An anthropomorphic God who lives out there somewhere and operates as a divine hit man , killing some, saving some. Obviously if God saved some, that same God brutally slaughtered dozens of others. What an outrageous insult to human intelligence. Assuming a functioning brain. Such a doctrine is not only unworthy, but fatal, and has done incalculable harm to human spiritual progress.
FEAR is the parent of religion, superstition, bigotry and cruelty.
Our primitive ancestors stood in FEAR before the awesome forces of nature. Thunder and earthquakes terrified them. They sought to gain the favor of such supernatural power. Today, in our orthodox Judeo-Christian tradition we are still laden with the debris of those archaic, superstitious images. Any religion that stubbornly clings to a traditional theology hopelessly at odds with the scientific knowledge of an enlightened age is doomed to sink even deeper into stagnant superstitions, as well as spiritual bankruptcy.