Some of the best people I know are Catholics and I think it's as arrogant to assert that religion is useless horseshit or actively evil as it is to be a zealot. Religion can give many people peace of mind and lead them to be better people; no view should be judged by the worst examples of its kind.
This would be a good conversation, and I'd be delighted to continue it on another thread or in DM's rather than de-rail this thread further.
I don't have all the answers I don't know everything, the denomination I follow is irrelevant because I'm not a perfect depiction of that domination. What I personally and most strongly believe in is God as the first cause, which I touched on earlier in this thread. Then through several other arguments and logical leaps and a bit of FAITH we get to the Christian God.
But your denomination helps us understand what you think the Christian God is. And the first cause has been long addressed elsewhere.
It's taught in freshman applied theology for historical interest, not practical use.
My interpretation of the will of God would be most closest to a deist, God created the world set up the rules to the board game, offered salvation with his Son and then just leaves it be. The Epicurean problem of evil is irrelevant as God has decided to let his children do as they want in the aquarium he created. Think about it like this, I can beat you up, at any time I'm incredibly strong and a good fighter, but I don't, I just don't beat you up. But I can. Does that suddenly make me weaker than you? Is because I chose to not do something to prove your action I'm suddenly not all powerful? No.
But your god is going to roast us all if we don't do exactly what he wants.
This is why knowing your denomination helps, because a Christian can't be a deitst. The Christian God is a pro active force in the world.
God is not all good in the concept of mortal's good, and I don't pretend to know the intentions of God. But he passed down a set of rules on how to live to achieve salvation with him. In the eyes of God who is eternal our life spans on this Earth are essentially meaningless because 80/oo is 0. In that sense the question of good and evil isn't applicable.
What you're essentially saying is that might makes right, it's good because God says so even if it doesn't make any sense.
What is the point of giving us senses if they're useless for leading us to the "correct" answer that we're going to be punished for not finding?
Kami could refer to shinto gods which were killable but when a japanese christian is praying they also say Kami and there is a large denomination of them there.
Only 1% of Japans population describes itself as Christian, and just over half (
509,000) of these are Catholics.
They're essentialy irrelevant in Japan, most of them living in Nagasaki.
A large proportion of Japanese Christians are middle class bilinguals, and will often switch in and out of English during Liturgy and prayer as very often (especially the Catholics due to a shortage of native preists) they're usually being ministered by non-japanese with a weak grasp of the language. But also purposefully to avoid nuances like that in the language since Kami is really very, very basic and not quite hitting the mark. Japanese really just doesn't have the vocabulary to even describe an Abrahamic deity, let alone enter into a discussion about Western Theology.
In any case, I still wouldn't use Kami because there and in the west, it conjures to mind the Shinto powers like Amaterasu rather than an all powerful creator. Powerful as Amaterasu was said to be, she was neither omnipotent nor omniscient.
....For fucks sake, she was tricked by
a mirror. 
