Reading some of the above commentaries, God is blamed for the evil men have done, when given free choice! Or if you will, an ability to choose between good and evil?

Folk with evil in their hearts who succumb to that influence? Will always be able to justify with C.R.A.P., like God demanded it of me?

In today's understanding, we would say such a person hearing voices coming from thin air, was psychotic! And given no evidence to the contrary? How can anyone say otherwise?

Clearly, it's extremely disconcerting to hear voices coming from thin air! But even more so, when you understand what they're saying.
Alan B.

"Yes, wouldn’t it be much better if there is (sic) no God".

Yes, if you wanted to be like all the Third World shitholes that haven't had Christianity as the basis of democracy. All the wrongs done by people are down to people: not a God, nor Christianity.

If you believe in a God, or need a God, you also need to be aware that there's a lot of difference between the Christian one, the Muslim one, and all the idols some people call gods.

As for the people who harp on the Old Testament as sure proof of Christian bastardry, and even the bits of the New Testament they don't like - those people need to know that it was all written by humans, well after the death of Christ. People who hate Christianity are always going to cite the bad - the stuff that any right-minded person objects to - never the good.

Well the author has taken a text completely out of context - the purpose of the Bible is to teach us values, not science or history. In particular, the creation story of Genesis 1 (along the first three verses of Genesis 2) is meant as a hymn for the Sabbath, explaining the value in keeping the 4th commandment, carving regular time off work to rest and contemplate, no matter how successful (or otherwise) we might be at work:

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God, in it you shall not do any work... For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."

It seems that the author finds this particular lesson difficult:

"The particular issue with which this writer has long questioned, however, is sleep. We sleep each night about a third of the day. In a lifetime of 75 or so years, that means we sleep for 25 years, What a waste!"

Resting is not a waste. Keeping a good balance between work and rest is so important for one's well-being. Had people been observing the 4th commandment and curbed their ambitions, perhaps we wouldn't have had that many wars!

Imagine the number of people killed in the name of one religion or the other.
Their beliefs have absolutely no foundation.
All their deaths revolved around who has the best Sky fairy.
There is not on single piece of evidence to support the existence of such a sky fairy, nor the existence of any prophet or saints.
A total waste of human life.

I just wonder why God created stupidity & enough people to adhere to it !

God created stupidity because he created man in his image. It's pretty stupid to destroy almost all life on earth because he didn't like what some humans were doing. It's pretty stupid to tell Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. Since they didn't have the knowledge of good and evil they would have no idea it was wrong to disobey god. The God of the Bible is a most unreasonable fellow. However, he is a creation of human imagination. Those who wrote the Bible could have created a reasonable god, but they chose not to. Reason may take second place to fiction.