God respects some people's wish to be eternally evil.
He won't turn them into kindly puppets nor annihilate them - thus robbing them of their liberty and wish to be eternally evil (whatever the cost).
The existence of the universe is visible proof of God's existence.
Deism is thus the default position.
The Atheist universe - existing magically of its own accord and functioning rationally (and holding itself in existence) similarly by magical means - is more absurd than any religion ever...
"The church is broken" ?
Yes, the Reformation broke it. Thanks for your powerful pro-Catholic argument.
Jesus knew that people would muck-up His religion; but He had to found it nonetheless. Was doing nothing an option for Him ?
The absolute goodness of Jesus as a guiding star, has always...
No human being is an entirely good character.
The Bible says of itself: "The written word kills; it is the Spirit that gives life."
Christianity can only be understood with the help of the Church's teachings and under the inspiration of God's Holy Spirit.
The Bible also says (1 John): "God is...
So that's why the Catholic Church insists that Christianity can be proved true by Reason ?
So that's why Galileo and many other scientists have been devout Christians ?
No; leaving aside the fiasco over Galileo - and USA Fundies - Christianity has never opposed science.
Critical thinking...
So which interpretation is correct ?
That's why you need the Catholic Church to act as umpire and authority.
Protestantism melts down into n-thousand groups.
All political and religious groups believe their way is the best.
All parents instruct their children - and have a duty to do so.
Christianity invented modern science - the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century was led by Christians and could have arisen only in a Christian civilisation.
But only Christianity has transformed the world.
E.g. modern Science and the concept of Progress are by-products of the Judaeo-Christian tradition and of that alone.
If God sent people to Hell, what you say would be correct.
But He doesn't - people go to Hell (and stubbornly remain there) in order to be eternally evil.
The fires of Hell come from inside the evil hearts of the local inhabitants.
"Perfectly moral lives without Christianity" - you mean respectable, calculating, sensible, law-abiding lives.
Since kindly, helpful people are even rarer outside Christianity than within it.
You doubt this ? - ask any person who is poor or burdened, and they will confirm it.