Recently I was involved in a conversation on Facebook between myself, a self-proclaimed agnostic, and a "hatetheist." Several statements and questions were posed to me during that conversation - here is statement #7: “I'm not saying I'm an atheist or agnostic just critical of a God that in his name millions of people have died over who was right and who was wrong.”
To say it is God's fault that millions of people have died in His name at the hands of people who were using His name to justify their sin, is the same as having someone steal your credit card, use it to run up charges in my store in your name and then not pay those charges and I become critical of you because it was in your name that they were charging. It's the same thing because you are holding God responsible for the actions of others rather than holding them accountable for their actions.
To say it is God's fault that millions of people have died in His name at the hands of people who were using His name to justify their sin, is the same as having someone steal your credit card, use it to run up charges in my store in your name and then not pay those charges and I become critical of you because it was in your name that they were charging. It's the same thing because you are holding God responsible for the actions of others rather than holding them accountable for their actions.
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