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Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.