The first mistake here is the assumption that hairless monkeys, only a few million years from screeching through the treetops and flinging shit at each other have the capacity to comprehend the nature, intentionality, and purpose of the universe. The propensity for humankind to anthropomorphize a creator and then reason backwards is the pinnacle of hubris. If people simply treated each other better we could dispense with all these campfire stories (which they are) and settle on a simpler working model that doesn’t just make people smug because they think they know something you don’t, and foment centuries of bloody war, instead of just accepting our predicament and making the best of it.
I don't know of any human who has these characteristics. The idea that God is an old man with a long gray beard is just a pale imitation that some artists have resorted to and most atheists utilize as a strawman for their faulty arguments.
Define and explain “treat each other better”.
Where does a concept of “ treat better” come from?
Morality? Expediency?
Atoms know no morality. Bacteria know it not, too.
Why humans?
Ego eimi
This sayers the Lord
The pinnacle of hubris is thinking that mankind is not in need of God
“If people simply treated each other better we could dispense with all these campfire stories (which they are) and settle on a simpler working model that doesn’t just make people smug because they think they know something you don’t, and foment centuries of bloody war, instead of just accepting our predicament and making the best of it.”
Except every time a society as a whole “dispenses with these campfire stories” as you call them, they become materialists and decide that just snuffing everyone who disagrees with them is a lot easier, and, since they don’t believe the campfire stories anymore, consequence free. So yeah, there’s that...