But when you think about all the gods of old including old testament God, they were all assholes, meddling in human affairs was their thing and thus gives us stories, fables, and myths on how we thought the universe works.  So when I hear about the misery going on in the world I just think nothing really has changed since ancient times and everything is on par for the course.  A couple thousand years later and we still have to resort to some omnipotent being having the answers and reason for everything at best frustrates me but I'm firm believer people have to find out on their own.

Lewis Black has a great quote  years ago and I paraphrase: "In the Old Testament, God was all about punishing people and having them feel his wrath to keep them in line, but with the New Testament he somehow went through an anger management class and now he loves you".

...never mind that they have barely a passing knowledge of what their religion actually says. It's "something something Jesus" and "something something eat a crumb of bread" and "something something heaven." Seriously, if most church-going Jesus lovers had to take a test on their faith, they would flunk.