind of parent that kills the boy that dates his daughter.
And that's after bringing them together in the first place......


Quote Originally Posted by Gaius Scribonius Curio
Know its not really to do with the discussion, particularly since I'm an atheist myself, but maybe its because in essence all religions are about giving meaning to lives that don't have it. Ergo, if a devout Christian has meaning in their life, then similarly a devout muslim, or a devout Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, or any other religion (sorry I don't know them all) will too.
Well that's more of the atheist view of why we are drawn of making up gods and an afterlife. From a more religious viewpoint all others are heretics or pagans, not following the true path ( though there are some exceptions to that rule).