Prosperity theology

Some evangelical Christians say that God is beyond anything you can imagine. OK, I accept that argument. They also say that life is so extremely complex and mysterious that it can not possibly have come about through random chemical reactions. I can understand this idea as well. However, where are all their extreme right-wing political views coming from, their love of the arms industry, their love of money, and success? Where in the New Testament do they find such ideas?

Agnosticism

There are so many different ideas about God; one is crazier than the other. There are many different kinds of Christianity, many different kinds of Hinduism, and many different kinds of Islam. All believe they have it right, and the others have got it wrong. But this fact does not prove there is no God; that belief in God is a delusion. Maybe there is a God somewhere, but nobody knows anything about him (or her). Maybe God is, in reality, an alien civilization that studies us as if we were some kind of laboratory rats.

God

God ordered the Israelites to exterminate the people of Canaan. He ordered the Crusaders to slaughter the people in Jerusalem and the Americans to invade Iraq. He has persuaded thousands of selected Muslims to blow themselves and their fellow human beings into pieces.

Intelligent design

If God created this world, why did he make it so horrible? Cancer, ALS, leprosy... natural disasters, excruciating pain, and suffering?

Perhaps a good and benevolent God created this world, but evil forces toppled him.

Maybe the world created itself - by chance; perhaps there is no designer.

In the beginning, there was nothing. Did the world also create God, the devil, and all the angels in the Big Bang?