And all this stuff about Jesus. If God is a benevolent god, then why should you have to go to Him through Jesus? Shouldn't he accept all good people? Shouldn't it be about what kind of person you are and what you do instead of what you believe? Or is it only in the court of Man that you are judged by your actions?
There are far more troublesome things in soteriology than that.
Like, you know, why the whole thing with incarnated aspect of God was required to die by slowly suffocating in a horrifyingly agonizing manner and how that act of brutality is supposed to abolish us of our sins simply if we believe so.
Even if I believed in the divine as a concept I wouldn't buy that. At all. Of course that bit is among the more lucid parts of the things credited to the same being. My personal top 10 WTF moments in Judao-Christian scripture include, in not any particular order:
0. Creating the Universe (This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move)
1. Creating a species of sociopaths without ability to separate Good from Evil.
2. Banishing said species into life of suffering and perpetual sin because of half illegitimately, half by accident gaining said knowledge due to actions of a snake, while "condemning" the snake to the fate of forever crawling on the ground on its belly (one must ask, what kind of snake was this if it did not already crawl on the ground on its belly).
3. Banishing a good portion of rebellious staff members along with their leader (previously God's second-in-command, Lucifer) in a War in Heaven.
4. -Flooding the entire world because
A) humanity was being uppity about behaving like God wanted and
B) the rebels cast out of heaven (Grigori, or Watchers, or Fallen Angels) had mingled with humans and produced hybrid offspring (Nephilim)
...and saving supposedly one human family (inbreeding and incest never seemed to be much of an issue in God's eyes) along with a single pair of all the other non-aquatic animals on Earth, and afterwards forming a covenant with remaining humanity to never do it again (and introducing a new physics feature, light refraction, to make rainbows happen)
5. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (the method was actually quite awesome, but the reasons for it were not)
6. Trolling Abraham to almost slaughter his heir as a ritual sacrifice (which raises the question, how often did people sacrifice humans to God at this point anyway...)
7. Sending his Chosen People to Egypt (to save them from a famine that, arguably, God could have prevented, with full knowledge that they would be "enslaved" in there few centuries afterwards
8. Getting his Chosen People out of Egypt only to send them to a "Promised Land" already inhabited by other people (who, of course, were to be driven away or destroyed because they were
not God's chosen people. The question arises, wouldn't there have been room for everyone, and what was so special about the "Promised Land". Also during this operation Exodus, he decided it would be a good idea to give his Chosen People a huge set of more or less arbitrary and nonsensical rules for his Chosen People to obey, without explanations or room for questioning them
9. After a few thousand years of sinful humans having to determine the fate of their souls presumably by their actions in life, God probably got fed up that people still weren't meeting his standards and decided to divide himself up into three parts, one of which he sent to be incarnated as a human, with a plan to suffer an excruciating death (which I consider to be a huge dick move since the primary personality of God wasn't really involved in the suffering, only the Son part did that allegedly) as part of God's plan to salvage the souls of the damned. Or something.
10. Finally, the alleged plan for the end of the world as relayed through vivid hallucinations probably triggered by some psychoactive substances: Apparently, God has imprisoned a mighty monster in another plane of existence (some sources claim this to be the cast-out Lucifer in a form of Dragon, some call it Leviathan, some call it Satan or the Devil, and it should be noted that equating Lucifer as the Devil is not necessarily the only interpretation though it tends to be the most common these days), from which it will eventually escape and conquer the world for some time, before Jesus returns to Earth to liberate it from the monster's iron grip, only for the world to end with all deceased persons suddenly coming to life again, which would pretty much be a zombie apocalypse...
* Herra Tohtori puts on sunglasses
...of
biblical proportions.
YEEEAAAHHHHHHH
