What sort of deific being demands:

[3catwoman3]

28. "I cannot see how religion, in general, has improved how people treat each other very much."

It hasn't, as far as I can tell. There are actions that are right, just because they are right, and actions that are wrong, just because they are wrong. Not because some book or "holy" person says so.

I never took my kids to church, and neither of them have ever read any version of "the" bible. We talked a lot, while they were growing up, about being a decent and caring human being, and the idea of the world being a better place because of some way you contribute to it. They have grown up to be fine young men, and my husband and I are regularly complimented on how they turned out. And all without any formal religious indoctrination.

God is totally created in man's image, IMO. Why would a superior and allegedly loving being need the worship of us puny humans, and seek revenge upon us if we are not sufficiently awed and cowed? Makes "Gawd" sound like Donald Trump - in need of constant attention and praise, and pissed off and vengeful if he/she/it doesn't get it.