Baptists, sheesh, man, they are the worst of the lot. But Roman Catholics are nipping on their heels. And modern evangelicals are awful, too.

Most modern representations of Christianity are awful. Your word choice of evil is also not wrong, in many cases.

But it's the humans that are messing it all up, not God. I don't happen to think that our brief moments here on Earth count for much in our overall timeline, but if this was all I thought there was, this hard, difficult life, then I would want to put my head in the oven about every other day.

At the risk of pissing you off even more, I'll argue that there is a holier spirit residing inside you than just about any evangelical, Roman Catholic, or Baptist practitioner you'll ever meet. And that spirit inside of you is outraged. For good reason.

The blinders are off. That can't be a bad thing. What are you doing with your anger? Doing things like pushing for LGBTQ rights. Fundamentalists might hate you for that, but it's a very Christian thing to do. Jesus didn't hang out with the emperor, after all. He hung out with the most oppressed people of his day.

So that holy spirit is inside you, whether you like it or not. And if you read about how old Greek translations worked (I recommend Sarah Ruden if you ever wish to explore) you'll find that God isn't a He, it's more a he/her/him/it/they, depending on which Greek you are reading, according to linguists who know a lot more about it than I (i.e., Sarah Ruden, among others).

How he/she/they formally represents itself to you is impossible for me to say but your diatribe is proof that the spirit is alive, well, and, especially, kicking in you. Emphasis on the kicking part.

Your anger is obvious and warranted. But wow, the passion. And the absolute knowledge of just how wrong the things you've seen go on around you in the name of religion is proof of your own connection to a formal presence of goodness in the universe.

I had a girlfriend whose stepdad was a church leader at a Baptist church. I can't even describe the things he did to her. She woke up screaming on many nights. Imagine sleeping soundly next to someone, then a terrifying shriek wakes you up. I'd be asleep, and jump half out of bed, woken by my girlfriend's blood-curdling screams.

A fundamentalist preacher, of course, would say, "you were sleeping out of wedlock? Shame on you!" That's the same fundamentalist preacher who rails against all manner of sexual behavior (while partaking in his own behind his own daughter's closed bedroom door), none of which was preached by the dude who matters most.

Really, Jesus didn't really care much about sexuality. I think he thought we kind of overvalued it, but that's about it. He kind of teased a woman for having like, five husbands, but he hardly rejected her. He didn't say one recorded word about homosexuality.

Religious hypocrisies are everywhere. And you're right - so much of the bloviating about love is hypocritical garbage.

That was really the point of my story. My point was that most people, including Christians, don't know Christianity. They don't follow its ONE tenet: to love other people. Blowing off that one tenet is an almost universal strain throughout the world of practicing Christianity. Instead, it's been all about dictating exactly how people should live, especially in regards to sexuality, which, again, Christ didn't talk about.

And it is a completely cherry-picked morality. Trump is okay. Being gay is not. It makes no sense if one looks at it objectively in any way at all.

During Christianity's 2,000 years, there isn't much to show for the basic tenets that Jesus Christ taught.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that part of you that is insulted by the very existence of religion, and its hypocrisy, will emerge one day in interesting and surprising ways. I'm not suggesting you'll become a Christian, but you will find inner peace because your soul demands it. I don't know you, but I am pretty certain of this.

I'm a late bloomer myself. I gave the finger to God on a regular basis, but he just doesn't give a shit. He reeled me in anyway.

So I can't argue with you, because you're right. It's all bullshit.

I stand by the subtitle of the story, that humans promote an angry God. But I don't believe myself in an angry God. I believe in the one source that makes your outrage possible. But I don't believe he's angry about it, because the other tenet that is taught - and forgotten consistently, is forgiveness.

I don't believe in any of this stuff for logical reasons. It's all magic to me, supernatural and impossible to describe with equations, even though I believe science is a language of God.

There is no science behind crying at witnessing an act of extreme kindness. Or the grief of an unfair death.

When I forgive someone who has screwed me over, I feel better. Why is that? It's not logical. It doesn't even seem human. Our first instinct is to hit them over the head with something heavy, right? So why does it feel better when I forgive someone?

Most fundamentalists would brand my approach towards Christianity as heresy. They'd get all worked up, throw some Ephesians my way, accuse me of false teaching, then go screw an altar boy.

So I'm also not fooled by it. But I know what lives inside my heart, and I happen to believe it lives inside all of us. It's all very personal, and I think it finds its way to everyone eventually, even if it isn't until we are on our deathbed.

One last thing - there is a difference between your atheism and those who just think it's cool to be atheist. Yours is powered by real anger, mistrust, and disgust. That's real. It's good to give it voice, in my opinion.

Thanks for taking the time to write the long comment. Good luck to you.