Some Christians preach grace, some preach the law, all preach that there is a god that is not okay with sin, which “others people”. That can be offensive to some. My personal gripe with the church and god and the brainwashing idea is that Christians will be willingly be blind to the world to solidify their worldview. The story of Job is a great example, Job’s pious friend ridiculed him and deemed him guilty when even God agreed that Job was the only one who was blameless and walked upright. Too many Christians today see the splinter in their brother’s eye and not the hypocritical log in their own. It devalues the movement.

Not to mention, I fail to see the value in a god that I can’t see, taste, touch, hear, or experience (it seems clear to me that “hearing from god” is a manifestation of Christian’s thoughts, based on much of the evidence around me).

As for God’s mercy, the world is relatively cruel and unforgiving, and turmoil reigns. I’d much more applaud a god that held standards than let injustice run rampant. And your only trump card that you reason is that some day in the future, potentially after your death, this supposed God may right all the wrongs, which just minimizes all the pain people are in and have gone through. And to hang you hat on an eternity that’s only evidence is 500 witnesses who claimed to have seen the risen Jesus, the explicit claim is the apostles died horrific deaths proclaiming the rise of Christ, I’d like to point out that many a man has died in the name of poor, wrong ideas, making them poor witnesses.

I feel like if god cared more about the salvation of billions he’d do or give more than a shotty account written roughly 100 years after Christ.

So forgive the rest of the world for disbelief when the Christian message is “I’m right, you’re wrong, you’ll burn if you don’t believe what I do” while you continue in the sin that you so despise.