(to me) love is about let my kid free (free will) to make his own decision (the only thing I can do is teaching him whatever I can to help - so of course then it depends on what I've teached him and how he understood it) the difference here is that as parents we are not God, and as human we may fail a lot before to get the point and being able to teach the right things from our own understanding and what we lean to - but a kid is not always supposed to be influence by his parents he can think for him/herself too (that's the good part of free will) in regard to what he lean to him/herself.
What good is free will when you are killed for using it?
Are there evil people? yes.
Are you evil? Am I? Do you murder people?
Do you / I steal from them? Do you / I intentionally hurt them for sport? I will venture to say, no we don't.
Love is about letting people make mistakes, not punishing them for it.
What good is free will when you were created to fail?
I do not see how god can have any love at all, when I, as an imperfect human being, have more love in my pinky finger for the plight of human kind than god does in his entire being.
Having your self/son murdered is loving, HOW?
What did it do? Nothing. Nothing has changed for 2000 years.
The world has gotten better due to human scientific progress, but the religions that Christ inadvertantly sparked kept us in the ignorant DARK AGES till now.
I am not saying religious people are evil. The leaders are. They are making money off of you. They have control over your emotions and your thought process.
Religions are the root of all suffering. If there was no religion, only people who loved their neighbour as themselves, there would be less judgemental ones who would be able to control how people live their lives, because we as free thinking people, would not let them!.
God is an integral part of religion.
God isn't love. He's an illlusion we delude ourselves with because we were raised to believe he exists.
I would rather be a good person just for the sake of being a good person, not for the benefit of being ''saved'' because I recognised a deity.
If God was love, it would of created us perfectly without the ability to ''make mistakes'', without the ability to do harm, without the ability to hurt our fellow man. Because he created that ability he is not love at all.
And if God is not love, then God does not exist, and if he does exist, I would not want to worship that selfish sonuvab*tch in the first place.
