Why Would God Not Show Himself?

Shelley once wrote “If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced?”

Though I did not know the quote at the time, the principle behind it was one of the greatest motivators in my move away from Christianity which eventually led me to atheism.

Jews and Christians worship the same god, something fairly well known amongst Christian followers. But Islam serves the same god as well, something not well known amongst Christians which is highly surprising to me.

According to Christian dogma one must accept Jesus as their savior before they can get into heaven. This means that any Jew or Muslim will not enter into heaven based on the Christian bible. That must have been a bitch for the Jews, they invented the god and the book that would ultimately be used against them.

Why won’t the Jew or the Muslim get into heaven, regardless of how devout a follower they are? Because of Jesus. Because of one name, semantics, nothing more.

This means that the most pious, the most devout, the most righteous, the most reverent of Jews and Muslims will suffer hell, for all of eternity. It won’t matter that they followed the path of their faith, it won’t matter that they lived chaste lives, it won’t matter that they worshipped the exact same god to the best of their abilities and knowledge, giving him all honor and praise and glory. None of that will matter simply because of a name, semantics, nothing more.

Oddly, I continue to find, since my first question to my current search for evidence against Christianity, one common theme. It is Christianity itself that is its own downfall. The very bible itself is what makes the religion so ludicrous. It’s the act of requiring followers to accept semantics over philosophy that trips the faith up.

God is also guilty, he is referred to as omnipotent, loving, merciful, benevolent and so on, but this does not match up with what is seen here in real life.

Jews and Muslims suffering hell is a perfect point of how the bible and God contradict one another. If god is so loving and benevolent how could he sit there accepting the praises of Muslims and Jews, accepting their prayers, accepting that they have given their lives over to him only to punish them because they didn’t accept Jr.? What kind of being does that?

Why would all powerful, omnipotent god not move in their lives so that these people could accept Jesus? There have been men of all religions who led very good lives, better than many of us could ever claim, yet I am supposed to believe that god could not find the time to “save” these men by introducing them to Christ in a way that would ensure their move to Christianity?

I find this to make no sense and if the bible is true and there is a god and Jesus is required for entrance into heaven, then god is a very mean fellow and not worthy of anyone’s devotion or praise.