they described him as "tall" and said "you just described hitler"

Then why are we punished for using our free will to not believe?

Yep, 'free will'.
Like that flood he sent.
Or plagues.
Or intervening with the course of humanity at all.

If there is a cosmic being like the christian god, anything it does to humans will cause us not to have free will. Because we are no longer truly free.

As I always say about free will, my mother gives me free will, but she would still stop me from murdering a person, which makes her a better role model than god.

Why did He not just kill him in some freak accident instead?

After all, He does it all the time to perfectly innocent people.

Also if God is indeed all-powerful then free will is simply an illusion as He knows everything we do before we do it. He just places stimuli in front of us that causes us to act certain ways...

it doesn't matter if he knows what will happen what matters is that YOU don't know what will happen. you can do as you please. God already knows what will please you, though but what does it matter?

I always see that kind of excuse as utter bullocks.. If God exists or not doesnt ever matter. If he does exist according to the bible, then i wouldnt respect him, and thus it doesnt matter to me. If he has a divine plan that will come true, then praying won't matter. If we're just humans doing what humans want, whats the point of a god? If the threat of hell can make a good person, then it's not really free will, and if said person was genuinely good, said person wouldnt need religion. If the rules of going to hell is according to the bible, just about everyone would be there, and thus it doesnt matter.
It's not like he's a CelestAI trying to satisfy everyones values through friendship or ponies over anything. He doesnt matter one way or the other

Well, that's the thing; if you are not genuinely good, then it's hypocrisy. The way I see it, you don't have to do good acts simply just because some people don't feel like doing them but it's a matter of not being evil, of not killing, raping and such. My best friend is atheist but i don't think he'll go to hell because he is a good person and has never purposely harmed anyone. Now back to the omniscient thing. Maybe my name is written on the book of life or maybe it is not but i don't know, so i have to be good.

If you think he can go to heaven, then so can you. You don't need this religion. You don't need god. Just don't be a dick, and try to make earth your heaven, cause theres nothing after death. You aren't a dumb person, so just shed the false beliefs already. You are perfectly able of being a good person without it.
Also, everything we are is actually beyond our own control. It's like a game, where even if you know its a game, you're still playing by the rules. But there's no God involved with it. This is just matter and life interacting and changing people, lots of coincidences and things done on purpose, shaping everything we know. I just wanna see if i can bump into some people and change their mind a little to the better, so religion can fade away a little bit sooner

I believe in a God for my own reasons. Also don't call people's beliefs "false." People have their beliefs for a reason, be it for being raised with them or their own reasons, whatever they might be.

It just bothers me to see a perfectly good and notdumb person hold onto whatever was chosen by everything around you. It would seem that you're perfectly content with it for some reason, so go along if you dont want to change. Its just way too often that its something simply and directly bestowed upon a person

I understand you for one part but it really bothers you? My beliefs don't affect anyone else. My friend's lack of belief in a deity doesn't bother me at all. In fact, we very seldom bring up religion when we talk and when we do we never fight over anything. His lack of religion doesn't affect me at all.

I just can't see why people get annoyed by it unless they are like those westboro retards

Well, they can still insult people. I, for instance, am insulted when I hear about a "perfect, all-powerful" God that is perfectly fine with me suffering. It's kind of an insult.

It kinda does, but rest assured, you arent really bothering me. It's just the fact that religion is taking so long to fade away and be replaced by common human decency and knowledge. I'm impatient. I wanna see some action and change on the world stage, something interesting, something big

that just shows how different people can be. I actually like people from all over the world believing different things. Idk why, i guess i like the diversity and culture that comes with them.

also, thank you for not being on of those asshole atheists

I find religion utterly fascinating in the way its used as a master placebo, fear, control, hope, whatever, and how diverse and complicated these fantastic tales gets, and how it's still managing to cling to people in this age of knowledge and reason. I just like knowledge and reason, and think it should make way for it, already
And I'm glad that you're not an asshole, either. Hurray for common human decency

>Thinks he understands quantum mechanics
>Doesn't understand that the chemicals in our brains make decisions for us

See the final sentence of my post and google determinism to fully understand what I'm talking about anon.

And if God isn't a hitman, then He just kills innocent people for the fun of it, even though He knows He may be sending them to Hell for living lives He placed them in.

And I'm totally for quantum mechanics and would say I have an decent 'understanding' of it, I'm just arguing from a faith-based perspective as a pissed-off atheist.

Exactly, why dont people know this. It just makes me sad.