So you read the Bible thru the eyes of the likes of Dawkins, who seems to have had an abusive father?
Perpetually angry,
And just where do you get this from? Those who wrote of knowing Him (as in the Psalms) and of Christ who manifested God in the flesh, or the accounts of His warnings and judgments after much long-suffering, upon perpetually wicked and rebellious people? Or a books like "The God delusion" by a seriously deluded man?
demands worship, demands compliance with His every whim or He'll destroy you forever.
Which "whim" is actually that which conforms to a static documents, unlike the objectively baseless moral basis for atheists. And which comprehensive obedience God only commands of those who enters covenant with Him, having found faith in Him as warranted based upon a level of evidence. In addition, all morally able souls are to basically worship the creator according to the light they have, vs. the created. And why would this be wrong if this requirement of choice of worship would be what is best for man, and testifies that one loves what is truly Good?
It is not wrong to require that one's god be the creator, if, 1. It was best for man, and revealed what kind of heart one had in so doing or not doing? If would only be wrong if God required it for His selfish gratification and ego, which is what the devil (the original liberal, and "share the wealth" victim entitlement promoter) and liberals seek.
In contrast, nowhere in Scripture is God shown having a need for anything (Acts 17:25 expressly says He does not), and actually would spare Himself grief if man did not exist. And God is always giving, giving and giving. ,
In addition, everyone worships/lives for/making something their ultimate object of spiritual affection and obedience/finds their ultimate security in something, either the Creator or the created.
But only the Creator is omnipotent and can never fail, and is perfect, thus it is right and good that one worship God over created things.
Thus those who reject God and choose false gods reveal their own iniquity. Atheists must thus find fault with God, but if they were perfect, all-wise and knowing and almighty then they could say negative things about those who rejected them, which reveals their love of the contrary. Its sin or Him.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (John 3:19-20)
John 1:
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
[[And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (John 3:19-20)]]
Funny how these men of evil turn around and blame God for everything when it’s THEIR acts that cause them to be evil- Acts which they LOVE to do because they love the darkness-
They make their choice, then blame God for not accepting them on THEIR terms? That’s like the petulant man on trial telling the judge how to judge, and getting angry at the judge when the judge does not obey the man