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<p>I don’t understand this approach. Why would God love the world so much? Wouldn’t that make God very narcissistic? What would make God love his own creation any more or less?</p>
<p>Furthermore, why would God loving the world imply his wanting humans to love him back? Loving something isn’t necessarily a symmetric notion. I love Rachel McAdams, but I do think it’s a bit unreasonable to require that she loves me back. On top of that, what does God really get out of us loving him? What’s his motivation here? And why does he appear so needy, for someone who is beyond human emotions? </p>
<p>Even skipping over all this, most Christians describe God as good and loving. But if God cares more about our having free will so that we can worship and love him, “goodness” must not be a very high priority for him. </p>
<p>Ultimately, God is responsible for the evil actions of his creations. If God creates someone, and gives them the power to perform evil upon others, God is responsible for the evil behavior performed. I’m not sure I can create a sufficiently apt analogy, but I will try this with a pet. A dog owner might allow his pet to behave in any way he wants. That is his option as the pet owner. On the other hand, when the dog mauls the neighboring three year old, the responsibility lies entirely on the owner, and not the pet. The pet was simply behaving in the way it was enabled to by the owner. </p>
<p>Similarly, victims of evil on earth should blame God - as it’s God’s decision to allow for the existence of evil that allows them to be victims.</p>
<p>None of this, to me, is evidence against the existence of God. But I do believe that if God exists, he is certainly not a loving or good God. He might be an uninvolved God, or even worse, a sadistic and cruel God, but definitely neither loving or good. At least for this reason, I think we should reject belief the Christian God.</p>