If God created me and I am imperfect and I commit sin - is it my fault? Not hardly! Why would it be my fault? After all - God created me - God knew how I would turn out if he created me with flaws. God saw it in the future - so why blame me? God should take responsibility for his own work and not try to pass the blame on for flaws he created - intentionally! I think so! God should quit acting like a baby and fix his own work.

For example, if I build a shed and I don't pour enough concrete to hold the main posts in place and the wind blows and lifts my shed out of the ground - who's fault is that? Do we blame the shed or the builder? If I write a computer program with bugs in it and the program fails - is it the fault of the program or the programmer? It's the programmer! If we are God's work and God is omnipotent and he makes us this way - then we are doing what we were created to do, what it was foreseen that we would do. What God already knew we would do before we were born. So - who really fucked up here? God did!

Why should I go to Hell for God's mistakes?

The very concept of sin itself implies that we have free will and that we can choose. But we do not have free will because God already knows what we are going to do and if we did something else - like NOT sin - then God would be wrong. And I wouldn't want to be the guy who made God wrong. I'd go to Hell for that! I mean - if you don't go to Hell for making God wrong - then what the hell do you go to Hell for?

According to what the Bible says, if we commit any sin at all we will burn in Hell forever unless we are forgiven. What a crock of shit! I mean - think about it. If I told you there was this guy down the street who tortured people with fire for doing anything he doesn't like, you'd call the police and have the guy locked up. This guy would be a dangerous insane criminal. Who is this insane criminal in the Bible? God! According to the Bible our creator is absolutely insane. Think about it. If there were a perfect creator, would he be supremely cruel? I don't think so.

So - why is it in the Bible then. Well - because the Bible is just a myth and was written by men and is no more the work of God than any other novel. Back in the old days there were kings and kings had absolute authority and power and were often tyrants. Thus as you went to higher authorities within the social structure you found meaner and meaner tyrants - then God must be the ultimate tyrant because he had ultimate power. The concept of God was molded after the concept of kings. Thus prayer, worship, human sacrifice, and that sort of nonsense that was ingrained in ancient culture made it's way into the description of God.

Churches use fear of death and fear of punishment in the afterlife as a tool to extort money from the masses.

Another reason, of course, for the God as tyrant model is that fear is one of the primary tools used by churches to keep you in the cult, control your behavior, and extract large quantities of money from the public. After all - not only are we scared of death, which happens to everyone, but we are also scared of what happens after death. The idea that we cease to exist is a very hard concept to imagine. After all - when I die the entire universe will cease to exist because I'm dreaming all this. One of these days I'm going to wake up in a different reality and say - "Oh God did I ever have a weird dream! In my dream Bush was President and I was the one who first made reality into a religion. That was the subconscious clue that this is all my dream because I was the one who discovered reality."

But seriously - the whole Heaven and Hell thing - as if death isn't scary enough they create this afterlife which lasts forever and you either get eternal reward or eternal damnation depending on judgment - which is based on being loyal to your cult - recruiting new members - and giving mass quantities of money to the church. Hell is depicted as fire which is something that everyone understands. Heaven is a mystery depicted as a place in the clouds. Angels have wings so heaven must have a gaseous atmosphere and be subject to gravity. The streets are gold, which is a really poor material for constructing streets, but implies that God has a lot of money which makes sense considering how much he's collected from churches over thousands of years.

Heaven seems kind of dull unless your a Muslim who gets 70 virgins when they get to Heaven. Shows you what the Muslim men want to do for eternity. I personally would rather have 70 whores but after a few billion years the virgins would figure it all out. At least the Muslims are getting laid in the afterlife. Of course - back in ancient times the directions like up and down were absolute and Heaven was up in the clouds where angels have wings and Hell was down in the earth where there was lava like fire. And since dead people were no longer here they had to go either up or down. Back then - this all made sense.

Things were so much easier back in the good old days when the world was flat.

And then came those damn scientists with their wild ideas. In spite of the church's continuing war against real knowledge and persecution of scientists, we now know that the world is round and that the concept of up and down is totally meaningless except in the local context of gravity. We know that the clouds are water vapor and we have been to the clouds and there is no heaven within the atmosphere. I don't recall any plane crashes being caused because an angel got sucked into the blades of a jet engine while flying through the clouds. You see - the people who wrote the Bible did so from their own guess at the nature of the universe and they didn't know that the Earth was round - that it orbited the Sun - that was part of a galaxy of stars - which is one galaxy among trillions of galaxies - and that this planet was a speck of dust in the universe. So that's why the Bible gets so many things wrong - because it was written at a time when people didn't know as much about the universe as they do today.