I don't "believe" in God, because there is no evidence leading me to do so. However, if there is a heaven and a hell then I still think I would go to heaven because I am a good person and if God exists, and God is perfect, then he should be reasonable enough to understand why I didn't blindly believe.
I think that religion is wrong to say "if you don't believe in God, you don't go to heaven". Why would God make this the case? Why would God punish a good person who likes to think things through logically and form opinions based on evidence rather than based on what he has been told by a book and a priest?
If God is so desperate for me to believe in him, and I'm not sure why he apparently is, then he should make available some evidence which suggests to my scientific brain that he might exist. Otherwise, when I have a mass of evidence from one side (science) and zero evidence from the other side (religion) why should I "believe" in God?
I'm not saying that I'm testing God and he should prove his existence as if he's on trial, but I am saying that you can't hide away in a cupboard all of your life and then come out when you're old and shout at people for not knowing you were definitely in there.
Correction - you can't hide away in a cupboard for most of your life, come out briefly, speak to a few people who have no way of proving you visited....then get get back out again and shout at their great-great-great-great....-grandchildren for thinking that maybe the cupboard is just an empty cupboard.
God, if he exists, should be perfect, he should be logical, he should be reasonable and therefore I see no reason why he would make the flawed arguments that the church and some religious people make in his name....blindly believe, don't question that believe, or burn in hell.
It's primitive and closed-minded.
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