Did you know that the biblical “God” was once merely a wandering desert tribe’s god of war?
After casting off their other gods “for I AM a jealous god” they were “chosen” by the one that remained.
Have you heard the story of Sophia? Mother of Christ and the malformed stillbirth yahweh?
The ungraced “one most high”? Who’s peak could never extend past the physical morass into the spiritual pleuroma?
These are just my thoughts, but the story fed to us at mass through the cannibal rituals led by pedophiles reeks of control and contractual complacency (I include all Churches under this description, out of fairness, some have been more exposed than others)
Why must there be a god, much less the specific god of a tribe of wandering desert nomads whose descendents rape our nation's daughters to manipulate our nation's leaders into sending our nation's sons to fight and die for them?
There you go again. You’ll have to think rationally if you want to get to the truth. This is a philosophical question of why God has to exist, then you can get to which God makes the most sense. I recommend Frank Turek and William Lane Craig. They do a great job summing up so you won’t have to do any real work here.
So you can't explain why there must be a god in your own words.
Sure I can. But I don’t think you’ll go along.
So here are just a few arguements why there must be a God. You will find that there are literally no good arguments to prove that there is no God.
You have no evidence that something came from nothing, that there was ever nothing and not always something. Nor do you have any evidence that what produced something is a god, let alone any specific god such as the one imagined by wandering sand people whose descendants rape kids to blackmail our political leaders.
Your definition of evil is subjective. You don't perfectly agree with anyone on what good or evil means. If there was a single objective definition of evil handed down by a benevolent all knowing and all powerful god, there would be no question as to what's evil or what's good. But there are massive disagreements on what's good and evil. Today most westerners think raping a 12 year old is wrong. Most middle easterners, and even many of the European ancestors of the modern west, consider 12 a ripe age for a girl to get married and think it's not rape to fuck your 12 year old wife. If raping a 12 year old was objectively evil, there would not be this disagreement between middle east and west nor between modern and ancient west. You can believe subjectively that raping 12 year olds is wrong because of the harm it does to innocent developing kids - and I do - but that doesn't make it a fundamental law of nature.
You're the product of billions of years of slaughter and non-consensual reproduction. Most of human history is a story of both large and small scale violence, including violence committed by many of your ancestors. Some of those wars were subjectively good because they helped spread human civilization and improved the human gene pool (feel free to disagree on whether that makes them good or not) and others were bad because they destroyed civilization and degraded the gene pool. Violence is not even inherently good or evil, so what do you think is?
4-5. Huge logical leaps. You don't know the universe isn't infinite, we haven't seen nearly all of it yet. You don't know how the universe began or even if it has a set beginning. The universe could be cyclical, expanding from the big bang and then contracting again a hundred billion years later until the conditions are right for a new big bang.