Fucking Mormons.

[Spectre X]

see? This is why people call you an idiot.

It's written in texts. You know? Paper sheets with words on them? Words that could just as easily be written by normal humans pulling shit from their asses? Exactly. Religion was made because people needed at least some rudimentary explanation as to how the world worked, and also, lateron the rulers needed to keep the populace in line, thusly using religion as a tool of controll, by making them believe that they would go to hell etc. if they didn't live their lives like THEY told them to.

Jesus wasn't a bad guy, he just didn't know any better.

Now, Buddhism, there's a religion. In Buddhism, you can do basically anything as you pursue enlightenment. In Buddhism, there is no such thing as 'hell', just another life untill you find enlightenment. And if you don't, well, make the best of it I say.

If God is all-loving and knowing and omnipresent and omnipotent, he KNOWS that he can't hold us not believing in him against us, because he KNOWS that there is no physical evidence of him existing in our world, apart from some shoddy texts which could have easily been written by humans and that have no true evidence of even having anything to DO with him.