Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
God is love!
"Do as we say or God will horribly torture you for all eternity"
Pardon me for no longer being a Christian
"God is love."
I know that is what Christians believe, but I, like many other former Christians, do not. And when I say many other former Christians, I'm referring to those in my survivors of childhood abuse support group who, like me, suffered abuse at the hands of their Christian parents and had prayed to the biblical God to protect and save us from the abuse. But our prayers went unanswered, and each of us still suffered abuse (physical, sexual, psychological, and spiritual) at the hands of our Christian parents or other Christian relatives for several years while we were growing up. In my opinion, I think it's quite misleading, even intended to be deceptive at times, for Christians to say that God is love. I, for one, reject that and see the biblical God as a sadistic and psychotic tyrant.
In my opinion, the biblical God is like a narcissistic and abusive father who only "loves" his children when they do or say precisely what he wants. And his children hope that if they don't make him angry, he won't hurt them, but they're unsure because he has a violent temper and is known to lash out when he is angry. So if they disobey him and upset him, then there will be hell for them to pay. That isn't a healthy relationship founded on unconditional love and respect, but rather on consistent fear and mistrust. It's an abusive relationship. According to the Bible, God is capable of hatred in addition to wrath and jealousy, and he committed global genocide. To be quite honest, I don't believe that anyone should derive their understanding of morality from the Bible.