 I don't know why anyone would want to believe in the Christian religion because in Genesis and Exodus, God is portrayed as the most fucked up person ever. What I got from Genesis and Exodus is that God is a narcissistic, egotistical, that does whatever he can to make sure everyone knows his name and knows how scary he is, and big and scary, and evil, and he has so much power. Hey man, can I share something with you? You accuse God of being an egotistical narcissist. I've heard others accuse him of being prideful or self-centered, but let's think about it for a second. When you're prideful, egotistical, narcissistic, self-centered, why is that a bad thing? Well, one aspect is that the attention and praise that you're pouring on yourself is misguided. You are not the most important thing in the universe, therefore the hyperattention on yourself is not justified. But God literally is the most important being in the universe. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the Almighty Creator. So when God tries to get our attention, it's not only right, but it's also a blessing to us because he's pulling our attention, he's reorienting our attention off of lesser things onto him who is the best thing. Our gaze reorients onto his glory, his beauty. When we try to get the attention for ourselves, we're revealed as a fraud when our flaws are exposed. However, when God demands our attention, we are met with an all-consuming love that does not disappoint. Follow for more.