The bible clearly paints a picture of the deity as a mass murderer, child killer and sadist so why do people?
follow it? (Noah and the ark=mass murder on a planetary scale,kill your son to show your faithful to me=sadism, have my kid killed to be okay with y’all=child killer). Why does anyone follow this monstorous psychotic evil?
In reading the christians answers–they boil down to the same logic an abusive husband uses–YOU MADE ME BEAT YOU!! And the "brussel sprout" argument has no merit–for in the xtians on book in genesis–it says god created man in his image–and later on infers that after eating of the tree man had the same ability as god to understand–therefore your mythical god was quite cognizant that he was killing intelligent beings patterned after himself–yet another psychotic aspect of this monster.