People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.
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.
Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
God is no respecter of persons or causes.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.