The Bible proves God is evil.

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The bible implements social Darwinism.

That isn't a valid reason for god being evil. He might have killed them but they live forever in the kingdom of heaven.

You are going to have to find a more valid reason for the bible being evil.

This story was explained on South Park also.

First, they believe in an invisible friend.

Now it's an invisible enemy.

What will the bible-bashers think up next?

BIBLE IS EVIL this one I guess.

Nothing invisible about it. Not in my view at least. God is
everywhere, and everything. Happens to be evil too, but
that's ok - gives me some purpose.

Is Job the guy who lets the village men rape his daughters in order to protect the angel hiding in his house from being gang-raped?

E2A: and they let children read this?

The bible doesn't prove anything. Logic proves it.

The bible also calls God one of the worst of sinners. "Wrath" is one of the seven deadly sins, and in multiple places in the bible it talks about "God's wrath."

I don't believe in God.

-SpaceCase

Awwwwwwwwww

G-d sucks eggs

God is just a lonely loser who made us and tells us that because he made us he somehow has the right to tell us we must love him and have a relationship with him.

He did not even mention his own problems, hale_bopp (nice Eye of Sauron by the way). His issue is with the apparently completely arbitrary nature of the God portrayed in the book of Job. Loss of children and having his wife tell him to curse God and die (well she had lost her offspring as well and her husband was afflicted with boils) do not appear to be adequately compensated by a restoral and indeed increase of his livestock, though new children are also born. His three best friends are convinced that he must be really evil to have merited all these exemplary punishments from God, whose answer when it comes does not appear to address the rather reasonable questions that Job and the reader are left with. And the problem of evil and suffering more generally IS a serious issue, which the book of Job does not appear to remedy exactly.

Elsewhere in the Old and New Testament another issue many people have is with the harshment of God's judgement (at least preferable to amoral and arbitrary suffering some might argue). It is a distortion to separate Old and New Testament in a dichotomy of justice and mercy, law and grace, works and faith etc. These aspects are spread through both Testaments (hence my wrath with Flagg in another thread over his remarks about the alleged difference between the Islamic, Christian and Jewish concepts of God; the Qur'an similarly combines mercy and justice (some may balk at this word here).

Within one book of the Tanak (Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim, "law/instruction, prophets and writings") also known as the Hebrew scriptures or Old Testament (I will try to avoid the latter term from here on in as it may offend Jewish readers) Yeshayahu/Isaiah words of mercy and judgement sit side by side within the same chapter, even sometimes the same verse. To begin with the first chapter:

Hear O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD/YHWH has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
The ox knoweth its owner, and the ass (donkey) its master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider.
Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they have gone away backward.
Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint. (Isaiah 1:2-5)

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil.
Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool
if ye be willing and obedient, ye shall see the good of the land. (Isaiah 1:16-19).

Actually within each of those passages there is not really any absolute dichotomy between mercy and justice. There is a passionate concern for social justice as well as religious fidelity to the LORD evident in the pages of this book. More later; for now I shall say that in the context of that time or our own, delayed judgement would not be merciful, it would be apathetic and callous indifference to human suffering and evil to allow oppression to continue indefinitely.

Actually, I have decided to close with

In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the earth:
Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance."

Either that or over-confident to a fault. Or just sooooooooooo bored.

You forgot to state what your conclusion was. Also, your assumption concerning religion drilled into one or being of a religious family does not appear sound. Some would become atheists in direct reaction to either background, some would come to be persoanlly persuaded of the truth of what they had been raised to believe (or convert to a different faith); conversely, one might come to believe in God (or other deities) without having been brought up in a religious background at all. To be fair though, you did add the option "whatever" as a catch all term for quite a wide range of reasons that do not come under the two that you specifically mentioned. Ah well.