The Rant Institute

 Evangelism is the belief that "believers" have an obligation to tell you about their religious brand - and more to save themselves from hellfire for failing to do so as they've been "commanded" to do (so much for "free will") than for whether you accept their "beliefs" to save yourself from hellfire ( because if you roast for all eternity for failing to "believe' what their selling, that's your problem, not theirs) - but the onus to convince you of the necessity and validity of those "beliefs" is up to you. 

 Requiring people to "love" and accept Jesus as your "savior" before they die for fear of deserving to be cast into hell if they don't is like requiring a fetus to "love" and fully accept their parents before they are born - regardless of what kind of parents them may be - for fear of deserving to be cast straight from the womb into an oven if they don't.

  If God is all-powerful, why does he need a blood sacrifice to forgive humanity for using the gift of "free will" to disobey commands issued from an institutional Church - a Church that often disobeys those very same commands?

 No Christian or any other monotheist can explain, or has ever offered to explain, why God feels a need or desire to blame or "punish" human imperfection, especially given the fact that said "God" designed us to not only be so imperfect, but gave us the free will to use our imperfections as freely as we wish! Indeed, if we were all "perfect" in the same way Jesus was, we would all act like perfectly obedient robots, even unto being crucified despite being both perfect and thus also perfectly innocent! In other words, our diversity and creativity are only possible BECAUSE WE ARE IMPERFECT! How is God punishing us then not like a kid smashing his failed science project to pieces out of frustration that it didn't work as "perfectly" as he'd hoped it would, even though the point of the experiment was to create something that was both capable and "free" to do and become whatever it wanted or liked?  That's like creating an AI mac...

  Few Americans know that Thomas Jefferson wrote, in a letter to a nephew: “Question with boldness even the existence of a God.” Or that Albert Einstein said: “I do not believe in a personal God, and I have never denied this, but have expressed it clearly.” Or that Mark Twain wrote in his journal: “I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious — unless he purposely shuts the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.” Or that Thomas Paine wrote in  The Age of Reason : “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” Or that Clarence Darrow said, in a 1930 speech in Toronto: “I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.”