One of my main problems with Islam and Christianity is the fact that God and Allah are basically gangsters writ large. Just as a thief or gangster will put a gun to your face and say, “Give me your cash or die,” God says, “Love me or suffer the consequences (eternal damnation).” I find the two morally equivalent and equally reprehensible.
If I say no to the gangster and he harms me, he is morally culpable for a heinous act. Similarly, if reject the God hypothesis and spend eternity in hellfire, isn’t God also worthy of equal scorn? Or maybe even more so because he is inflicting an infinite punishment for a finite sin?
If I say no to the gangster and he harms me, he is morally culpable for a heinous act. Similarly, if reject the God hypothesis and spend eternity in hellfire, isn’t God also worthy of equal scorn? Or maybe even more so because he is inflicting an infinite punishment for a finite sin?