There is at Least One Problem with the Notion of a Catholic (Christian) God

Before I get into this, let me just say what I am trying to argue. I am not trying to say that my morality is the best morality, or even necessarily that morality exists, but I will bring up moral issues. This is because I am arguing that the average person, who does have their own moral system, should find issue with the Catholic Christian deity. If you would like for me to give something of a proof for morality outside of a religious system, I can.You say that the Bible isn't supposed to be taken literally on its more scientific and historical claims, and that it is to tell some truths about God. I'm okay with this to a point, but I think it raises perhaps another issue. Say the Creation story isn't literal. What is the point of its inclusion in the text? What does these scientific inaccuracies tell us about God that made it necessary to include? Why did God inspire a story that sounds a lot like the posturings of a scientifically ignorant culture, which these people certainly were? And if this is more of a rule book and a memoir, why would God present it like it is true? Even to this day people teach Creationism and the World Wide Flood as if it is on the same level as the Roman Empire or the American Revolution. Not to mention the allegories are pretty vague and led to something like 30,000 denominations, though if you were to ask me, there are as many denominations as there are Christians. So as the work of literature that will instruct us on getting to Heaven, it really needs to be synthesized and boiled down to its main points, instead of this sprawling mass of disjointed points we have today.I'm not sure what your defense of Judges 1:19 is. Let me be a little more clear. In Judges chapter 1, it tells of a war with the Canaanites, and the Israelites seem to be winning. The Lord is with them, and they take the hill country, but they cannot drive the people from the plains because they had chariots fitted with iron. Are you saying that this story shouldn't be taken literally? Whether or not this is Roman slavery or Arabic slavery or African slavery or White slavery, it is slavery. Owning another human being as property. What you talk about, working off a debt, is called indentured servitude, and is just as immoral, but that is only how they had to treat their Jewish slaves (did you know that slave masters could take the wives and children of a male slave hostage so that their servitude is permanent?). Exodus 21:2-6 says that they can buy from the heathens around them and pass them off to their children. Daughters can be sold as sex slaves, and don't even get freed at the end of six years like the male slaves are. Finally, in Exodus 21:20-21, slaves can be beat with a rod to the brink of death, and the slave master can't be punished if the slave survives for a day or two.Numbers 31:17-18 God commands Noah to kill all the male Midonites and take all the virgins for themselves. Hell is often described as an infinite torture playhouse the unbelievers will go to. No person deserves to be tortured infinitely if their crime is finite.I don't think that most members will believe exactly what their denomination says, and so I think it is a lot better to ask the member and not the documents. Talking about the scientific inaccuracies won't be very persuasive to a person that doesn't take the Bible literally. More Issues: 1. God/Jesus will judge who goes into Heaven. God, as I think I have shown, isn't the best moral character as he is presented in the Bible. He's a vengeful, controlling being that thinks of humanity as mere dirt under his feet, and acts as if his evil, destructive rule is what is required for humans to prosper. Jesus, as he is presented, says nothing that makes him good enough to judge us all. In fact, he says some pretty horrible stuff. For instance, "Slaves obey your masters, even the cruel ones. (Ephesians 6:5). 2. Original SinOriginal sin is the idea that all humanity is responsible for the actions of Adam and Eve, and it is because of them we go to Hell. Just as we don't punish the daughter for the crimes of the great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother, nor should we be punished for the "sins" of two people we never met.Also, what was their sin? Disobeying God? If the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge gave them the ability to know right from wrong, then how could they have known that it was wrong to disobey God? 3. HomophobiaLeviticus 18:22. ""You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination."4. Sexism1 Corinthian 14:34-35. "Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church."