Psalm 14:1 (King James Version)
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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I can't opt out. Can I just live my life and die?
I reject bible god but I don't reject the idea of divinity of some sort. I'm just too good, smart and kind to accept the shit written in the bible. He's not worthy of my endorsement. It clearly works for many, but I don't look up to those people as critically thinking humans. More or less the sad, embarrassing products of indoctrination and fear.
It behaves like a cult forbidding doubt and chastising those for having it. That's a behavior liars and tyrants adhere to. Truth welcomes scrutiny and doubt because in the genuine, sincere pursuit of it, if it is truth, it's reinforced in the end. It's the journey to that truth that makes it unbreakable. Discouraging doubt discourages thought. This isn't kind and it's not an inherent attribute of Truth. It is however, one of deceit.
It's like the faith is scared of something. But that's just my perspective.
I'm incompatible with the concept of faith. People use faith to believe things that are not true which just proves it's unreliable metric for the determination of truth. One is either convinced or not. The best way to get to truth? Logic.
I'm good. I was a part of that flock for over 25 years and know it well. None of it panned out for me and many others like me. We're good humans but apparently your god's ego can't take our lack of belief and will resort to violence because we were wrong about a lot of things, but that one thing simply isn't allowed. It's not a behavior problem it's a thought police problem which brings us full circle back to it being tyranny. There is no opting out, there is no living MY life. I'm just here to learn a lesson and suffer from it forever.
That's true love.