The moral code of the christian religion is violent and hateful.

I could, if I wanted to, made several points of how scientific facts discredit Christianity's credibility. Instead I have decided to treat it as a philosophy, treat "god" as a real or hypothetical entity, and then proceed to criticize his moral code. You have made some very good comments, sir. I am glad to know that I am debating someone with an open mind, which looks into less literal teachings, but into more general ways of living. I would like to stress that I am not attacking Christ himself, but Christianity in my arguments. Jesus Christ was a great man (who did not claim divinity). He used his influence for great things. I once saw a bumper sticker that said something like: "god, I like your Christ very much, I do not like your Christians". I think what this was saying was that Christ taught valuable lessons, but those lessons had been distorted, twisted, and muddled, to be used for more sinister purposes. Christians (not all Christians) have used their religion to justify horrible things all throughout history. I could bring up several examples from the past as well as the present (the crusades, Salem witch trial). I deeply respect your ability to dis-attatch yourself from certain parts of the bible that you do not like. I was afraid (as I mentioned in my opening argument) that I would have some belligerent person who was a complete slave to the bible. So far, you have agreed with my concerns: such as children's fear of hell, and such. This really is my only problem with the bible: Heaven and hell. It seems so useless to me. Why can't we just…exist? Why the "good" must be rewarded and the "bad" be punished. If a criminal is to steal the possessions from someone's home (referring to "thou shall not steal), it is simply that, him lifting and transporting an object. You said: "How can we, as mere mortals, use man made language and words to describe the omnipotent, omniscient power commonly referred to as God?" Why should god make such empty, trivial rules about such an imagined thing as a possession? While I am not for the idea of stealing, it seems that God's mind is that of a Human. But maybe I do not understand Christian's idea of their religion: tell me; do you take god literally? Or is he just a metaphor for the laws of reality? All life is holy. We observe miracles constantly: the flying of a bird, the working of a mind, the drifting of a cloud, the ever flowing movement of a river. All life should be treated as "good". Love life and find peace in death. Everything keeps existing; events keep passing by. None of it is evil. None of it is good. It simply is. The images of "the fiery pits of hell" are motivated from very intense feelings of hate. Nothing decides what happens to us, not even us. One event triggers another event and so on. There is no free will, not even in god. The god that I believe in does not have a mind, he does not have freewill. He is everything. He is simple and instinctual always following the same rules. All is holy. Nothing is punishable. Hell is motivated by anger. Anger is a psychological Human emotion. The process of minds making decisions to act through psychological processes is holy. You may or may not have heard of the Taoist concept: Pu ("the uncarved block" in English). This simply means that things are beautiful and holy in their natural state, unaltered and unconditioned. We must follow these instincts to which your god (who I am treating hypothetically) instilled upon us. The bible then tells us against masturbation and recreational sex. Many of our instincts and natural reactions to things are against your moral code. We do not have free will we should not be punished. Your brain is an object. Your process of thinking is a chain reaction of causes and events just like anything else in the world. It is cause and event just like a tree falling over when hit by lightning is cause and event. Should the tree be punished?