Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
And supposedly your God created all of us. Sheesh He fails many before they "come of age".
Assuming that God exists, then I would say that he fails countless people in this world, including the countless innocent children who endure abuse and neglect, which is no fault of their own. Unfortunately, many of those children grow up to be abusers of their own children and even their spouses. Other times, these adults are so traumatized by the abuse and cruelty they suffered as children that they can barely function in life and suffer from PTSD, which results in severe depression and anxiety. The latter is what happened to me because I was one of those children. And like many of these hurting adults, I foolishly turned to God in sincere prayer, asking him to help me and not leave me alone in the darkness of depression and overwhelming sadness. But I received the same response from God as I received all those years ago when I endured abuse while I was growing up. I sincerely prayed to him then too and asked him to help me and protect me. And the response from God then was dead silence, as it was during all those years I prayed to him as an adult. To be quite honest, I'm ashamed to admit that it took me thirty years to finally come to my senses and accept the fact that God was never going to answer my prayers for emotional healing and that I had to save myself from the overwhelming depression and sadness that I felt if I wanted to continue to live for my husband and our children. I had to save myself, just as I did when I confronted my abusive older brother and mother when I was eighteen years old.
After years of desperate prayers to God, I finally found the courage within myself to confront my abusers when I was barely eighteen. God had nothing to do with it. I'm sad to say that I didn't admit that for almost thirty years. I was so brainwashed into believing in God that I could not see the forest for the trees. I know that I'm a prime example of how someone can be completely hoodwinked by a religion, or better yet, by Christianity. If my journey escaping Christianity has taught me anything, it's to be more understanding and compassionate toward other people who are going through their own exodus out of Christianity or are planning their own escape. I truly believe that the greatest and most damaging deception that humankind has ever perpetuated is that God, the alleged creator of this world and of mankind, is not morally responsible for the evil in the world and that the blame falls on humanity and the so-called devil. The second greatest and most damaging lie ever told, in my opinion, is that God loves humanity and that he is holy, just, and merciful.